CIO

dragonlady wrote in message
Although it's rare, I have known a baby or two who seem to need to be
left alone to cry for a few minutes (like less than 3 minutes total) in
order to fall asleep; if you hold them, rock them, whatever, they just
seem to get wound up -- if you lay them down, they cry lustily for a
very few minutes, then settle down and fall asleep.

Two of my daughters were like that. I found that out by accident with the
first, and then continued it and she was just fine if you let her blow off
some steam first.
--
Sue
mom to three girls

dragonlady wrote in message
Although it's rare, I have known a baby or two who seem to need to be
left alone to cry for a few minutes (like less than 3 minutes total) in
order to fall asleep; if you hold them, rock them, whatever, they just
seem to get wound up -- if you lay them down, they cry lustily for a
very few minutes, then settle down and fall asleep.

My kids did this sometimes. I wouldn't describe what they did as crying
lustily, though. There was a particular kind of "I need to go to sleep but I'm
too tired" wail they got, and if you put them down there was a kind of "waaaah,
hink, waaaah, hink" noise, not very loud, and gradually the waaaahs would get
further and further apart and suddenly they'd stop.

--Helen