When Love Should Determine
Chapter 31

As dawn began to dawn, the light of the sun began to warm the earth. Larissa woke up from her sleep. For several days he could not sleep well, now he felt it again.

Larissa woke up her husband who was still asleep on a chair beside her bed with a bent position, both hands she used as a pillow.

Hamzah squirmed, blinked his eyes still a little sleepy, gathered all the consciousness that was still scattered when he felt the wife's soft hand pat her shoulder. "What's up, Cus?" ask her with a distinctive hoarse voice of waking up.

"Wake up, Entik, it's morning" said Larissa softly.

Hamzah yawned for a while, then fixed his sitting position to be firm. "You want to eat, Cus?" tanyanya back.

"Yes. I'm so hungry!."

After giving birth, Larissa became hungry. And not long ago Hamzah just finished bribing him.

"Yes already. I'm out for food first, yeah!" hamzah. It passed soon after Larissa said so. Not long ago he had returned while carrying a bag of crackles containing two packs of nasi uduk.

"Want me another bribe?" bargain Hamzah while sitting himself on a chair. Larissa nodded quickly. With deftness Hamzah greets Larissa.

"Udah, Entik. I was full" Larissa said as Hamzah tried to feed her for the last time.

"But this is a little more. Unfortunately if discarded" said Hamzah, the hand still holds the spoon containing the last bribe.

"But I'm full. Here, look! my stomach until it feels great" Larissa said while pointing towards her stomach.

Hamzah smiled. "Yes, I did, you drink this first" while giving a bottle of mineral water that he had bought with packaged rice.

Larissa received the bottle of mineral water and drank it until half was left. Then he handed the bottle back to Hamzah.

"You don't eat either, Entik?" larissa asked after she wiped her lips with a tissue.

"Later. I'm still a little full."

A moment of silence was created, but not for long Larissa spoke again. "Entik, take me to the baby's room, yuk!. I want to see our son."

"Are you on a strong road?" asked Hamzah while squinting one eye.

"Udah, really!."

"Really?."

"Yes!."

"Yes, come on!."

Larissa got off the bed and stepped out of the room assisted by Hamzah. Larissa still staggered a little while walking, but she was Keukeh to see her baby.

Larissa grimaced in pain as the stitches in her birth canal yesterday rubbed against each other. "Are you sure pa pa?" hamzah asked, a little worried at the way his wife's unusual path was accompanied by a ringing in pain.

"The stitches yesterday still hurt anyway. But if most sleep, my body hurts even more" Larissa replied.

Hamzah sighed. "If so we go slowly, yes. We are also arriving soon. That's the baby's room" Hamzah said, pointing to a room.

Arriving there, Larissa could only look at her daughter from the big glass behind the room. No one is allowed to enter the nursery other than the attendant.

Larissa's eyes glazed over when she saw the tiny body of her writhing baby, along with another baby. He still could not believe that he had given birth to a new life. "What's our son called, Entik?" larissa asked her husband, eyes fixed on her little baby.

"How about Zahra, Fatimah Az-Zahra?" hamzah answered, mentioning a name that came to his mind.

"Zahra's? a very good name. Okay, I agree."

"Then we agree! our daughter's name is Zahra, Fatimah Az-Zahra." They also smile together.

After some time, Hamzah invites Larissa to return to her room. "We're back, yuk! You still have a lot of rest to recover quickly." Larissa nodded in response.

In the middle of the road, Larissa met Bu Ani who wanted to see her grandson. Larissa also told him the strangeness that happened to him. "Mom, I just finished eating, but my stomach still feels hungry. Keep walking also stagger. Why would you, mom?."

Mom Ani thought for a moment, but then she asked, "You wear a corset, don't you?"

"No, Ma. I forgot not to bring it from home" Larissa replied shaking her head.

"Yes, no pa pa. For a while we used to use a rope, ", said Bu Ani. "You're still wearing your fencing rope, aren't you?."

A sling is a thin piece of cloth wrapped between the upper abdomen and the chest. According to traditional beliefs, this rope serves so that the baby does not press too much on the chest when a pregnant woman is sitting. So that the woman has no trouble breathing. This rope is usually used when pregnancy enters the age of five months.

Larissa answered her mother's question by shaking her head. "No ma'am, I'm not wearing it."

"God! you are so stupid. It's worth your way staggering so, is wong you don't use a saddle rope" said Bu Ani while patting his eel.

"Where do I know, Mom. I guess after giving birth, you don't have to tie the fencing rope anymore!" answer Larissa plain.

Bu Ani smiled hearing the innocent answer from her daughter. This is a new right for him. "The fencing rope is still used even though you have given birth. Even continue to be used until you finish the puerperium," explained Bu Ani. "The fencing rope also serves to stabilize the body that suddenly changes. Try to think! Your stomach initially carries a heavy load, then suddenly empties from childbirth, of course the body loses balance."

Larissa mangosteen heard her mother's explanation. Many new things that he did not understand about pregnancy and childbirth according to ancient science. Larissa promised to learn more from her mother. Especially on how to care for a baby. These are all new things to him.

"Then I go back to my room first, Ma'am" said Larissa after a few moments of conversation.

"Yes. Don't forget, wear the rope again" recalls Bu Ani.

"Yes, Mom." Larissa passed by with her husband, while Bu Ani continued to look at her granddaughter.

Arriving in the room, Larissa immediately put on a fencing rope like her mother said earlier. And it's true, after he wore the fencing rope, he no longer staggered while walking. His body no longer felt as tired and lethargic as before.

The door opened, Iqbal entered the room. He walked to his sister. "Rissa, I want to go home first. Brother wants to clean up the net that was scattered yesterday" he said.

"Yes, sister, not pa pa" replied Larissa. "Oh, yes, please tell my in-laws, maybe they want to come here. I'm allowed to go home today."

Last night when transferred to the treatment room, Larissa had indeed been told that today she was allowed to go home, only the time was uncertain. Waiting for the last doctor's examination.

"Yes, I'll tell you!." Iqbal left the hospital, and Larissa was waiting for her doctor to do her last checkup.