@JDH: damnnn, scary encounter with your ggm!!! That is scary craziness!! That part about you peeking into your ggm’s room and seeing another person laying down with her under the blanket got chills running down my spine!!!!! I love your stories! Oh, you say that your grandparents reside in Merced and that your gma is from the Thao clan? I’m from there also and is also a Thao but I never heard of your Gma’s stories, If you dont mind , what was your ggm name? my gma might know her.
Well, similar to your story my Grandma also told me about a story of two couples. This is back in Thailand/laos, the wife was about to give birth and the midwife was there assisting her. Each time the baby is about to come out, the husband would start to lose his breath and he was slowly dying. This would only happen each time the wife pushes and the head is about to come out, but when she relaxes, the head would go back in (if you’ve given birth or seen it, you know what I’m talking about because that’s how it is until the uterus gives in and push the baby out). Well, I guess they notice this and told the wife that if the baby is born then the husband will die so she’ll have to choose if she wants the baby to live or the husband. She told them that she can always have more babies in the future and that she wants to save her husband, not the baby, so when the time came and she pushed that final push the baby came out. The midwife grabbed the baby and put a big wooden object ontop of the child and killed it, the husband recovered and was fine. Turns out, they did have more children.
