Good grief. I always pick the best days to come play.

LongLiveTheQueen · April 2010

0-3 is in an uproar over some dingbat letting her 3 DAY OLD CIO.

ETA: I am happy to see that she apologized. I really hope she gets the info she needs.

BelleBaby · April 2010

I love the post about CIO being child abuse and grounds for calling child services. Just wait a few months....

Just for clarification (so I don't get flamed), CIO is NOT appropriate for 0-3. 6-12 mamas, have at it if it's what you want to do.

sgrl · April 2010

Yeah, I wish I had not lurked today.

Cityplanner · April 2010

I love the word dingbat.

I have nothing further to contribute to this discussion.

carolinagirl220 · April 2010

link pls

ivs112 · April 2010

45 minutes???? I've never let DD cry for more than 5 minutes. I honestly cannot imagine listening to a 3 DAY OLD cry, helplessly for 45 minutes. That's disgusting.

Sweetgurl6630@yahoo.com · April 2010

ivs112:
45 minutes???? I've never let DD cry for more than 5 minutes. I honestly cannot imagine listening to a 3 DAY OLD cry, helplessly for 45 minutes. That's disgusting.

This. We let DS cry for 12 minutes before he fell asleep the other night....but he's 10 months old.

mavilabride · April 2010

Link

But she came back and said she realized it was wrong.

Honestly, to read that a 3 day old baby was CIO for 45 minutes made me sick to my stomach. Can you imagine being cradled in the womb for 9 months and on your 3rd day of life in a new, cold, and different world you're just left there to cry.

Ugh makes me ill.

sgrl · April 2010

Yeah, letting a 3-day-old CIO is horrible, but I think that CPS would probably not be too interested. I mean, you have people beating their kids and burning them with cigarettes, CIO is probably pretty low on the priority list.

LongLiveTheQueen · April 2010

mavilabride:

Link

But she came back and said she realized it was wrong.

Honestly, to read that a 3 day old baby was CIO for 45 minutes made me sick to my stomach. Can you imagine being cradled in the womb for 9 months and on your 3rd day of life in a new, cold, and different world you're just left there to cry.

Ugh makes me ill.

Amen, Mav.

sgrl · April 2010

I am proud of her for admitting she was wrong, but it does make me ill. I was looking at newborn pics of Sadie this week and I can't get over how teeny tiny and helpless she was. It makes me feel all Mama Bear thinking about such a wee one crying for so long.

Temp534591562502098 · April 2010

I think she explained herself wrong. I think the baby was crying for 45 mins while they were doing things to soothe her, but nothing was working.

J0C0TX · April 2010

I will confess that when I was exhausted and not thinking straight when DD was about 2 weeks old I thought I was supposed to let her CIO. It lasted about 3 minutes, if that. It felt like hours. Then I just cuddled, snuggled etc., spoke with my mom the next morning who laughed & said no, not yet, wait a few more months, when she will figure it out. That made me feel foolish, but not horrible.

Sometimes it's exhaustion & unclear thinking that can lead to the CIO too young situation. Now - DD is 7 months and some nights when she goes down she fusses & musses a little and goes off to sleep. I don't like it to escalate, but I also don't run in at the first cry. IMO neither of those options are too healthy.

TrumpetBride · April 2010

Just saw that, and I miss you mama!

deltagirl79 · April 2010

sugrfrejaz:
I think she explained herself wrong. I think the baby was crying for 45 mins while they were doing things to soothe her, but nothing was working.

I really hope that you are right. That whole thread is making me so sad I can't even finish it.

We have friends with a DD 4 weeks younger than DS, they let her CIO at 6 weeks. I started crying when I read her fb status about it.

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