The reliable-response game
Per the AAP, you cannot spoil a young baby with attention — answer their calls for help and they cry less overall. Supporting them even at their most difficult is how they learn they can trust and rely on you.
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🛡️ If the crying becomes more than you can hold — and some nights it will — it is completely safe to put baby down on their back in the cot and step out for a few minutes. A baby crying in a safe place is fine; a baby who gets shaken or jolted, even once, is not. Go back when your own breathing has slowed.
Sources: AAP — Responding To Your Baby's Cries · ZeroToThree — Birth to 12 Months: Social-Emotional Development
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