Next to me lay this baby, and I didn’t understand how anyone could leave him, it was at that moment my husband entered the room.

Large families around the world, as it is known, receive various benefits. For example, it can be free medications prescribed by a doctor. Annual medical examination and free travel by certain modes of transport. And pension In Ukraine comes for women aged 60 years and includes additional cash increases. Three kids aren't really that many. Even so, the state must help its citizens.



Of course, many will reasonably notice that this is not a reason to have a large number of heirs, if the inheritance itself is not in fact. After all, we all know that it is easier for certain categories of the population not to go to work at all, but to sit at home with a string of children. This problem, for example, faced the United States of America, which provides an excellent financial cushion for large families. But things have gone so far that some families don’t feel like going to work at all. Why? The state will pay for everything. As they say, from extreme to extreme.

When I was 15 years old, I thought I would meet my betrothed at 19. Then he and I will get married and have a big, big wedding. And then I'm going to have a dozen kids, and we're all going to live with their handsome father in a huge house that looks more like a castle. We should have equal numbers of boys and girls. Sons will be strong and daughters beautiful. That's the way it is. How naive I was as a child...

When I first entered the walls of the maternity hospital, I was 33 years old. And this was my second marriage. Yeah, life doesn't always go according to plan. And when you consider the experience of my friends and acquaintances, almost never. I was very nervous. I wanted everything to go as quickly and safely as possible. I had two reasons for that. First, age. I have heard many stories of women giving birth to heroes in their 50s, and nothing. And about Europeans say that they all give birth late.



That's right, but your shirt is closer to your body. And the excitement rising from the depths of the abdomen passed throughout the body. It was scary, uncomfortable. I wanted to run away somewhere. The second and most important reason is that I have been pregnant before. But she interrupted prematurely. Three months. Doctors said that this can happen due to stress, some predispositions, weakness of the body, the reasons were the sea. But the tragedy happened to me personally.

I was married for the first time at that time. After that, my relationship with my ex-husband started to deteriorate every day. I'm not even surprised we broke up two months later. We just became strangers. Not enemies, no. There was no negativity. It's just like there's a fog between us. But there was no desire to get through it. Without quarrels and clarifying the relationship, we separated in different directions. For years I didn’t even want to think about a new relationship. Home, work and cat were all my interests in life.



Two midwives I remember, in the maternity ward, there were two midwives next to me, I don’t even know how it happened. One, younger, with a cold look, constantly joked at me that I was, therefore, an old-born. A rude, cold woman. And the second, older, it seems, her name was Hope, constantly encouraging me and telling me not to worry. That I'll be fine. And I looked so kindly, motherly.

We didn't do an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. It didn't even occur to me. If I did, I would probably refuse. I don't know why. The birth itself took a long time. I was hoping that I would give birth to a strong man, because my stomach was very voluminous, if not huge. My husband even joked that if my son went to me, he would be taller at school. My husband is not very tall, but he never worried about it. I always liked to make fun of myself.

And so, after the most severe contractions, after all the pain and suffering that I endured, I finally gave birth. Depleted and ignorant, I was told I had twins! Two cute lumps that I wanted to keep close to me and never let go. Two of the sweetest and most beautiful girls in the world! I felt like I was in seventh heaven. Finally, my precious children. I wanted to somehow fall out of consciousness from loss of strength and blood, but through force I remained in my mind and pressed my children to me.



But another important event happened to us a little later, a few hours later, when I had recovered a little and recovered. Hope, my favorite midwife, came up to me and reported that in the next ward some cuckoo had abandoned her baby. He's still small, but he needs food. I just had a lot of milk. Can I share? What a question, of course I can! How can such a request be denied?

This news shocked me. Within a day, I gave birth to two children. It's such a joy! Meanwhile, a woman in the neighborhood abandoned her own child. How can you even call her a person? When they brought that boy into my room, my husband was there. And I'm sure he felt it. He saw how sorry I was for this little boy. He now jokes that he just really wanted a boy, so he decided to make fun while he had the opportunity. But I know that he felt similar emotions to me. I guess that's why we're together.



Peels pension for three children We looked at each other and knew that we would go home five. How else? Leaving a little man to his fate? And what will become of him then, what will grow out of him, if all his childhood passes without his parents, surrounded by someone unknown? I remember my husband looking at us with a soft look. And I looked into his eyes, feeling like a little kid and not saying a word. “Maybe, love, we’ll leave him, you don’t mind?” were the best words I’ve ever heard. And for that, I am immensely grateful.

But in each barrel of honey there is a spoonful of tar. And it was my other midwife, the younger one. As I was being discharged with my children, all so happy and radiant, she asked me a question she was not ready for. “Do you think a pension for three children will help you?” That's it, she just moved on. I wanted to shout to her that she was just a resentment of life, an evil fool. What's the three-child pension? What's this about? But I didn't.



Now it seems to me that these were not midwives at all, but naturally two elements that for some reason met me on the way. One kind and bright, gave me a beloved son. And the second one was angry and jealous, only spoiling my mood, as if trying to piss me off. I don’t know why I deserve this kind of attention, but I’m proud to say that this time good has won. Hope won this time. Our family is the main proof of this!