28.The great-grandson of a narco

Guioconda's brother, Don Gracia's granddaughter, the owner of the drug district, on the other side of the Tonchigue River, came to see Dr. Máxima at 7 am, to attend to his sister, who was in pain. Of childbirth.

The fact that the doctor slept in town, which the doctors at the Ministry of Health sub-center did not, was good, because other doctors did not attend deliveries, and if she did they would charge a lot of money.

Máxima was about to go for a run on the beach to do her aerobics and yoga. but she took what she might need to attend to 'Guiocoda, the blood pressure monitor, the stethoscope, the thermometer, the gloves, suture thread, anesthetic, disinfectant, garters to tie the umbilical cord

They arrived in one of the trimotor, which was abundant in the town. The billiard was closed, they entered through a side door, into the room where the midwife was already, with all the old and childbirth women of the family.

After the exam, being the first time, she realized that it would take at least 8 hours before starting the real labor.

"Are you sure she wants to give birth at home?" She asked the young woman who was barely 18 years old again.

- Yes, doctor, I don't like how they treat women in labor in the hospital. The nurses are very rude from the moment you arrive, and so are the doctors.

-Maxima had accompanied her father and her mother in childbirth and with midwives. There was actually a big difference between home birth and hospital birth. At the women in labor, the nurses and doctors yelled at them, terrorized them, to make more effort, at the time when the child was crowning, about to leave, then, when the child came out, there was too much artificial light, Immediately the nurse scraped his delicate skin with a cloth to remove the cheesy vermix, that sebum that protects him, finally they stick needles with vitamin K and the antigen for tetanus.

The midwives, on the other hand, attended the birth in places with little light, they had a tub of water with warm water to submerge and clean the newborn, they immediately put the child in the mother's womb, so that when breastfeeding, it was stimulated the contraction of the uterus and the placenta leaves without complications, they even have energy drinks such as brandy, with honey, raisins, pears, apples, rue and husk or quinine, which is a very efficient contractor tonic of the uterus in childbirth, even They collected the child's first urine, to mix it with that preparation and give it to the woman in labor, or to those who accompanied her, which aroused the joy of the people, who immediately turned the birth into a great celebration, in which the future mother and then mom, she never stopped being with her baby, while in hospitals, children go to a nursery, where they could even be lost or confused with others.

She returned to the dispensary preparing for what could be a long night. According to her experience, from what she had learned from her father, that she even attended the births of her sisters at home, where she helped him deliver at the home of her last younger sister. , when she was barely 9 years old.

As she always was, the auxiliary or nurse, who generally lived in Esmeraldas, and traveled almost 4 hours to go and return to her houses daily, so she did not manage the deliveries. She arrived alone and ready.

At midnight the first child was born with her help in the village. After the delivery came the suture of her vagina, which she had to cut so that the head of that 4-kilogram child comes out.

 So as not to overlook the habit. She collected the urine of the newborn, mixed it with that bottle of Frontera, the cane drink, which had bee honey, husk, rue, which was immediately shared by all those attending this extraordinary moment of joy, party, and celebration.

"What do I do with the placenta?" Asked the new grandfather.

- I'm not going to throw it away. He has to bury her next to a large tree, so that her grandson may have blessings from the earth, said the midwife who accompanied them.

- Together all, after distributing the Creole chicken broth with a woman in labor, the jar of bitter chocolate, plus the one prepared with brandy, the father, the grandfather, and the others held a ceremony under a huge mango tree, in which they buried the placenta, asking God and earth for blessings for the newborn.

The sun was already coming when Máxima returned to her room in the dispensary to sleep soundly, after such an exciting day.

At noon Berta. the auxiliary, she came to wake her up.

-Doctor wake up, the patients are waiting for you.

- Please tell them to be patient with me. Last night I attended a delivery. I'm going to take a bath and go out.

- Okay, I'll take the opportunity to give you a talk on AIDS prevention.

- Yes please. Give me a little time.