I'm only pregnant. My bub isn't even born yet and I have people telling me to CC. It really annoys me. I plan to Not use cc and I know I'm going to get alot of comments and S**t about it when he is born but I'm not going to let him cry to make everyone else happy.
TBH the thought of CC makes me shudder. But as the other ladies have said, it is one of the first thing people ask you 'does he sleep through?' DS is not even 10 weeks yet and it seems that people think it is some sort of 'fault' that he doesn't sleep with waking.
At the moment he wakes 2 sometimes three times for a feed, nappy change and then back to bed. On the odd occasion it takes a while for him to settle, but usually he nods of while feeding. But my point is, he is a baby, that is what they do, I am not going to ignore his crys because of some sort of social pressure to confirm to a timetable. It doesn't bother me, I'd love to have unbroken sleep but it is so much more important to me that my son knows 'mum is always there'.
I was talking to my Mum about this just yesterday she demand fed, let us self wean and didn't control cry with my two sisters and I. Bringing up babies in the 70's 60's with this sort of approach meant that people would call her a Hippie, I guess now we are called softies. Mum said whenever people asked her if we were sleeping through, she said her reply would be 'oh and yes they have all been toilet trained since 6 months' in a sarcastic tone and leave it at that.
So after my ramble I guess I'm trying to say that you are doing exactly what is right for you and your baby. I would be over the moon if DS was one of the babies that slept through from early on, but he isn't so I'm over the moon that he is going to grow up knowing that Mum and Dad are always there.
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