It’s funny how perceptions and fears can change over the course of a pregnancy. At first, I was very trepidatious about how on earth I could ever love R as much as I love E. E and I have had so many moments–so much time–that R and I won’t ever be able to have, because E was once an only…
Year: 2009
Cry it out: stubbornness!
So, it turns out that being convinced of cry-it-out and being accomplished at it are two different things! E has defied all expectations–in a bad way. After some three whole weeks of misery, we’re still at misery. A lot less misery than there was a week ago, but the child is still crying every time we put her down, taking…
Cry-It-Out: Trials, Trevails, and… Joys?
I was about as anti-cry-it-out as one can be without being a left-wing extremist post-hippie natural mama. Not that I’d go around telling other parents that they were traumatizing their children, but I’d sit there and be quietly smug about the fact that my child could rest assured that her parents loved her and met her needs. In my defense,…