In 2004, a young couple who originally wanted a second child unexpectedly became pregnant with quintuplets.
Because of the rapid increase in population, the already not wealthy family has made matters worse, and there is no time to rest every day, but the life after 19 years has made everyone envious.
In 1999, Zhang Xiaomin and Li Canjun, who were in their early 20s, met and fell in love, and a wedding was held soon after.
In 2001, Zhang Xiaomin gave birth to a lovely daughter, and the couple were overjoyed, and took their daughter to farm in the countryside to make a living.
Three years later, Zhang Xiaomin became pregnant again, originally planning to have a second child as a companion, but unexpectedly, this time the reaction was particularly strong - only two months later, her belly was already high, several laps larger than a normal pregnant woman.
Worried that there was a problem, Li Canjun immediately took his wife to the hospital for examination, and at first the doctor guessed that it might be twins, which made the young couple overjoyed.
However, further examination revealed that their jaws dropped - it turned out to be quadruplets!
After learning about it, the doctor suggested that the fetus could be reduced at the right time, because multiple pregnancies were too dangerous, but Zhang Xiaomin did not hesitate to choose to keep all the children, even if she herself would face many risks.
Back at home, Zhang Xiaomin carefully carried out the doctor's instructions to put herself in the best condition to protect the fetus, but as time went by, her physical burden became more and more unbearable.
The originally flat belly was overwhelmed, bulging high like a balloon, Zhang Xiaomin had difficulty even breathing normally, let alone acting, Li Canjun was scared, for fear that she would make a mistake.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaomin has extraordinary perseverance, surviving every difficulty with extraordinary willpower, she knows that she is the only way for her four children to be born safely, even if the road ahead is bumpy, she is silently guarding the flesh and blood to move forward.
Finally, after waiting in pain, Zhang Xiaomin was rushed to the operating room, at this moment, every breath and every heartbeat touched the hearts of the husband and wife, they only asked the four little angels to appear safely and meet their mother.
One day in November 2004, Zhang Xiaomin was rushed to the operating room.
Li Canjun was also apprehensive outside the operating room, at first the doctor said that there were four children, and he could barely accept it; Unexpectedly, they actually gave birth to quintuplets, which was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for their poor peasant family.
What worries him even more is - will these five premature babies survive safely?
Two hours later, the ward finally ushered in the first "little visitor", *brought the newborn eldest daughter Li Ke, who had already received the preliminary ** in the incubator.
Although she was very weak, she was finally out of danger, and holding her daughter, Zhang Xiaomin shed tears of relief.
The next person to visit his mother was the second son Li Zhan, who, like his sister, also lived in an incubator for a while, but fortunately, this naughty "little guy" gradually got better and could return to his mother for a short time.
The third daughter Li Ning and the fourth daughter Li Chang had to continue to stay in the incubator because of their lung underdevelopment**, and Li Canjun took turns to support Zhang Xiaomin, who was still receiving infusions, every day, and ran back and forth between the insulation room and the ward.
They did not dare to relax in the slightest, for fear that their daughters' condition would regress.
As the eldest of the quintuplets, his body was the weakest, he was only a pound and two pounds when he was born, and he didn't take off the ventilator until the third day, Zhang Xiaomin couldn't sleep all night, worrying about the youngest son all day long.
So, under the watchful eye, this little rural woman actually gave birth to quintuplets like a medical miracle! As soon as the news came out, it immediately set off huge waves across the country.
Because of premature birth, the five newborns weighed less than two pounds and had to be sent to the incubator for rescue, and the high cost of medical treatment and care in the later stage made the absent couple stretched.
Li Canjun had no choice but to borrow money from relatives and friends everywhere, scraping together more than 100,000 yuan before and after, and barely paid the medical bills, he knew that the burden on his shoulders was heavy, because this was the beginning of life.
Fortunately, after nearly two months of **, the five young children and the mother Zhang Xiaomin are getting better, Li Canjun was ecstatic, holding the discharge notice in his hand and looking at it carefully, he vowed that he would let the five children grow up healthy and happy.
In the winter of 2004, the five "little angels" followed their parents back to their hometown in the countryside, standing at the gate of the courtyard, Li Canjun took a deep breath of the fresh air of the countryside, looked at the wheat field behind the house, and smiled at his beloved wife.
Everything seems to be back to the starting point, they are still living the simplest farming life, but there are five more lovely existences in their lives, Li Canjun feels that this is where the real happiness lies.
Taking care of quintuplets is not an easy task.
In the first month after returning home, the quintuplets brought Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin unimaginable confusion and trouble, the five children looked very similar, and the husband and wife could not distinguish at all.
Feeding and diaper changes can go wrong, and there are often regrets such as repeated feeding or forgetting to feed.
In desperation, the two could only put identification tags on each child's head, and this chaotic situation lasted for a whole month, until the characteristics of the five little ones gradually became obvious, and Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin breathed a sigh of relief.
But then an even bigger problem arose – how to afford the astronomical cost of milk powder for five babies?
The milk powder alone is as high as 1,500 yuan per month, which makes this absenteeism family stretched, and Li Canjun has to go back and forth dozens of kilometers every few days to buy a cart of milk powder.
Two months later, the milk powder brand learned of their plight and offered to provide free milk powder for two years, which opened the door to hope for the desperate family.
In the days that followed, Li Canjun worked hard during the day at the mouth of the coal mine, 20 kilometers away, earning about 4,000 yuan a month, and Zhang Xiaomin had to open a commissary at home to subsidize the family because he had to take care of his five children.
Fortunately, they have received a number of subsidies, and the villages and towns have issued subsistence allowances in a timely manner, so that the pressure on their lives can be alleviated.
The unit also gave regular subsidies, as well as the care of all walks of life, so that the quintuplets family was not crushed by high expenses.
Time flies, the quintuplets are growing up, the family's life is gradually on the right track, and their eldest daughter is also preparing for the graduate school entrance examination.
Now, all the quintuplets are already college students, Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin can't help but recall the bitterness of the year, they didn't expect that after so many years of hard work, it is not easy for the family to live happily together.
As the children grew older, the burden on Li Canjun and his wife was put down a lot, but they did not let up.