whoop-coughing

Updated: May 28, 2025

Deborah, unless she was teething or whoop-coughing, was a quiet baby, and would lie for hours on the nurse's lap, sucking at a "pacifier" made of bread and sugar tied up in a muslin rag, and previously chewed to a pulp by the nurse. And while the baby sucked the nurse told us things things that we must remember when we went to bed at night.

Mary Antin - The Promised Land