Am I doing something wrong?

[ladydrace]

By advice from the health visitor, Pea should be sleeping outside as much as possible. (Or in this case on our balcony.) Supposedly it should be healthier and help him sleep.

Only problem is, I haven't seen him sleep any better out there. He wakes up just as often. So these days he doesn't sleep out there at all, because the more his tummy trouble bothers him, the more he wakes up. And when he wakes up so often, I want to be close to him. To prevent him from feeling it too much, I try to soothe him back to sleep the second he wakes up. If I manage to caox him back to sleep immediately, he doesn't need more than that. But if he starts crying, he wakes up so much he'll need rocking for 30 mins to fall asleep again.

Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but the health visitor seems to be unable to understand why I can't just leave him out there. It's not that I think he'll die if he cries for a bit. Trust me, he's allowed to cry when things suck (Like when he gets dressed. He HATES that.) but I just cannot let my baby lie there and just cry and cry.

Am I being overprotective?

Feeling very depressed and inadequate today. :o(

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[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do the circling a lot, plus some leg-cycling movements and anything else I can think of. But so far the only thing having any effect have been the uber laxative. Only, it worked a little too well. It's a delicate balance.

But thank you so much for your faith in my parenting skills. I need to hear it today.