How stupid...I need reassurence I am doing the right thing by using gently parent techniques!! I hate that term too btw...because for me it implies everything else isn't gentle...I dislike labelling anyway, but even though i fall into this category I hate using the term.
but the point to this, despite being random babbling...is whilst I was laying down with Spock so she would go to sleep in bed instead of the carrier, I was stroking her leg and she was peacefully going to sleep. and I probably didn't need to be there, because its not like I was soothing her when she was upset, but hey what harm does it do watching her drift off? but the stupid thing is as I was laying there thinking, everyone around me makes me feel guilty for doing it. I am made to feel guilty for not leaving my baby to cry =(. how warped and F'd up is that!!
This last couple of weeks has been hard. I think it is a combination of WW and teeth and maybe a cold...but she its the first time I really did feel I needed to put her down and walk away.... and the responce I got when trying to vent onto a sympathetic ear is, "so what? I do that all the time, give her an hour and she will wear herself out and get over it" =( just thinking about my helpless baby doing that breaks my heart. even when I was at wits end and setting her down and going to the next room just to take a deep breath make my heart shatter as I heard her helpless cries all she wanted was love and cuddles and her mummy..

I dont even know where I am going with this... just needed to get it out.