- What is the one then that he brings it for here?
Intrigued with his physical complexion diverted him the answer:
- Do excuse, does he practice some sport?
- I practiced weightlifting until there is little time. Due to the tasks present I stopped doing… but he tells me that intends.
- It is on my wife - the Tina - she is almost to give birth...
- Frankly, that is subject for a hospital and me am not midwife.
- But, doesn't he know that the people of mixed-race childbirths are despised? I don't want to run risks.
- That didn't know.
- But it is the pure true.
- He hopes will already treat of that.
He sought during one minutes until that he found a book:
- Look, this book will help it. It belonged to a person of my family. It was written for who lived in the bushes, far away from the doctors. They have a chapter dedicated to the childbirth without doctor. Excuse but I cannot waste a long time, because I am to prepare my classes for tomorrow.
- Is teacher?
- Yes, in Salvador Correia. One of my students is Irene Neto. It is very intelligent as the father. To the beginning they took her of car. But Agostinho Neto put an end to that. He told him that the rights are same for all. House salts as all of the students and you take a sandwiches.
- Did Agostinho Neto make that?
- In spite of everything it is very human. He already happened during a course in that it went with her escort, he saw a wounded and it interrupted the march for helping. Now I have been very concerned, because I am to prepare slides to do projected to the first trainees of the petroleum’s that are going to Italy. So that they don't leave of here without the now notice knowledge.
I studied the book well in the chapter dedicated to the childbirth. When the hour arrived got ready to be my son's midwife. I extended a big cardboard in the ground. The Tina opened the legs as it determined the book. I put a pot with water until her to be lukewarm. I prepared the diapers and a razor blade no previously used last in the fire to prevent infections, and a lemon.
It was the first childbirth that did in my life. First he appeared the head of the baby and later the shoulders. I put the two thumbs in the extremities of the vagina and I made quick pressure, avoiding to hurt the newborn baby. This would help the mother, and it would also serve so that the fabrics didn't become torn. The shoulders appeared. The most difficult was made. The newly born suddenly jumped as a fish out of water. I held him very daintily and he gave the first life signs... he sneezed and he cried.
Mauro was born. I measured two spans of my hand and with the sheet I cut the umbilical cord. I bent it to the middle and I rolled up line with little pressure. I put a lemon drop in each eye for to disinfect. Then it was the first bath to be properly clean. The towel and the diapers were under the responsibility of the Tina.
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