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LILA
The loud, piercing cries of a baby woke me up. Next
to me, Maddox startled awake and then groaned. I
grabbed my phone from the nightstand, checking
the time, and saw that it was just after four in the morning.
We only slept for an hour – barely.
The wailing continued, sounding both angry and
impatient.
Iris Catalina Coulter came into this world with a loud,
fierce cry and she hasn’t stopped telling the world how
displeased she was with being born.
My stomach cramped at the thought of going into the
nursery to try and calm her down. I thought the boys were
a handful as babies, but compared to her, they were laidback
and even-tempered. Iris has been a little beast since
we came home from the hospital. She barely slept. She was
grumpy and wanted to be held all the time. She cried
twenty-four-seven. At first, we were worried something was
wrong, but after countless phone calls and visits to her
pediatrician, we were told Iris was perfectly healthy,
meaning she was just a grumpy baby.
But it was more than that.
I knew it. I could feel it.
I was her mother, after all.