Letter from Mrs. Martin CF 86
To his brother Isidore Guérin
17 January 1873.
...I worry extremely about my little Thérèse. I'm afraid she has a bowel disease, I notice the same alarming symptoms as in my other children who died. Should we still lose this one?
Tell me how I should feed her, if bread water with half milk is okay? She's only been sleeping since half past three this morning. We make her drink while she sleeps, so she took almost nothing.
I don't know if it's weakness that causes this sleep and I'm very distressed. For me, I hardly sleep more than two hours, because I am almost constantly around the little one who, for some time, has been very restless for some of the nights.
If you could write to me and encourage me with your advice, that would make me very happy, because I have great need of it.
