Chloe by Lyn Cote

Author:Lyn Cote [COTE, LYN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC026000
ISBN: 9780446553704
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2008-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Little Elizabeth was over a month old. It was after midnight in the dark and otherwise silent house. Chloe stood near the window and thought she might go crazy. She pressed the back of her hand to her mouth, buffeted by wave after wave of frustration. “What’s wrong with her?” Why doesn’t she like me?

Jerusha held the wailing baby in her arms and walked up and down the nursery floor. “Your little Bette got the colic. That’s all, Miss Chloe. She can’t help it. Her little tummy hurt her.” Jerusha made soothing noises and rocked the baby in her arms as she paced.

Chloe had been so weak and in so much pain after childbirth that her mother had taken over Bette’s care while Jerusha nursed Chloe back to health. Now, for some reason, Chloe couldn’t make up for lost time with her baby. “I should be able to comfort my baby.” A good mother would be able to.

“She know her mommy is here. She just feel so bad she gotta let us know.”

“Every time I nurse her she cries.” Chloe covered her face with her hands and winced, thinking of how painful nursing Elizabeth was. I’m a bad mother. A good mother wouldn’t mind the discomfort.

“This is your first time and you gotta baby with a sore stomach. It make you nervous. That’s all.”

“But she screams every time I touch her.” Chloe felt like sinking to the floor and never rising again. What am I doing wrong? I must be doing something really bad. I lost Theran and now my baby hates me. She leaned her head against the chilly window. Tears poured from her eyes and she was too weak to wipe them away.

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