Moms Talk

Moms Talk is a new feature on Suisun City Patch that is part of a new initiative on our Patch sites to reach out to moms and families.

Suisun City Patch invites you and your circle of friends to help build a community of support for mothers and their families right here in Suisun City. 

Each week in Moms Talk, our Moms Council of experts and smart moms take your questions, give advice and share solutions.

Moms, dads, grandparents and the diverse families who make up our community will have a new resource for questions about local neighborhood schools, the best pediatricians, 24-hour pharmacies and the thousands of other issues that arise while raising children.

 Moms Talk will also be the place to drop in for a talk about the latest parenting hot topic. Do you know of local moms raising their children in the Tiger Mother's way and is it the best way? Where can we get information on local flu shot clinics for children? How do we talk to our children about the Tucson shootings? How can we help our children's schools weather their budget cutbacks?

So grab a cup of coffee and settle in as we start the conversation today with a question from your Moms Council. 

1.    I don’t want my baby to cry, but I don’t want him to get spoiled by holding him every time he cries. Is there a happy medium I can have, so that neither one of us go crazy? 

There is a lot of advice that I have received about this when my son was a little younger. Typically, you want to pay close attention to why your child might be crying. If your baby has already eaten, already been changed, and doesn’t seem to be in pain from teething or fever, he/she might just want to be held. My son’s pediatrician advised that you slowly introduce new things to a baby, so that they get used to doing it. So if you want your baby to get used to not always being held, try giving him/her a toy to play with, but stay close by. Let your baby know that you are there for him/her, even when you are not holding him/her.