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    A Child's Breath: Kopp Chronicles, #4
    A Child's Breath: Kopp Chronicles, #4
    A Child's Breath: Kopp Chronicles, #4
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    A Child's Breath: Kopp Chronicles, #4

    By Gregory Kopp

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    Enjoy the fourth volume in the celebrated Kopp Chronicles saga.  Based on a true story, a determined immigrant woman overcomes personal tragedy, and the temptations of a soldier's love amid the opulence of New York City High Society to triumph and begin life anew in rural America in the years before the Civil War.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKopp Company
    Release dateAug 31, 2017
    ISBN9781549501197
    A Child's Breath: Kopp Chronicles, #4
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    Gregory Kopp

    Gregory Kopp is an Amazon 5-Star Author, Graduate of Northwestern University and a Principal Consultant for Kopp Company, a privately held firm. Gregory is also a Talent Ambassador for The Walt Disney Company. The 5 Star acclaimed Kopp Chronicles series of novels have been nominated for Reader's Choice Awards, Goodreads Choice Awards and numerous "Cover of the Month" & "Book of the Day" Honors. The novels also received a glowing review and is a featured "First Lines" in "Publishers Weekly", an international news website of book publishing and bookselling.

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      A Child's Breath - Gregory Kopp

      Chapter One

      April 1854 Delphos, Ohio

      It was going to be a difficult birth and Karolina realized it rather quickly. Her water had broken, and she was already beginning to feel the contractions in her abdomen. She asked Stanislaus to hurry and fetch the town doctor to help her. Stanislaus ran as fast as he could down the stairs of the hotel and across the main street of Delphos to ask Doctor Reul for help in delivering their child.  Doctor Reul spotted Stanislaus immediately as he was crossing the street while staring out his front window during a break in reading, even before Stanislaus approached his front door. The doctor rose from his chair and turned to say goodbye to his wife, who was sitting in the easy chair next to him. He grabbed his coat and medical bag and met Stanislaus at his front door before Stanislaus could even knock. Doctor, come quick. My wife is having our baby, and she needs your help! Stanislaus exclaimed. So they both hurried back to the Traveler’s Rest Hotel to join Karolina in the tiny room, she shared with her husband and children.

      Stanislaus and Karolina and their two children had been staying at the Traveler’s Rest Hotel since they arrived in Delphos last December. Narrowly escaping the anti-Catholic rioting in Cincinnati, Ohio on Christmas day, 1853, they had traveled by wagon over a cold, frozen ground, barely even a trail, let alone a road. They were staying at the hotel while Stanislaus built a new log cabin on property he and Karolina had purchased outside of town.

      Karolina was doubled over by labor pain when they arrived and attempting to ease it by walking around the hotel room. Stanislaus sent their two young children outside to play in the hotel’s front yard while he and the doctor attended to his wife. The children cringed as they were leaving when they heard their mother moan in pain and were only too happy to comply with their father’s wishes. Karolina was trying anything she could to ease the labor pain, but it was not helping, and her moans were becoming increasingly louder. A woman from the hotel room across the hall offered her a cup of water, but Karolina shook her head and kept pacing around the room.

      Doctor Reul helped her to lie down on the small bed and then offered her a small amount of laudanum, but she refused it. Instead, she held Stanislaus’s hand tightly while he winced from her strong grip. Later, the town doctor urged her to push when he saw the baby’s head begin to crown as he examined her, so she screamed and pushed as hard as she could to deliver the baby. Finally, after what seemed an eternity to Karolina, the baby was delivered, and she could relax. A few moments later, she asked the doctor what was the baby’s sex, and he proudly proclaimed It is a boy! Stanislaus and the doctor laughed and Karolina wept for joy.

      Stanislaus hugged Karolina but they both soon realized their baby was not crying. Doctor Reul was leaning over the newborn baby and had a worried look on his face. The baby began to turn blue from lack of oxygen and Karolina cried out Doctor, what is it? Why isn’t he breathing? The town doctor ignored her and continued compressing the infant’s chest and encouraging him to breathe. Breathe, child, breathe! he whispered. After what seemed an eternity, the baby began to take a few shallow and irregular breaths. Soon the baby’s breathing began to become deeper, and he also began to cry. They were small cries at first, but quickly he began to cry louder. Doctor Reul straightened up and smiled at Karolina and Stanislaus with a relieved look on his face. Karolina and Stanislaus hugged each other again. The doctor finished cleaning the infant, wrapped him in a blanket, and gave him to Karolina to hold. She held him gently and began to soothe him while he slowly began to fall asleep.

      Doctor Reul asked the couple what the given name of the infant was in order to record it on his birth certificate. Karolina said loudly Johannes and Stanislaus agreed. Stanislaus then slapped the town doctor on his back and thanked him. He asked Doctor, how can we repay you? The town doctor told him No worries, Sir. Remember me next fall when you harvest your crops and he gave him a smile. Inwardly he winced when he said that for he knew he would have to tell his wife again about another patient who could not pay his medical bill. His wife would scold him when he returned home with only a promise to pay him for his medical care with the proceeds from the next harvest. She would

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