i want short summary of birth chapter ....it very urgent

Birth is the part of the novel "The Citadel."Andrew Manson had just completed with his medical studies who was now assisting Dr Edward Page in a small mining town Blaenelly......here it begins: Andrew was coming back disappointed after meeting his girlfriend Christine. As he reached his home, he saw Joe Morgan who was waiting for the young Doctor restlessly. His wife was in a poor condition as she was giving birth to their first child, after twenty years of their marriage.They walked down the street, it was midnight. As they reached door number 12, Morgan 's house no. the doctor entered inside while Joe waited outside, stressed.Andrew saw the patient lying , beside her was her old mother, in her seventies. He found out that the baby can come out anytime and had to wait in their house as the patient was a middle aged woman. It was half past three, the nurse in the room screamed to the doctor. It was time for some work, as the doctor was operating the mother and after an hour a baby boy was born, lifeless. The patient lay as she was given anaesthesia and the old woman looking at the stillborn baby. Andrew was competely in shock, and tried all possible efforts to get back the child to life. The baby 's body was white indicating towards asphyxia, pallida. He had seen a similar condition in Samaritan, studying medical. He quickly asked the nurse for hot water, cold water and basins. Baby laid once in hot water then in cold, nothing happened. Andrew sat there helpless, remembering how much the old lady wished for a grandchild.He again tried, for the last time, rubbed his back, started breathing in the child 's mouth. And then it was a miracle, the heart started beating as felt by Andrew, there was a sense of life lying in the hands of Andrew Manson who grew joyful, had a feeling of achieving success and having doing something real.The young father Joe was now destressed and the old mother silently started praying.

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