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October 16, 2005
Who's crying now?
Rex made the mistake of commenting that we were having a nice, peaceful evening. Both kids were down without a fight, we have nothing to do but jack off until Desperate Houswives comes on, and no crisis to avert. Less than a minute later, Katie started crying.
We've started letting her cry it out when she wakes up after we've put her to bed. Often, we let her cry to fall asleep at night, and even for naps when I can't get her to fall asleep any other way, and she's obviously cranky and needs something I can't seem to give her.
It breaks my heart every time.
I can't stand to hear my babies cry. Now that Jamie is older and can make some choices about what to cry about, I don't mind her crying so much. It's more annoying than anything. But when she was a baby, it used to tear me up. I'm only slightly better with Katie. I can let Katie cry for a couple minutes while I go to the bathroom, or to keep from burning dinner, although I don't like doing it. I understand that it won't hurt her. But at night, or for naps, I *can* fix it. I often don't have anything that's really more pressing. It's very hard to let the logical part of my mind that says she needs to learn to soothe herself and fall asleep on her own to overrule my heart.
Posted by me at October 16, 2005 8:15 PM