10 Reasons Why I Will Never Let My Baby Cry It Out...
/By: Kristy Kemp
Finally home with your newborn baby. No more nurses to cheer you on, no more doctors around to ask the twenty some odd questions that pops in your head every twenty minutes, no more lactation consultants showing up as soon as you call, to help get baby to latch, & no more hospital staff to get your baby in that perfectly tight swaddle you could bounce a quarter off of. Just you and your baby. Just you and that tiny little human that was just kicking from inside your belly just nights before. Just you and your baby that you carried inside your belly for months dreaming about the day you would actually get to hold him in your arms. The time is finally here. You soon realize taking care of your baby outside the womb is a whole different ballgame, but you just take it day by day.
Something you were not prepared for was how much one small little baby could eat, cry, & poop , oh my the poop, so much poop and tears, poopy tears, oh look, new mom brain showing through I'm blending words. The sleep deprivation and laundry is starting to show, the tears from how sore your nipples are, and the fantasies of being able to shower again. As tired, stressed, and smelly as I may be I will never neglect my baby , I will never leave him to cry it out. It seems silly that I would even need to say that, say that I will never allow my precious newborn baby to cry and cry and cry and be scared , alone, and wondering why, no one comes, until eventually the crying stops because of physical exhaustion. My sleep may get interrupted and it may take ten attempts to finally get all the dishes loaded into the dishwasher, but all that other stuff can wait because when my baby needs me I drop everything , no questions asked.
