Garrett Nordmark slightly turned his body, standing beside the light screen he had opened. The screen was about two ters wide, reaching from the floor to Garrett’s shoulder, filled with patterns, charts, and numbers. Even Garrett found it amusing:
After all these years, he had rekindled the skill of making PPTs...
But to be honest, this thod of pulling a curtain in a eting room, projecting, and explaining through PPTs was tried and tested, and indeed effective.
With a wave of his hand, the PPT lit up, drawing everyone’s attention:
“With magical pain relief, both natural childbirth and C-section seem painless, but natural childbirth is more exhausting. However, the sequelae are different. First, during natural childbirth, the birth canal will expand significantly, even causing tears.”
Garrett tapped the virtual screen. From left to right, two rows of images were displayed:
The top row showed an orange with a hole, the size of the hole increasing from a fingernail to a coin, and finally to half the size of the orange.
The bottom row showed a pumpkin with a hole, the size increasing from the size of an orange to one and a half oranges, and eventually to the size of a bowl.
Mother Mary and several priestesses’ faces turned grim imdiately. Before they could speak, Garrett conjured a pointer and traced the oranges and pumpkins one by one:
“To allow the baby to be born smoothly, the cervix of the mother will expand from the width of one finger,” pointing to the smallest hole on the orange,
“To ten fingers wide.” The pointer moved up and down, stopping at the largest hole on the pumpkin.
“From the cervix to the birth canal, everything must expand to this extent to accommodate the baby. During this process, the birth canal may suffer 1st to 4th-degree tears—”
The light and shadow changed, revealing two circles, one above the other. The upper circle expanded, tearing at the edges. Beside the circles, a table with two columns and four rows appeared, and as Garrett spoke, text filled in:
“A first-degree tear is limited to the skin and mucosa. A second-degree tear damages the skin, mucosa, and muscles.”
The light and shadow continued to change. The upper circle expanded further, touching the lower circle and tearing it open. The third row of text was filled in:
“A third-degree tear tears the skin, mucosa, muscles, and anal sphincter, but does not affect the rectal mucosa.”
The queen, her ladies-in-waiting, especially the young unmarried ones, gasped.
Garrett tapped the light screen again. At this mont, he didn’t have the heart to describe the more terrifying consequences, like fourth-degree tears that could tear the rectum, and let the text flash on the screen briefly before turning the page:
The second chart appeared, slowly revealing text under Garrett’s control.
Sigh, the magical PPT looked cool, but it required ntal control. If his ntal strength scattered, the PPT would disappear imdiately—
If only a mouse click could make the text and pictures appear automatically. The new mobile tower spirit he got wasn’t intelligent enough to change the text with his narration, it needed to be slowly trained back ho.
Garrett felt a bit regretful as he continued reporting:
“Until now, Oak Grove Clinic and the Royal Maternity Hospital have received 1,538 pregnant won, among whom 957 had natural childbirth and 581 had C-sections. Among those who had natural childbirth, 577 experienced birth canal tears, with an incidence rate of 60.3%.”
A commotion rose in the hall. Astonished, puzzled, even skeptical gazes shot from all directions. Grand Mage Seymour spoke up before anyone else:
“You claim there are so many, but is it really that many? Are these data not fabricated by you?”
Grand Mage’s support was excellent. Garrett gave him a ntal thumbs-up and patted the space bag at his waist:
“All the dical records are here. Anyone with doubts can check them afterward.” He then pointed at the magic light screen, and the numbers continued to scroll:
“Among those who had natural childbirth, 328 were first-ti mothers, and 629 were experienced mothers. Among the first-ti mothers, 235 had birth canal tears, with an incidence rate of 71.7%; among the experienced mothers, 342 had tears, with an incidence rate of 54.4%. Most of these were first or second-degree tears...”
In other words, if you choose natural childbirth, there is a 71.7% chance you will experience your body being torn apart. Queen Anne’s face turned pale, and she muttered:
“Why didn’t anyone tell …”
Before choosing to marry, before choosing to get pregnant, why didn’t anyone tell her that childbirth was such a frightening thing?
If soone had told her... If she had known in advance...
Everyone present sensed the queen’s emotions. The queen’s maid, Lady Bradley, stepped forward and gently patted her arm.
At this mont, saying "Giving birth to heirs for the kingdom is Her Majesty’s duty" was too late. This elderly woman who had given birth to three sons could only glare at Garrett fiercely and whisper to comfort:
“Not everyone experiences such pain. Besides, the healers of the Spring Goddess’s temple are always reliable. After the birth, they will treat Her Majesty imdiately.”
“Indeed, the healing spell can indeed heal birth canal tears.” Garrett responded. He then changed his tone:
“However, delivering through the birth canal will stretch the muscles of the birth canal thoroughly, and this is sothing everyone has to go through. This probability is 100%.”
Without any visible movent, the magic PPT displayed a new page. Garrett turned to the light screen, his expression solemn:
“Even if stretched muscles are healed, they won’t contract so quickly. Of course, this only brings so inconvenience, but the real danger is—postpartum hemorrhage.”
The queen, the nobles, the spellcasters all took a deep breath in unison. Mother Mary hurriedly said:
“Healing spells can stop bleeding!”
“Yes, they can stop bleeding.” Garrett nodded in agreent. He then conjured another light and shadow, explaining slowly:
“Postpartum hemorrhage mainly occurs during the process of delivering the placenta after the baby is born. To nourish the baby, the blood vessels between the uterus and the placenta are completely open—”
The uterus, placenta, and umbilical cord were vividly displayed in the magical light and shadow. Garrett even used red light to outline the surging blood flow:
“After the baby is born, the uterus begins to contract, pressing on the blood vessels to separate the placenta. If the uterus contracts weakly and the placenta does not separate or only partially separates, it will cause postpartum hemorrhage.”
He stepped forward, staring at Mother Mary and the healers of the Spring Goddess’s temple:
“Healing spells can indeed stop bleeding, but can you perfectly separate the placenta from the uterus through the human body, completely stopping the bleeding on the uterine surface and ensuring the complete separation of the placenta?”
“This…”
No healer dared to answer. Indeed, the principle of the healing spell was to make the wound heal quickly—
Who could guarantee that a healing spell wouldn’t make the placenta grow onto the uterus? It didn’t need to grow completely, just a small part, and the trouble afterward would be imnse.
In fact, this was one of the reasons why even with healers’ assistance, the survival rate of all pregnant won couldn’t be guaranteed.
The priests’ words were blocked. Garrett didn’t stop, and the second data chart was thrown in everyone’s face:
“Among the 957 who had natural childbirth, 20 experienced postpartum hemorrhage—here referring to a blood loss of over 500 milliliters—accounting for 2.11%; 48 had puerperal disease, accounting for 5.03%, postpartum infection… surgical injury…”
Thanks to the strong mory of a mage, Garrett reported without a hitch. Finally, he summarized:
“The total incidence rate of recent complications is 12.43%. In comparison, the incidence rate of recent complications among those who had C-sections is only 2.89%.”
In the previous life, the hospitalization ti and complication rate of C-sections were far higher than natural childbirth. But in this world with divine magic, postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum infection, surgical injury, and many complications could be eliminated in advance by divine magic.
—For example, if the incision could heal on the spot, how much could the probability of postpartum infection be reduced?
The hall fell into silence. One picture after another, one chart after another, with data piled up from thousands of cases, were thrown at them relentlessly, making it hard to breathe.
Those who wanted to stop Garrett, whether it was the high priest of the Spring Goddess’s temple or so old-fashioned nobles insisting on principles, all felt their faces burning with sha.
“So, Mage Nordmark,” in the silence, the queen’s oldest and highest-ranking maid stepped forward. The elderly woman’s voice, old yet clear, fell on the polished floor of the hall:
“Do you an that the queen has no better choice but to have you perform the surgery? Only if you take action can she deliver safely, without pain or complications?”
Otherwise, why present all this data?
Are you trying to scare the queen?
Are you trying to use pain and danger to intimidate her, to control her to act according to your will?
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