Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> > I'd get the baby its own bedroom separate from mine, and if there
> > were no obvious reason for why it persisted in crying and the doctor
> > had no solution, I'd let the baby cry itself to sleep in the hopes
> > that it is merely seeking excessive attention or affection and will
> > grow out of it.
>
> My son was a pretty mellow baby. He basically only cried when he needed
> something, like his diaper changed or some milk.

My kids liked attention as babies, and they like it now. It was hard to get
anything done carrying a baby, and it's hard to do anything with one or two
kids in your lap.

> But my basic philosophy was that you should never give a child under 1 a
> reason to cry. Until then, they only cry because of real needs. My goal was
> to anticipate those needs, and not even give him a reason to cry. When they
> start cognating on how they can control their parents with their crying is
> when you need to wean them off a bit. Then again, my son wasn't the sort
> that would just continue to cry no matter what you did.
>
> My son did have one thing though; he would get into this mood where he
> wanted you to walk around while you held him. Just sitting and rocking
> wasn't enough -- the little shit could tell the difference.

My daughter liked late night drives a couple of times.

> I can remember
> many a night, pacing the hallway at 3am, carrying him around while trying to
> read some highly technical paper on the lambda calculus for lecture the next
> morning.