Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but I needed to vent a little.

Our little boy has never been a great sleeper however he has settled down so much in the last few weeks. He's having good sleeps through the day and a big night sleep. (of course he's waking up for feeds & dummy sometimes though...but not enough to worry me)

We have always had to rock him to sleep in the cot and while in the early days I would get frustrated due to my own tiredness, now I am more than happy to get him to sleep calmy. He also now goes to sleep in his bouncer through the day though without too much assistance.

At one stage we tried to let him cry at the advice of others and once only was enough as he worked himself up so much that it broke my heart and I can't handle seeing him so upset when it can be so easily fixed.

I think he just likes the comfort of us being around him as he also gets very upset if he's left alone in a room for longer than 30sec and likes to be involved in everything we do - which is fine.

What I'm really annoyed about is the amount of people questioning our (me & dh) parenting choices.
Today I was "told" by a family day care woman that I was being a bad parent for not teaching my baby to sleep for himself and I wasn't helping him at all. She told me that it may take a few hard days of letting him scream but that he would learn eventually. Learn what? That his mum an dad aren't there for him when he needs us??

Like Linda said in a previous post - I never thought I'd feel this way and thought that I would want to follow strict routines etc but it's just not in me. I think a lot of these routines are selfish and just purely cater to parents and not what a bubba really wants.

I'm so sorry for the big vent....I'm just feeling very frustrated that people can make me feel so awful about my parenting choices. No one should have the right to do that....