Let me caution you also not to get hung up on burping. Somewhere in the distant past,some mother found that her baby was less apt to spit up his lunch if she patted him on the back until excessair was released from his stomach. Some babies swallow a lot of air and readily produce.
See full list on naturalchild. Children cry because they are hungry, or lonely, or tire or wet, or in pain.
Compassionate people do not withhold comfort from adults who are crying, for whatever reason. Pick him up and find out why. If he cries at night because he is lonely or afrai take him intoyour bed. See Ten Reasons to Sleep Next to Your Child at Night. Psychologists and psychiatrists always give me a bad time when I make that lastrecommendation.
I recall being on the Phil Donahue show with Tine Thevenin, authorofThe Family Be and a psychiatrist who was invoking the Oedipuscomplex and other pet theories to try to put her down. Donahue turned to me for my opinion, and I told him Iagreed with the psychiatrist. I said that psychiatrists should not take their children to bed with them, butthat it wa.







