The midwife showed up the next day. She was around her mothers age, and went by the name of Cora. Apparently Doctor McNally talked to Cora about Abby’s problems breast feeding so Abby didn’t have to go into embarrassing detail.
Abby wasn’t spared embarrassment long as the midwife went upstairs to show her how to express milk with her hands. Cora was sick of the young girls embarrassment. She said simply,
“Do you want to learn how to feed your child or do you want her to die? Because that is the reality you are facing if you do not mature.” Abby sobered at that, the woman was right. If she could deal with an adult man pulling a baby out of her female parts. Then she could deal with a female teaching her to feed her child. Since she was so hopeless inept. When she mentioned that to the mi
