The hall was quiet until she heard the baby cry. She was a little startled at first but she calmed down once she knew what it was. She began to creep towards the room the baby was in, to see if something was wrong. She poked her head around the corner and she saw the baby just crying away. She really didn’t feel like being bothered but she knew she was going to have to do something; or the noise would continue. She decided that she would go make the baby a bottle because that always worked before. Once the bottle was complete she rushed in the room to give the baby the bottle, but she rejected it. The mother didn’t know what to do because the bottle trick usually always worked. The baby continued to holler until her mother picked up her favorite toy and handed it to her. The mother was pleased because now she could relax, but little did she know once she would walk out the room the baby would start the screaming up again. This time the mother was fed up, she didn’t know what to do, so she tried handing the toy back to the baby, it didn’t work. This time she screamed even louder than before and it seemed as if nothing was going to stop it. So she decided to give up and just walk out the room for good. She went in the front room and sat on the couch. She’d tried masking the noise with the television but that didn’t help. She’d tried turning on some really loud music but that didn’t help. She actually decided to leave the house to escape the noise, but her conscience started to set in. She began to second guess herself as a mother by asking questions like, “Why can’t I help my baby?,” “Why aren’t I a good mother?” She then decided to go back to the room the baby was in and pick her up. The baby immediately stopped crying, she was amazed. She came to realize that all the baby really wanted was her love and attention.
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