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How to handle criticism of responsive parenting

My mother keeps telling me I am spoiling my baby by responding to every cry and holding him so much but when I try to put him down he screams and I feel like I am failing everyone

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External judgment is undermining your confidence in the very approach you believe serves your child best

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