Book 2: Baby of Mine

Emory

Michael won’t stop crying. I don’t know what he wants. I’ve fed and burped him and changed his diaper. Nothing seems to work.

Even with my mom and the maids help, I’m exhausted and not getting enough sleep. No one can figure out why the baby won’t stop crying. During a check-up at the clinic, Dr. Martin says he thinks it might be colic. He suggests a list of soothing techniques to help but none of them work. 

After the end of a very long week, I want to start crying, too, but my mom cautions me not to. “You can’t show babies fear,” she tells me. “They can smell it.”

I don’t know if she’s kidding or not. “I just want him to stop crying,” I reply, practically begging. “Why won’t he stop crying? What am I doing wrong?”

I’m rocking Michael as he wails, walking back in forth in the nursery. My mom is seated on the rocking chair that hadn’t worked on soothing Michael. Nothing seems to calm my baby. I think he is angry that I pushed