Lucy P

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this:

"Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.? Peggy O'Mara, Editor, Mothering magazine 

From your siggy

Of course we have not had any real sleep issues here, but oh my I so agree. We have never been proponents of CIO. Again, we have never felt desperate with lack of sleep from our kids, but wow, that struck me hard!

LucyPevensie

I love this quote too - it really, really spoke to me - especially because I have SEEN moms on the bump post about feeling really upset and distraught over this very issue - only to be told "stay strong!  you HAVE to do it!  don't give in!" and I just loved how this quote really presents another side.  You don't HAVE to do it.  And if everything inside of you is screaming "I want to pick up my baby!" then that's EXACTLY what you should do, not stand unmoving outside the door with your heart pounding, while your baby screams and cries in a crib on the other side.   

It's all over so fast - so fast.  Something I am struck more and more by every day - I mean we're already visiting PRESCHOOLS for God's sakes.  The young baby stuff is so fleeting.  And the obsession with teaching babies to sleep, and everybody asking new moms "how's he/she sleeping?" and pressuring new moms to let baby CIO, and not hold baby too much or you'll spoil him/her!!  It's just nuts. 

Hence, my siggy quotes!  Just offering another perspective.