生一个孩子有多难?在北京,也许只需给医院打个电话,周到细致的服务便随之而来。而在我国山区农村,这个过程至今仍然难到无法想象。2005年3月7日,本文作者远赴云南玉龙,重庆黔江,宁夏隆德,福建政和、屏南4省5县,在远离城市的20多个乡镇的近60个村庄里,与数十位阵痛中的孕妇或刚刚迎来新生命的产妇,一起走在去医院分娩或携子回家的山路水路上,感受当代中国农村女性初为人母的幸福与艰辛。 How difficult is it to have a baby? In Beijing, perhaps only a phone call to the hospital is required, and careful and meticulous service will follow. In our mountainous rural areas, the process is still difficult to imagine. On March 7, 2005, the author went to Yulong in Yunnan, Qianjiang in Ningxia, Lund in Ningxia, Zhenghe in Fujian and Pingnan in 4 provinces and 5 counties. Nearly 60 villages in over 20 towns and villages far from the city, Pregnant women in pain or newlywed women just walked to the mountain waterway where they went to hospital for delivery or brought their children back home and felt the happiness and hardship of the early motherhood in contemporary rural China.