A good start

So, Felix screamed his lungs out (and pretty much every other vital organ in his body) for a grand total of 39 minutes yesterday, then all was eerily silent. The relief was palpable, but the guilt carried on for at least until the end of the football. Then bf fed him, then he rewarded us by not waking till 6am when he did a poo, so now he is calm and happy, as is his babymomma ;-)

17 minutes and he's still screaming

It's heartbreaking. What do we do? Go and cuddle him? What if that makes him more angry? Feed him to sleep? Surely that can't help break the vicious cycle? I feel like an evil Gina Ford bitch.

Listening to my baby scream

Felix won't go to sleep. He's currently screaming blue murder upstairs - the doors are shut, music is on, but the noise is still inescapable - and I'm sitting here wired and silently willing him to be calm but also absolutely determined NOT to feed him because I'm totally knackered and the last thing I want to do is chain myself to him any more today.

The question is, how long can we leave him to scream the neighbourhood down? It's been 9 minutes already but feels like a lifetime.