Seeing a whole lot of this these days. In the beginning, Noah's crying was pretty easily deciphered. It was due to hunger, dirty diaper, or tiredness, and each was quickly resolved. These days, he just starts crying out of the blue, and I have no idea what the problem is. Diaper is clean, he was recently fed, and if I try to put him to sleep, he doesn't want to. He'll go down for a nap, and then 15-20 minutes later start crying. It then takes another 15-20 minutes to go back to sleep. So then he either doesn't get enough sleep, or I throw off the schedule for the rest of the day and his sleep gets out of whack, resulting in more crying. So frustrating! As a result, I spend most of my day either holding him or massaging his feet, as he seems to like this enough to stop crying. Maybe I'm perpetuating a bad habit? I often wonder whether or not I'm "spoiling" him, but he's barely 7 weeks old - is it really possible for babies to be spoiled at such a young age? To realize that if they keep crying, they'll get what they want? I find that hard to believe. For now, his sleeping is my top priority, so if I need to hold him, or massage his feet to get him to sleep, I guess that's what I'm going to do. If this persists for much longer, maybe I'll have to take a different approach.
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