Starting to read NCSS

Chrysallys

OMG, page 10's quote from The Continuum Concept killed me. How heartbreaking. It totally made me tear up and I'd go snuggle with DS except he's napping his one nap of the day and I'd hate to wake him up.

alina*marie

I know! When I read that I got all weepy too. I still think about it whenever I think about CIO

DarcyLongfellow

What does it say? I haven't read NCSS yet.

Chrysallys

DarcyLongfellow:

What does it say? I haven't read NCSS yet.

"He awakes in a mindless terror of the silence, the motionlessness. He screams. He is afire from head to foot with want, with desire, with intolerable impatience. He gasps for breath and screams until his head is filled and throbbing with the sound. He screams until his chest aches, until his throat is sore. He can bear the pain no more and his sobs weaken and subside. He listens. He opens and closes his fists. He rolls his head from side to side. Nothing helps. It is unbearable. He begins to cry again, but it is too much for his strained throat; he soon stops. He stiffens his desire-racked body and there is a shadow of relief. He waves his hands and kicks his feet. He stops, able to suffer, unable to think, unable to hope. He listens. Then he falls asleep. "

This was in reference to an anthropoligical book discussing what a baby might feel like if left to CIO.

DarcyLongfellow

Chrysallys:

DarcyLongfellow:

What does it say? I haven't read NCSS yet.

"He awakes in a mindless terror of the silence, the motionlessness. He screams. He is afire from head to foot with want, with desire, with intolerable impatience. He gasps for breath and screams until his head is filled and throbbing with the sound. He screams until his chest aches, until his throat is sore. He can bear the pain no more and his sobs weaken and subside. He listens. He opens and closes his fists. He rolls his head from side to side. Nothing helps. It is unbearable. He begins to cry again, but it is too much for his strained throat; he soon stops. He stiffens his desire-racked body and there is a shadow of relief. He waves his hands and kicks his feet. He stops, able to suffer, unable to think, unable to hope. He listens. Then he falls asleep. "

This was in reference to an anthropoligical book discussing what a baby might feel like if left to CIO.

Poor little angel :-( I honestly didn't know until recently that CIO could mean ignoring a baby in the middle of the night. I can understand why someone might do Ferber to put a baby to sleep initially, but I cannot imagine not going to comfort a baby that cried in the middle of the night.