“She won’t eat all day!” Gillian spoke to Aunty May with anxiety over the long-distance phone line with one hand while carrying her crying baby with the other. “I tried feeding her but she spits everything back out.”
Gillian listened attentively to something Aunty May was saying. Then she felt her daughter’s forehead. “No, she doesn’t have a fever. But she won’t sleep either.” Then she pressed the speaker phone on so she could carry her almost 3 month-old daughter with both arms.
“She started crying again when you guys called. She’s been on and off like this the whole day.” Gillian tried cradling the baby against her bosom and was cooing her to stop crying, but nothing she did was working.
“When did she start acting like this?” Mr. Chan’s voice came across the phone and the baby suddenly stopped crying.
