My FFFC will probably get me flamed

Pennylane824 · November 2009

I just let DD cry in her swing until she fell asleep just now. It was about 10 minutes. She has been miserably cranky for the last 24 hours. She is fed, dry, and just insanely over tired. I've taken her for a walk, rocked her, sang to her and everything else that normally works and all she wanted to do was cry.

I set her in her swing so I could eat something and just kept giving her back her paci and she FINALLY fell asleep. I'm hoping this nap lasts a while and she wakes up a happier baby.

rebeccaontherocks · November 2009

No flames here. Sometimes all that makes my LO happy is to be left alone to complain to his mobile and then he passes out.

emmared1986 · November 2009

Eh, sometimes when G cries at night I lay a little longer in bed because I know he is fine and just wants to make noise

AMYfromKY · November 2009

I don't see a problem. It's not like you abandoned her or something. I have had that paci war more than once.

Shahlala · November 2009

my mom yells at me when im sleeping and rylen wakes up and cries because sometimes we just try to say SHH SHH for awhile. usually thats all it takes and she says that were just trying to shush him so we dont have to get up. not true. i just dont feel like getting up for nothing. if he doesnt go bak to sleep after a few shushes then we know that its something else. =/

he doesnt sleep for much at night anymore neways

Soap1 · November 2009

Sometimes DS is just fussy because he is way overtired. When I try to comfort him, it's like I'm overstimulating him and he just gets more fussy. I put him in the swing and give him 5 minutes of crying and he falls asleep. He is always much more pleasant when he wakes up!

If you were letting him cry for 30 minutes alone in his swing that would be one thing, but sometimes they just get too tired and it makes them cranky!

snowflake19 · November 2009

No flames here. I have had a little mister fussy pants on my hands since last night. I think that Thanksgiving was way to overstimulating for him. He finally took a nap on my chest this morning and I didn't even try to move him. He woke up a much happier guy.

jrnewhook · November 2009

No flames.

I'm so not looking forward to the time when she's been crying long enough for me to let her cry and not want to pick her up. Or when picking her up doesn't work. When she's super cranky I put her chest to chest with me and rock her and she usually quiets down within 5 mins. It's pretty hard to have her screaming bloody murder in my ear. It makes us both cry Sad

pregnantchica · November 2009

emmared1986:
Eh, sometimes when G cries at night I lay a little longer in bed because I know he is fine and just wants to make noise

this.

TarheelsInNJ · November 2009

I think that's different from Cry It Out - not like you were doing this systematically to try to get her on a sleep schedule or something.

Lucky428 · November 2009

No flames. If you let her CIO and it took hours I'd be furious, but taking a ten minute break to eat is smart. You need a break on those days!!

bim38106 · November 2009

You know, when I was on this board for DD1 (who is now 21 months) this probably would have gotten totally flamed! Glad to see people are a bit more reasonable and less stepford-wifeish..

We've noticed w/ DD2 that if she gets overtired and is crying no matter what we do and fights sleep bad at night, that holding her makes it even worse. But if we set her down for a couple minutes to cry, then pick her back up, she falls right to sleep (figured that out on accident one night DH was soothing DD1 and I HAD to pee. In the time it took me to go to the bathroom and come back, she had gotten all that frustration out and was ready to sleep That's totally fine and now we know what works to get her to sleep when she's overtired Some babies just need their space too.

Love Sugar Sweet Minxy · November 2009

No flames here. DS was miserable all morning as well, and I finally put him in his bouncer seat which he normally loves and let him cry for about 10 minutes while I took a shower. I felt bad afterward though because he just kept snuggling into my shoulder like I'd abandoned him for weeks

BlairWaldorf · November 2009

dude, I do this.

Sometimes he is overstimulated, overtired, & just needs to "get it out" of his system. He'll cry for 10 minutes and then BAM, he's asleep & wakes up happier. Which is better for both of us in the long run.

SusieQ1982 · November 2009

I honestly don't think I could do this because it kills me to listen to him cry, but I can understand why you did and no flames.

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