“This is not how I imagined it. I pictured sitting in the rocking chair with a blissful pink-cheeked baby…. My child is always miserable and he tortures me nonstop with his relentless cries.”
Dramatic? Not necessarily. A miserable baby makes parents “crazy.” Hashem designed the cries of an infant to be annoying enough to signal the need for urgent intervention. After all the little guys can’t just say what they want. Hashem made sure that they would be heard. A baby’s cry sends off an alarm to every man woman and child! But sometimes parents cannot find the “off button” and the baby continues to cry for hours. It’s during these times that parents feel desperate.
What’s Happening?
“Thank goodness my baby doesn’t have colic — I wouldn’t be able to take it. In fact I don’t let my baby cry for even a few minutes because it breaks my heart to hear her sobs. I try to keep her near me at all times so that I can respond to her needs even before she utters them.”
Some people have a very low threshold when it comes to tolerating infant distress. Any cry — not just a long hard one — is intolerable to them.
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