Narrator: Li Yi, a financial practitioner, a novice mother
I am a novice mother. On the evening of March 31, my husband and I returned to the Jinxiu Qiancheng Community, Huamu Street, Pudong under lockdown, with our newly born daughter. At that time, I couldn't get off the floor and walked, so the car outside could only be taken to the entrance of the community. I couldn't get downstairs, so I borrowed wheelchairs from my neighbors in the WeChat group. After a while, someone told me that the wheelchair was borrowed from the neighborhood committee. The team leader of my building arranged for volunteers to take us home as soon as possible. When the neighbors saw the news, they also expressed their concern and congratulations to me.
On the night Li Yi returned home from the hospital, the neighbors were full of concern and blessings. Screenshot of mobile phone
As a novice mother, from the panic and helplessness when the community was blocked on the first day of March 14 to the calmness after the dust settled, she has experienced many twists and turns and has received the kindness of countless people. I want to record all this and give my daughter a nickname "Niannian". I hope she can remember and be grateful for the many kindness she received when she was born in the future.
I am a financial practitioner and I have always been busy with work. I have to go to the community to build a small card in advance when I have a baby, but I have been dragging it down. On March 14, I officially started taking maternity leave after my child’s due date. I originally planned to go to the hospital for prenatal check-up this morning and then go to build a small card in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, after returning from the prenatal examination, the community was blocked.
I was a little panicked when I saw that I couldn't go out. with a try attitude, I consulted in the neighbor group what to do in my situation. Soon several people added me as friends and told me who I could contact and where to ask about relevant information. According to the guidance of these enthusiastic people, Dr. Zhao Jing from Huamu Community Hospital contacted me and successfully helped me build a small card.
The due date is getting closer, and I am starting to worry about hospitalization again. The community is sealed, can I leave the community smoothly? Is there any hospital willing to accept me? I feel unsure. With the help of volunteers from the community medical emergency team, I contacted Teacher Xia Yu from the neighborhood committee. Teacher Xia told me not to worry, saying that having a baby is the top priority. If there is a situation, the community will contact 120 to send me to the hospital as soon as possible. When the
community was blocked on the 8th day, all residents had negative nucleic acids in all rounds, and the closure was announced at 4:00 that afternoon. However, because I saw that the communities were unblocked again after being unblocked, I was actually quite nervous. So on the day of the lockdown, I wanted to stay in the hospital, and the hospital had agreed to accept it. But everyone in the family said that the lockdown had been unblocked anyway, so it would be better to pack up and live there early the next morning.
Unexpectedly, woke up early the next morning and the community was re-blocked. After this twists and turns, I was anxious and depressed, and regretted missing the time window to go to the hospital after I learned about the lockdown. It is me who is pregnant with Liujia, so my psychological burden is also very heavy. Having restless, I called Teacher Xia Yu again. Teacher Xia comforted me and said, "Don't worry, you are a very special situation, we will give priority to solving it." I felt a little relieved.
only found out after calling that several neighbors who had never met me sent me private messages asking me if I had gone to the hospital the day before, and if I hadn't gone out yet, I would contact the community for help. I didn't expect that my affairs made these neighbors who were just "netizens" so worried, and I felt very moved.
There is also a neighbor couple in the community, and I am very concerned about my affairs. I had contacted them before because of other things, but I had never met them. Knowing that my family has no car for the time being, the male owner of this family readily sent me his wife's mobile phone number and provided me with three solutions. If he has time, I can call him directly and ask him to help him take him to the hospital; if he is busy, I can call his wife and ask his wife to send him away; he said he could borrow a car for us to drive, and he left the car keys to my husband and asked him to drive in the garage first...
Although we were the hospital that the neighborhood committee took a taxi to the hospital after sending the transfer bill, I felt particularly moved by the enthusiasm of these neighbors. Since the first day the community was blocked, almost everyone has helped me with all the problems I encountered, and they have thought about it for me very attentively. The whole community is like a warm big family.
The order for medical treatment issued by the neighborhood committee. Photo provided by the interviewee
On March 29, I had been in the hospital for nearly a week and felt that the child was "mobilized". At around 6 o'clock that morning, under the coordination of the neighborhood committee, my neighbor Tang Renyuan, who was opposite the door, drove my mother and confinement nanny and to the hospital. When they arrived at the hospital, I had already entered the delivery room. Because of the epidemic prevention policy, they can only wait in the first floor lobby of the hospital. Until after 10 o'clock in the evening, they could not see me and the child.
At that time, Pudong had already implemented measures to not leave home. There were basically no cars outside to pass. They couldn't call a car if they wanted to go home, and there were no hotels nearby to stay. My mother and aunt were very helpless. At this time, a doctor named Lu extended a helping hand.
It turned out that Dr. Lu saw that it was past ten o'clock and my mother was still waiting in the lobby, so she went over and asked her what was going on. My mother said that they wanted to go home but couldn't get a car. They thought about riding a bicycle home, but it was too late and they were not familiar with the road, so they couldn't do it. At this time, Dr. Lu said, "My car can still be out, I'll take you back." Then, he drove my mother and aunt home. On the day I was discharged from the hospital, Dr. Lu drove me and my husband and daughter to the entrance of the community. Dr. Lu’s full name is Lu Yong. He is a medical staff member of Aier Beijia Hospital where I gave birth this time. I am very grateful to him!
After returning home, my husband and I began to discuss what nickname to give the child, and finally decided to call her "Niannian". This name has two meanings: the first is good thoughts and the second is gratitude. I hope my daughter can remember in the future that she has received the care and help from so many people during this special period of birth. In the future, she will be a person she always appreciates and do her best to help more people.
These days, I have seen many colleagues and friends volunteer in my circle of friends. A friend wrote a passage and was deeply impressed. She said: If kindness is a circle, the people in the circle are happiness. Each of us hopes to do our best to make this circle bigger and make happiness more. There is also a friend who is in a community where she is in short supply, so she tried every means to mobilize her resources to buy eggs, rice, vegetables, bread and milk for everyone, and became an "all-round group leader", hoping that her behavior could bring warmth to the people around her.
This is the other side of Shanghai under the usual polite and alienated appearance, and it is also the Shanghai in my eyes. Almost everyone is working hard to help each other and fight the epidemic together, hoping that the city will resume operations as soon as possible. Shanghai like will definitely defeat the epidemic eventually. Let's work hard together! Editor-in-chief of
column: Gu Yong
The title picture shows Li Yi's daughter "Niannian". Photo provided by the interviewee.
Source: Author: Li Baohua Organize
