Day Five: Cluster

This is part of a creative project called 100 Word, 100 Days. In this project I’ll be writing a 100 word piece about my experience as a new mother every day for 100 days. Read more here.

Feed her, she falls asleep, I put her down, she cries, repeat. Feed her, she falls asleep, I put her down, she cries, repeat. Feed her, she falls asleep, I put her down, she cries, repeat. Feed her, she falls asleep, I put her down, she cries, I cry, repeat.

I tell her she better be going through a growth spurt with all her eating. She stares back at me with her enormous jewel toned eyes, as if asking what more important things I have to do than to nurse my baby. The laundry and dishes are a paltry answer.