I HATE going places with baby in the car seat and he cries. It is so damn unnatural and I always think of those blissful bubbas in africa with no cars and just their mumma & a sling.
Oh, I feel the same!!
Agreed. All babies cry, it's how they communicate their needs.
They do communicate needs before the crying, as the crying is a last resort as a mama is sorting out her bilingual skills
I was told I was spoiling my first child by wearing him, co-sleeping, breastfeeding on demand and attending to him before he cried. He still cried and he was a bit more maintenance than my second. I did exactly the same things with her and was told exactly the same thing about rods for my back yaddiyaddah and she didn't have to be sling worn nearly as long during the day, and went longer between feeds (not 3 hours, but more than hourly or less!) and would fall asleep when I had laid her down on the bed and gone to organise myself (I'd turn around and be shocked that she'd done it without me! Didn't happen very often ). Now, I've got a 5.5yo boy who happily rides his bike down our road, calling out behind him that he'll be careful of snakes, and a 2yo girl who walks on on fallen logs in creeks maintaining great balance, both of them throw their arms around me and both of them are widely loved wherever they go. Spoilt? If that's the criteria, I'll take it and run
Happy babies. Sometimes (read: often) I'd get the signals wrong and I'd have a crying baby till I adjusted some circuits and wiggled some leads, and clearly, they're not broken because of it