Have 2 dds who were extremely active, responsive, "wired" babies who found it difficult to wind down and go to sleep.
Both of them they were very responsive to eye contact almost from birth: if they were sleepy and you looked into their eyes, they immediately became wide awake.
At times they were feeding every hour during the day and every 2 hours during the night. I quickly learned that when settling them to sleep after night feeds my options were:
Holding them close with head on my shoulder, rubbing their backs, stroking their hair, rocking, saying "shhhhh" = reasonable chance of getting them back to sleep.
Holding them in my arms, doing all the above and looking into their eyes = reasonable chance of spending the next 2 hours pacing the floor with screaming overwrought baby, whilst almost hallucinating with exhaustion myself.
Am quite lentil-weavery and basically wore them for the first 10 months of their lives, demand breastfeeding, etc. If anyone tells me I emotionally damaged them by not making eye contact at night I'll be a bit
Has anyone else found similar with their DCs or is it just mine that were eye contact freaks?
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You know, all this talk about CV and avoiding eye contact is bothering me, because I did that.
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welliemum · 10/10/2007 21:40
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