Introduction:

“There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is not having offspring” comes from "Mencius Li Lou Shang". The original text is: "There are three kinds of unfilial piety. The greatest is not having an heir. Shun married without complaining, which was considered to have no heirs. A gentleman thought he would sue even though he was married."

Whether it was before or now, many people still believe that they must have children. After all, having children means carrying on the family line and hosting them. When they grow old, they will have children to take care of them, and they can take care of them. Enjoy your old age, so no matter when you get married at a certain age, you will have the idea of ??having a child. There is such an old couple. When they are in their sixties, they still long to have a child of their own. Therefore, they did not hesitate to risk the pregnancy of an elderly woman to conceive and give birth to a child. However, after giving birth, she expressed that she regretted it a little.

1. Daughter passed away due to gas poisoning

At the beginning of the story, the protagonist is a doctor named Sheng Hailin. Her life is very ordinary, so ordinary that she has retired from being a hard-working female doctor. She became an old aunt and lived a comfortable life in her old age, but unfortunately, an accident broke the peace of the family. That is, her only daughter died of gas poisoning, and she lost her daughter all of a sudden.

This accident is difficult for an aunt in her sixties to accept, because she can already enjoy her old age in her current life, but the unexpected death of her daughter has left her without this She missed her daughter so much that she even considered in vitro fertilization to conceive another child to make up for missing her daughter and to have a son to support her when she grew old.

2. An older pregnant woman gave birth to twins

So she and her husband went to the hospital together. Although many doctors did not recommend that she get pregnant again at such an old age, Yixin She wanted to have children, so she finally chose to get pregnant again, and spent tens of thousands of dollars on surgery. She was finally pregnant, and she was pregnant with twins. This made her extremely happy, although she was also worried. Will she be able to give birth smoothly when the time comes? But she knows better than to make peace with it once it comes.

3. The children were still young but she was getting old

As time went by, she finally gave birth to the twins. However, due to premature birth, the children needed high blood pressure as soon as they were born. The maintenance cost is huge, which is a huge pressure for the couple whose only source of income is pension, so they have to run around for milk powder money for their children, and as the children get older, As they get older, they no longer have the energy to take care of them, but the children are still in elementary school. Therefore, someone asked her if she regretted it. She said, "Think twice before you act." It is not difficult to see that she did regret it a little. After all, she had a lot of ability to raise a child when she was young.

Conclusion: But when she was 64 years old, she still insisted on giving birth to a child. Although her mental state was okay at the time, as time went by, she became old after all, and now she is seventy. She is many years old, but I think she has no regrets about regaining the joy of having a child.

Reference material: "Mencius Li Lou Shang"