The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity (2012)
“No one had told her that the most painful part of childbirth would be the throbbing ache of her breasts filling with milk afterwards. But then, if there had been a baby suckling, relieving some of the pressure, the pain would not have been so bad. Of course, if there had been a baby, she could have happily endured any pain. But Tomás was dead.
This wasn’t supposed to happen, not to her. Stillbirths happened to other women; women who watched Hallmark Specials on the Lifetime channel while smokin...g a cigarette or slamming back another beer. Marisol had done everything right. And yet with all her worrying about the baby’s health during her pregnancy, she had never thought to worry that her son wouldn’t survive being born.
When a knock sounded at her door she looked up out of habit, not because there was anyone she wanted to see. It was a nurse, one who’d been present at her delivery and who’d come by since to ask her to donate colostrum and breast milk. Her lilting accent hinted at Gaelic origins, but this was New York.MoreLess
This wasn’t supposed to happen, not to her. Stillbirths happened to other women; women who watched Hallmark Specials on the Lifetime channel while smokin...g a cigarette or slamming back another beer. Marisol had done everything right. And yet with all her worrying about the baby’s health during her pregnancy, she had never thought to worry that her son wouldn’t survive being born.
When a knock sounded at her door she looked up out of habit, not because there was anyone she wanted to see. It was a nurse, one who’d been present at her delivery and who’d come by since to ask her to donate colostrum and breast milk. Her lilting accent hinted at Gaelic origins, but this was New York.MoreLess
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