"He awakes in a mindless terror of the silence, the motionlessness. He screams. He is afire from head to foot with want, with desire, with intolerable impatience. He gasps for breath and screams until his head is filled and throbbing with the sound. He screams until his chest aches, until his throat is sore. He can bear the pain no more and his sobs weaken and subside. He listens. He opens and closes his fists. He rolls his head from side to side. Nothing helps. It is unbearable. He begins to cry again, but it is too much for his strained throat; he soon stops. He waves his hands and kicks his feet. He stops, able to suffer, unable to think, unable to hope. He listens. Then he falls asleep again."
This was well written by Jean Liedloff author of the Continuum Concept.
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Crying it out did not work for Buddy at all. My doctor would "suggest" trying it. I could never last more than a minute of letting him cry. He wanted to be held all the time and we co-slept till he was 16 months.
Now Pink from 2 weeks on she wanted to be in her own bed and she would get overstimulated all the time from being held so much. She still does. She had such a different personality than Buddy. She would cry for less than a minute and be done.
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