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(

Comments

[birggitt.livejournal.com]

But of course you are not being overprotective!
And I never heard about letting a baby sleep outside. My son never slept outside as a baby, and he is perfectly fine...
And, about let the baby cry? I'm all the way with you. It's not the same when he's crying because he doesn't like something, than when he's crying because he's in pain.
A baby in pain needs his mom, the comfort and security that only feel and smell his mom can give him.
So, you keep doing what your heart is telling to do, you are not wrong, and you are not doing anything wrong.
Oh! And when my baby had stomach cramps, he soothes a lot if I rubbed his belly in circles, helping him with the air in his bowels.
*hugs*

[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.