Dr. Chheda – 👶 Babies can get spoiled by 6 months of age, so around 4 months of age you wanna stop attending to every single one of their cries. Now you know their hunger cry, you know their pain cry – you always wanna attend that. But it’s their attention cry – “wait, wait, wait, I just want some attention” – that’s the one I want you to ignore for a few minutes.

You can kinda peek around the corner and make sure they’re doing okay, but leave them alone. Don’t immediately go to them, and this includes everybody in the house, whether it’s grandparents, whether it’s older siblings. Tell them to leave the 4 month old alone for a few minutes and see what the 4 month old does.

You know, maybe the 4 month old will get distracted by something else, or maybe they’ll find their hands, or they’ll find something, but let them learn how to self soothe.

This is the age when they learn how to self soothe. If by 6 months they haven’t figured out how to self soothe, and you still are going to them for that attention cry, they are spoiled and they will manipulate you. 🌿