Well that didn't work too well :-(
Put H down at 8pm, he slept until 8.45 then proceeded to scream his head off for 2 hours. Both G and I went to him and attempted to soothe him but to no avail..... unless we carried him out of the bedroom of course, then he would stop crying. Soon as we go back in .......SCREAM. He finally screamed himself to sleep around 10.45. I feel AWFUL for allowing this to happen :-( :-( I just don't know what to do??
Posted by katie at November 22, 2004 11:14 PMFrom the yards and yards of experience I have from not being a parent :)
I think you have to leave him to scream (and apologise to any non-deaf neighbours)... as it's the only way he is going to get used to this part of the "routine".
After all, do you remember screaming the house down when your parents first did this? Does G? Does D?
On the grounds that I bet none of you actually do I'd say there is a 100% chance H won't either and once you get past the terror of it then it will be so much better for you all.
But then, as Manuel from Fawlty Towers would no doubt claim... "I know nothing, I learn Ingleesh from a book".
Posted by: Aka at November 23, 2004 04:18 AMMore free advice from a decidedly non-kids person:
Let him scream. It's what kids do. If you run to him and carry him around and pay attention to him every time he screams, then he's got you trained and he will continue to scream any time he feels like a little attention.
If you let him scream, it's annoying as hell for the rest of the family, but eventually he'll figure it out: screaming gets him nowhere.
Buy some earplugs or sound-cancelling headphones :-)
Posted by: Steve at November 24, 2004 03:35 PM