And Andy, the only reason you wake up refreshed in the morning is because you sleep next to that loud fan and couldn’t hear an elephant running in the house!

1) Check comfort level (ie cold? burps? etc)

2) Hungry

3) Smelly

4) Tired

If none of the above come to realization that sometimes babies are just fussy and when she feels like not being fussy she will shut up. Why wear myself out (especially after midnight) every time she makes a noise?

My wife doesn’t quite see eye to eye, but then again I get up refreshed in the morning and she is still droopy eyed. And the baby is just fine

Okay, really, here’s how I see it. She cries once, I give her a pat. She cries twice, I put the pacifier in her mouth. She cries thrice, I smell her bum and see if she’s hungry. Not that smelling her bum would tell me if she’s hungry…you get the idea. But after that, I say to myself, “Self, in 15 years is her crying right now really going to make any difference?” Then it dawns on me that I’m screwed either way and I reach for the earplugs. And if it’s past 11pm, I skip steps 1, 2, 3.

My wife refuses to let the baby fuss — she will tirelessly put the binky back into her mouth every 10 seconds for hours and hours on end . . . if it was up to me I do it a couple times and figure that if the kid really wanted to suck on something then she wouldn’t be spitting it out.

We have been lucky with the screaming, for the most part our girl is pretty mild tempered, but I was prepared to use ear plugs if necessary, my wife probably wouldn’t find it too amusing though