I currently have DS1 who is 3 and DS2 who is two weeks old tomorrow.
With DS1, I used to respond immediately to every little whimper, winge or cry.
With DS2, there are times I can't respond as quickly as I am doing something with DS1. For example, today I put DS2 in the Moses basket. He was fed, clean nappy and was asleep. He woke up after a few minutes and let out a little cry but I was sorting out breakfast for DS1 so couldn't get to him immediately. Eventually, DS2 just went back off to sleep again.
Is it ok that I didn't respond? Everywhere you read says to respond immediately to newborn cries but there are times where I physically am not able to (the same happened when I was in the shower the other morning or when I was on the loo!).
Of course if the cries continued then I would have obviously seen to him.
What's the best thing to do here?