A terrible story that ends in joy for this Chinese woman, who after having experienced 26 miscarriages finally had the happiness of becoming a mother… But at what cost?
After the rain comes the good weather… At least that’s what a Chinese woman can say to herself who had the happiness of becoming a mother a few days ago, after suffering 26 miscarriages. You read correctly: 26. If a natural termination of pregnancy is a terrible moment for a pregnant woman, no one can imagine what it can be like to live through it 26… A terrible ordeal related by magic mom, which uses information from the press release of Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in Changsha City, China. We thus discover that a patient suffering from uterine adhesions was able to become pregnant in February 2022 following an operation carried out in the establishment. She gave birth last week by caesarean section, giving birth to a baby girl when she was “almost lost hope“, after having seen 26 pregnancies end early. If the woman therefore saw her “dream of becoming a mom come true“, his story was not at all unanimous. And for good reason, as reported by the newspaper South China Morning Post, on Weibo (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter), many people were shocked by the situation, in which they saw a fierceness related to the pressure to become a mother in the country. An unhealthy obsession for many who “takes over life”. “I don’t see how it’s worth promoting this. Everyone should respect their own life first“, wrote a reader in the commentary of the article. Another could not help but ironically on the fact that this sad record could appear in the Guinness Book…
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A declining birth rate in China
After decades of imposing the one-child policy, China ended up lifting this diktat on January 1, 2016, to finally allow families to have two children, then three with a new decree dating from 2021. And for good reason, in recent years China has faced a steep decline in the birth rate. The current zero-Covid policy and the increase in infertility cases have a lot to do with it. This is enough to alert the authorities of the country who are putting significant pressure on the population, and in particular on women, to have children. And you, what do you think of this mother’s story?