I am so pleased with Hannah

[Cookiebaker]

Yea, i totally agree with you guys!

I firmly believe that babies NEED to be held and cuddled. I was criticized soooo badly by a family member right after Lydia was born. She was 3 days old, and he told me that I was spoiling her. Well if thats spoiling, then I want my daughter to be spoiled rotten!

I rocked Lydia to sleep until she was about 13-14 months old, and then gradually weaned her to falling asleep in her crib. I never did a "Cry-it-out" with her. She loves her crib, and if she isn't sleepy she will play in there until she falls asleep. No crying. Like right now, I am listening to her sing as she gets ready for nap time. BTW, I still rock, and sing and talk to her before every bedtime/naptime. Its sooo important to build a foundation for a relationship of communication. I want her to be able to tell me everything that goes on in her head, and that starts now.

So rock them babies, love on them, and hold them tight because they grow up wayyy too fast!!!

[prechrswife]

We have one of each. Mary Joyce never would let us rock her to sleep completely. She likes to cuddle at night, and we rock and read books and sing songs, but she has always gone to sleep on her own. As much as we wanted to rock her to sleep, it just never worked. Katherine, on the other hand, is a rock-to-sleep girl. She falls asleep every night in my lap or her daddy's, and that's the way it has always been with her. She'll be 11 months old this weekend.