A monumental event happened in our home last night: My almost six-year-old daughter, my oldest, came to me sometime in the middle of the night after a scary dream to ask if she could sleep in my bed for the night. Half asleep, I pulled a pillow next to me and spread my blanket over [...]
Read More →Sometimes, babies cry. They do. Even when we’re the most attentive, most attuned parents. And all we can do is to hold them and do our best to soothe them as they cry out their frustrations. My son is five months old now. Today, he cried for nearly an hour before he fell asleep. I [...]
Read More →I normally don’t let my baby cry. I detest the practice of crying-it-out. I think it’s cruel, both to the baby and to the mother. I believe that babies cry for a reason, and that reason is usually because they need to eat, they just got poked at the doctor’s office, or they’re separated from [...]
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