The parent feels silly and
stops listening to the baby.
Not exact matches
At this point, your
baby is starting
to respond
to you and will
stop doing what they are doing in order
to listen to you or watch you if you come into a room or make a noise, for example.
I think
babies do need
to be
listened to,
to have time where they aren't bounced or overfed or distracted, when they are just held in our arms and get
to soak up our loving care and attention without it being our aim
to stop the tears.
Stop listening to all those parents who tell you that their
baby goes
to bed at 7 am and sleeps through the night.
After I accepted that my daughter just was not a child who was going
to sleep for long stretches at night (she will be two soon and still wakes
to nurse every two or three hours), it
stopped bothering me, and now I, too, take those quiet moments
to breathe in her
baby hair smell and
listen to her small sleepy sounds.
Listening to your
baby cry is tough for any mother, but having no way
to put a
stop to the sound is downright distressing.
I know that if I had
listened to the lactation consultant, I would have HAD
to stop nursing, because it was either I get the
baby's weight up, or he winds up in the hospital, and that would have been the end of any hope of getting my nursing back on track.
The kids aren't
listening to you, the
baby won't
stop crying and it would be really, really nice if someone would help you out.
If your
baby responds, then you can
stop talking,
listen to what the
baby says and then you can again start talking.
Instead,
stop for a few seconds and
listen to your
baby to determine if they're simply fussing, or if they're really worked up enough that they need you
to comfort them.
Whether complaining that after Suge Knight and Queen took their cuts from «Ice Ice
Baby» (60 and 50 percent, respectively) he actually owes money every time the song is played, or
listening to Sandler imploring him
to «
stop, collaborate, and
listen,» Ice imbues his surprisingly meaty supporting turn with just the right air of don't - give - a-fuck self - deprecation.
If I had
to summarize my 43 years of research into one sentence... it would be, «When you're hurting
baby, the world
stops, and I
listen.»»
We are «taught» that a
baby crying can only be a bad thing and should be
stopped at all costs, but when we consider that crying is a form of communication, we can get past this notion and
stop to listen to the story our
baby is telling us instead of shushing her and in essence telling her we're not interested in what she has
to say.