
The traffic that night was very heavy. Street lights that have been lit since the afternoon are almost lost to the spotlight of vehicles passing by. When viewed from above it may look like a twinkling star.
"Geez, why is it so jammed?" Alicia complains because her car can only move a few cents.
After spending the night and having dinner at a restaurant. Reihan and Alicia decide to go home. Because tomorrow morning Alicia has to go to work.
"Prophey dear." Reihan rubbed his wife's head full of affection. "If you sleep. I'll be up to the apartment." Her baby while smiling thinly.
"Huh... Alright." He immediately took a comfortable position and did not take long to fall asleep. Because he was sleepy enough.
After a few minutes, Reihan saw a man driving around while tapping on the windshield of the driver's car that was stuck in traffic. His face looked panicked as if something was happening. Reihan immediately lowered the windshield when the man was about to approach his car.
"What's up? From earlier I saw you knock almost all the car glass every driver stuck in traffic." Ask Reihan to know.
The man took a breath and gasped for breath as he ran around answering Reihan's question.
"My wife was about to give birth, but the road was still jammed because there was a bus that rolled in front."
'Have it done so badly.' He murmured in his heart.
"Have you asked for help?" Ask again.
"I've contacted the nearest hospital. But chances are they're stuck in traffic, too."
"How's the condition?" Alicia asked who was awake after hearing her husband talk to someone. Although he is not a specialist obstetrician. But as a doctor he will not stay silent when someone needs his help.
Perhaps due to being too panicked or not listening to his voice, the man did not respond to his question. It really made Alicia nervous. But when she was about to ask again, her husband had already represented her.
"Mas, my wife asked. How is your wife? Because it just so happens my wife is a doctor."
"really?" Shouted the man excited. Almost half an hour he went around asking for help and hoping for a doctor to get caught in the traffic. But he did not find it at all. He was so grateful to be able to find a doctor at this time.
"Yes, I'm a doctor. How's condition? Has the water broken?" Ask Alicia to make sure.
The man was silent for a moment and recalled his wife's last condition. "When I got out of the car to ask for help. He's been in pain and said his stomach's tense." He was silent again for a split second before speaking again. "The water of his decency, I don't think it's broken. But my current condition is not yet heard."
"Who is she with now? Is it alone?"
"No! She's with my mother-in-law right now."
"All right! I'll check his condition." Alicia said as she removed her seatbelt. But his movements stopped and suddenly patted his forehead while exclaiming.
"What's wrong?" Reihan asked who saw his wife's confused expression.
"My medical equipment, I didn't bring it. How'this?" He immediately panicked and the man who was waiting for him was instantly disappointed after hearing all that.
Reihan immediately took off his seatbelt and took something from the back seat of his car. Then he handed it into the hands of his wife.
"What's this?" Ask wonder.
"Open up!" He cried while smiling thinly.
Deftly Alicia opened what her husband gave her. Her eyes instantly widened when she saw what Reihan had given her.
"Mas Rei, this... " His lap already had one bag of emergency medical supplies.
Reihan nodded, "Right, that's a gift for you. The plan is I'll give it to you later because tomorrow you'll be on duty. But right now you need all this to help your patients."
The hope that was about to break up was re-connected when he saw the medical supplies on Alicia's lap. So that makes the man did not stop giving thanks.
"Thanks for me." Alicia immediately kissed Reihan's cheek as a sign of her gratitude.
"Happy duty my wife. Your first patient is waiting." His words gave encouragement. "You can definitely. Bismillah, spirit." Whispers right in Alicia's ear.
Alicia smiled and immediately got out of the car. "Show me the way." His love for that man.
"Follow me." The man immediately walked towards his car and was followed by Alicia in the back.
Along the way he kept thinking whether he could do it or not. Because she is a heart specialist and only a few times helps patients give birth. That was when he was in his fourth year of residence. But if he does not act and wait for the ambulance to come. He was worried that it would be dangerous for the safety of the mother and baby.
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Arriving at the patient's car that is about to give birth. Alicia saw that the woman was already lying in the passenger seat and her legs were covered with blankets. The middle-aged woman who holds her head which is the woman's mother. Can only encourage his son who is feeling the pleasure of the wave of love from the baby in the stomach.
The woman really could not control her screams. Because she just gave birth to her first child. There has been no previous birth experience.
Seeing that, as doctor Alicia tried to calm her patients. "Calm down. Don't panic."
"Who are you, huh? Relax sick tau. You haven't felt how it feels." Instead of being calm the woman instead shouted and scolded Alicia.
"Doctor help me. It hurts doc... " Whimper the woman after hearing Alicia's explanation.
"Yes mba. Now calm down. Take a deep breath, keep throwing it away. So onward." Alicia's orders were calm.
The woman directly followed Alicia's direction and made Alicia sigh in relief.
"Oh yeah, with whom?"
"I'm Aulia doctor."
"Well, Aulia, I'll check your condition first." Alicia took out her stethoscope and began to examine her patients. He also checks the mother's blood pressure and pulse to determine whether the baby's pulse is stable or not. Fortunately the pulse of the mother and baby was still stable so Alicia was quite calm. Not to forget he also checked the birth canal and he was surprised because the patient had opened 5.
Before long Aulia returns contractions with increasingly short duration. "Mr...! Doctor...! This what? How wet?" Shouted Aulia as she felt her back feel wet.
Instantly Alicia opened the blanket and saw that her water had already broken. He quickly checked the birth canal again.
"The opening is complete. When I instructed the thrust, Mba Aulia could directly push ya." He said as he prepared to help deliver Aulia.
"Yes the doctor." Saut Aulia while holding back contractions.
"OK, take a deep breath. Now push." He gave the order.
After three pauses in an attempt to push the baby out. Finally, at the last push, the baby was born into the world accompanied by a loud baby cry and made everyone who was stuck in traffic smile happily.
"Congratulations, you boys." With emergency medical equipment Alicia cut the umbilical cord and wrapped the baby in a blanket. Then he handed it into his father's hands.
After that he took out the ari-ari and sewed the wound from giving birth earlier. Aulia's condition immediately decreased and almost lost consciousness.
"Mba Aulia...! Please don't sleep!" Alicia looked at the middle-aged woman who was near Aulia. "Open please keep talking to him. Don't let him fall asleep." Pinta Alicia is polite.
The reason Alicia did not let Aulia sleep was because usually everyone who gave birth at all should not be allowed to sleep immediately. Because of the many cases, they will never wake up again.
"Good doctor." The woman looked at her daughter and said. "Darling, listen to mama. Don't sleep, look at your son's so handsome."
Aulia tried to maintain her consciousness and looked at her baby who was in the arms of her husband. Meanwhile, Alicia immediately cleaned up her equipment and immediately went out of the car to see the situation outside. Shortly after the ambulance came after the overturned bus had been evacuated and the injured and deceased had been taken to the Hospital.
"Where's the patient?" Ask the medics who got off the ambulance.
"Here!" Alicia exclaimed as she looked at the medics.
"How's the condition?"
"Currently his condition is not good. Please give me the infusion and oxygen." Pinta Alicia to the medics.
"Are you the one who helped deliver the patient?"
"Yes, I'm Alicia's doctor who helps with the birth process. Quickly take him to the Hospital!"
"alright. Bring the cage here!" He shouted at his partner.
Other medics immediately lowered the cage and helped bring the patient to the ambulance. Then immediately take her to the nearest Hospital.
"Thank you for the help of the doctor." Said the man who was later known as Arya.
"That's my job. You'd better catch up with your wife to the hospital."
"Thank you doctor again." After saying that he immediately got into the car and drove his car following the ambulance that had been speeding.
"Is the doctor's job done?"
Alicia who was still standing while carrying her emergency medical supplies immediately looked back.
"Of course." Answer with a smile.
"Then let's go home." Reihan immediately took his wife back in the car and immediately left the location.
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to be continue