Will you attend to your baby immediately

@cwong77 (2010)
Malaysia
July 9, 2009 8:34am CST
As parents, beside taking care of the child, we will have other stuff to do as well. We will normally then leave our child on their own for a while. However, sometimes child can be demanding for attention, and would make a fuss out of it. Will you attend to your baby immediately if he / she start to cry? For me, I will let her cry for a while, like a few minutes before attending to her as she may be spoilt for attention, and will be difficult if I have some urgent stuff to attend to.
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@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
9 Jul 09
In every different cases, I will have different actions upon their demanding. But I would say for those who have the first baby, they will act more panic when their baby cries. Same goes to me... Me and my husband used to attend immediately to my daughter which is also our first child. When come to the second baby, the story has change... we both take slow motion on his demanding and keep pushing each others to go and check what he want... LOL
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@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
30 Aug 09
Hello Cwong, thanks for the best response, I am so happy to received the compliment. Sometimes, being a mother is not easy. We can not be to soft to them, can not to strict to the kids. Same goes to their demanding. If we attend their demand too fast, it will make them cry and ask for demand as much as they want. Some how if they unattended, we will worry what is going to happen to them. I would suggest parents take time to recognize the characters for the babies.
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 09
hi vingyan.. you deserve it.. and being in MyLot, nothing bids a best response denoting for one ya... And yes, I think it's never be easy to be parents, especially mothers.. and now being one, I can truly understand this statement of not being easy as a mother..
@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 09
vingyan06, LOL.. it seems this is happening to every 2nd time parents once they gone through the first "demanding" issues... Most of my friends tell me this too :)
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@shuetyeng (146)
• Malaysia
3 Sep 09
I used to attend to my girl almost immediately whenever she needed me (When she was a baby). I can clearly remembered that I cried a lot during my confinement period. Maybe because I just gave a lot of pressure to myself to attend her for every single minutes? Sometimes when she cried, I cried too! It was really an embarrassed matter to talk about. But things do not stay the same now. She has grow older therefore I could communicate to her and let her know that mommy could not stay with her all the time. So she needs to be alone with television, books, toys and etc. If she fall down and cried, for sure I will rush to her and check on her...or else, she will come to me and I will attend her.
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 09
shuetyeng, I think your baby knows how to get to your nerves too hah.. and being a first time parents, I think it happen that way.. My mum has constantly telling me not to do that to my baby, but being a mother, we can't be that hard hearted ya.. and you cry with your baby? poor mummy.... Well, as our child gets older, they tend to understand the 'human' language and will be able to be more on themselves.. and when they totally on their own, we wanted them to come back to our side.. mothers.. just contradicting ya..
• Malaysia
7 Sep 09
I was very panic when I heard my baby cries. My mom told me that it wont hurt her if she cries for five minutes, but as a first time mommy, I will surely stopped from whatever I was doing and rush out for her. As you said, we could not be that hard hearted. I have read from a parenting magazine, it stated that it is important for the parents to attend to the baby cries, because this will make the baby know that she has communicate with us successfully. And she grows she will trust that we could take good care of her. Therefore, she will cry less and even shorter period. I agreed with you cwong, sometimes I really missed the moment that she needed me and those precious moment that we spent together. Happy Parenting to you and have a nice day!
• United States
16 Jul 09
I'm a firm believer in cry it out. Children need to self soothe and learning that behavior comes from the parents not picking it up every time it cries or sniffles or makes a sound. There have been more than one long nights in my house when my DD didn't want to sleep. We put her in her crib, turned the lights off and turned on her Fisher Price aquarium and let her cry herself to sleep. She's not going to remember that mommy and daddy didn't come running, so why oh why do some parents think it's necessary to do so?
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
17 Jul 09
MysticTomatoes, you are right though... our baby would not remember if we did ran to them in times to come, however, the noise that they created isn't a pain in our ears? Most parents attend to them maybe just couldn't stand the way the BB scream for attention.
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@busky5 (3164)
• Thailand
28 Jul 09
When my son was a baby i ever gave him alone for awhile, but when i came back to him i was shock he made the room mess and tore my wallpaper, since that day i didn't gave him alone.
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
28 Jul 09
busky5, your son sure know where to vent his boredom ya.. for mine, she is still too young, and only needed the attention that someone around to watch over her.. and since she will make some good noise to let me know she is bored..
@submerryn (1304)
• Malaysia
9 Jul 09
The first couple of months, I will attend to her immediately. After that, after I am able to recognise her 5 different tones of crying, I'll know if she is in pain, hungry, bored, hot or any others, so I will know if to attent immediately or can wait a couple of minutes longer. It's important to recognise the different crying sounds of your baby.
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 09
submerryn... haha.. yup, they have the tones of everything and we just can't get bullied by that ya :)
• United States
4 Sep 09
Well, when my first daughter was born, I would almost always hold her when she was crying, because I really didn't know what else to do! But now, I am definitely a lot more experienced with motherhood, and they DO say that no baby can ever get enough love and attention from their parent, and that they cannot get spoiled from that love and attention at their young age. Now, with my littlest child, she often cries whenever I walk away or if I am not near her, but I let her whine and cry for a little while, unless she is hungry or teething, then I rush to her aide because I know she is crying for a personal need. But, I know she gets jealous because she has an older sister and wants me to have all the attention on her, that is why she cries when I am not by her lol, but I need to share my love with both children :D
@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 09
I think it's commonly happen to all first time parents that we shower our baby with the utmost 'immediate' reaction when they start to whine and cry ya.. Just like myself, I have also slowly learn to let my girl whine for a while before attending to her, but lately, since she is teething, I let her have the upperhand, and I hope it's not going to be too long coz I may have not enough time to be by her side all the time.. thanks for the response, hmfryklund
• United States
9 Jul 09
When my youngest was a baby and she cried, yes I let her cry for a little bit before attending to her. It also depended on her cry though, you always can tell the cry from I'm hurt, or I just want attention. The I just want attention cry would usually stop before I got there and she found a way to entertain herself. Now that she is older she plays by herself when her older brother and sister are playing something she can't. So I think it benefits them in older years.
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@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 09
imajerseygirl, now you can have more time on your own once she gets her own independent time ya :)