It would be bad to do it a lot maybe. But a few times is not going to have any harm.
At worst it will teach the baby to cry right away when the mother does that.
Babies cry a lot, and people don't play with them constantly. A little more isn't going to harm them.
The times where there is a positive reactions far outweigh the negative ones here. Not sure if that was clear. I mean that when there is a positive reaction the baby learns from it. A negative one is mostly ignored as far as long term learning goes.
Babies cry a lot, and people don't play with them constantly. A little more isn't going to harm them.
I wish I could find the citation but my wife and I did a lot of reading of studies in the early weeks we had our baby. There were more than a few references to actually allowing your baby to be frustrated and upset from time to time in order to ensure they developed the skills to deal with a little frustration, rather than growing up to freak out at every tiny thing.
We're no child psychologists, but it's worked for us. Perhaps a few times a week when the baby was inconsolable, we'd let her "cry it out" (but not full on Ferberizing) for 5-10 minutes and then console her when she went into a quieter phase. Now, at five months, she's well adjusted (for her age), sleeps through the night, and deals with frustration pretty well. It could all be BS, of course, but letting her freak out from time to time didn't do any obvious harm, at least.
At worst it will teach the baby to cry right away when the mother does that.
Babies cry a lot, and people don't play with them constantly. A little more isn't going to harm them.
The times where there is a positive reactions far outweigh the negative ones here. Not sure if that was clear. I mean that when there is a positive reaction the baby learns from it. A negative one is mostly ignored as far as long term learning goes.