Picking up a crying baby - is it always necessary

Ok hun your not a bad mother, sometimes they just cry.

I always pick up Ashton, but with my other 2 I didn't, I am having another aproach this time ;)

I think it's more that i don't like the thought of him crying, and me not being there to comfort him and how that would make him feel. Usually they are crying for a reason, sometimes a reason you can't fix like a tummy ache, head ache or they might be bored.

Have you thought of a carrier? I have a Mei Tai which he goes in when he is cranky which usually shuts him up. It's great cos I put him on my back and he settles and likes the closeness and I have 2 free hands and no sore arms/shoulders lol

Good luck with it hun :) It is a personal choice really.

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We really got a lot out of this DVD. They also offer techniques for comforting a crying baby, a baby with wind pain etc.

My DH will walk through the shops and decipher cries from strangers babies... "Oh, that one has lower wind pain, or that one is hungry". LOL

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: that is hillarious!!

You can hire the DBL dvd from libraries too :) Mine had a copy. I brought mine off ebay but for the $40 I paid I wish I had of borrowed the library copy, as he only did those cries for a couple of months.

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Am off now to give little Daniella a nice cuddle....:p

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Awww.... :)

yeah im more out of interest wanting to see it. Iain is growing out of those baby baby cries & really (not to toot my own horn) im pretty in tune any way & the only time my babies cry is in the car when I can't stop & tend tot hem straight away.
Wasn't always like that though.