Spoil your baby!

There is actually no such thing as spoiling your baby. When your baby is crying, they have a need. When you meet that need, you are not spoiling them, you are showing up for them. You are building a healthy attachment with them. You are teaching them that you can be trusted and are safe. You are helping them learn that they have a voice and deserve to be heard.

Spoiling a baby is an old school way of thinking that we need to get away from. We have learned so much about attachment and child development that we now know that meeting the needs of our baby when they cry is key to healthy development. The “cry it out” method is actually far more harmful to our babies than meeting their need when they cry. What do we teach our baby when we let them “cry it out”? We teach them that their voice doesn’t matter. We teach them that we can’t be trusted and will be be consistent on when we respond to their needs. We teach them that they are sometimes on their own, and sometimes they can count on us.

Change the future for your children by responding to their needs. If they learn from you that their voice matters and that they can trust you, they will do the same for their children and you have stopped generational trauma in it’s tracks! You can do this for the future of your family!