Word: clothesbasket
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets to receive the newcomer, washed their hands, and composed themselves to watch a labor which no one expected for at least another month...
...fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib. 6 oz. The Dionne roosters were crowing for dawn while Dr. Dafoe washed up, eased his suspenders, donned his coat and drove back to his wifeless, book-filled home. He needed a little sleep, for later that day he expected another confinement...
Only God knew who was who and who was first in the clothesbasket. In the bustle of delivery Dr. Dafoe's helpers had misarranged the girls. Few days later, after Mrs. Dionne regained energy enough to think, she picked the names Cecile, Yvonne, Marie, Emily, Annette. A trained nurse tagged them thus, first come first named...
...Evening Journal* reached Elzire Dionne's bare bedroom, one of the quintuplets was dying. Two others were blue. Dr. Dafoe gave them two drops of rum each and popped them into the incubator which was too small to hold all five. The two strongest remained in their roomy clothesbasket, warmed with hot water bottles. Every two hours the trained nurse fed the quintuplets two medicine-droppers of milk, corn syrup and water. The feeding took so long that as soon as the nurse finished with No. 5 she had to recommence with...
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