Dakota Dawn (2012)
“Doctor Harmon looked up at Carl Detschman, the pacing father-to-be. “If’n ya can’t stand still, get on out to the other room. You men are all alike. You say you want to help and then you make matters worse.”
“I’m sorry.” The tall man with eyes the faded blue of sun-bleached skies tore his fingers through his thatch of wheaten hair. “I just never—”
“That’s the problem, you men never—and I never shoulda asked you to help, but Anna here insisted. I shoulda stayed by my rule—no men ever in the birthing room. Go on out and tend your cows or something.”
“But this,” Carl waved his hand at the woman he loved, the woman who had now been in labor for a day and a night. “How much more can she stand?” Torn between leaving like the doctor said or staying to help if he could, Carl resumed his pacing.
At a groan from his patient, the doctor stopped lecturing the man and turned back to the woman lying limp on the bed, slowly recovering from the small dose of laudanum he had administer...ed to her.MoreLess
“I’m sorry.” The tall man with eyes the faded blue of sun-bleached skies tore his fingers through his thatch of wheaten hair. “I just never—”
“That’s the problem, you men never—and I never shoulda asked you to help, but Anna here insisted. I shoulda stayed by my rule—no men ever in the birthing room. Go on out and tend your cows or something.”
“But this,” Carl waved his hand at the woman he loved, the woman who had now been in labor for a day and a night. “How much more can she stand?” Torn between leaving like the doctor said or staying to help if he could, Carl resumed his pacing.
At a groan from his patient, the doctor stopped lecturing the man and turned back to the woman lying limp on the bed, slowly recovering from the small dose of laudanum he had administer...ed to her.MoreLess
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