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Is my baby being u?

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ReRegRhonda · 10/09/2015 12:50

My baby is 15 short weeks old. He's ebf on demand and cries when he needs something. Yesterday my dm had hold of him and he started to make a noise, like a half cough half cry, just a shout to let us know he needed something - he's started to shout/make noise like this rather than all out cry. So my dm said he was trying to force himself to cry because he wanted attention because he's spoilt! My aibu is, am I actually spoiling the child, can babies force a cry for attention at 3 months or is my mum crackers? I genuinely can't decide, I feel that babies this small can't be 'spoilt' but she's made me wonder!

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randomsabreuse · 20/09/2015 09:37

Actually I think that babies are designed to be utterly manipulative of our emotions - how else would something so helpless survive!

However I don't think it's deliberate in the way an older child would think it through but more of an instinct like the grasp, suck or startle.

ppeatfruit · 20/09/2015 10:45

Gaspard There was a thread on calling babies 'naughty' and I commented that a 'good' baby ,esp. in the old days, was as near dead as possible Grin.

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