Okie dokie, an area of heated debate between mum and I. I don't and won't let Jazz cry herself to sleep. Not that she ever would anyway, she'd just work herself up into a screaming fit.

And what I mean by cry is... anything that is constant and wailing. Her whingey "ner ner eeeeeeeeeeeeeeer ner neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer" is not a cry to me. Friggen annoying, and I hate listening to it as it grates on me! But not a cry. Pretty much anything beyond that I don't really like her to do, for more than a few minutes at most.

I was on the phone to mum and Jazz had woken up and started crying (my definition of a cry) and I walked into the room and said "hang on, Jazz is crying I'll just get her up" to which mum said "oh the little sook, shes not crying she just being a sook, leave her there til she settles down"



BTW, Jazz has never settled herself once shes started crying. She may or may not settle herself when shes whinging, but never crying. I generally let the whinge go until she starts crying (or settles herself down).

I pick Jazz up and internally sigh, knowing whatever I say next will lead to the "you're spoiling her" lecture, and block out the next 5 minutes. I did catch the part where mum told me her definition of a cry... which is my drop everything and run cry (literally, I've broken a plate when Jazz cried like that, I was sitting on the couch with a sandwich on my lap, on a plate, and she did the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH heart stopping scream and I jumped up and smash went the plate...).

Anyway... what is your definition of a cry?

Oh, Shel on the other hand will jump up and get Jazz if she's been whinging for more than a few minutes, even if it hasn't turned into a cry.

What do you do? What is a cry in your books? Is my 'whinge' a cry? When do you pick your bub up?