I am sure I have put this in the wrong section, but here goes:
Do some mothers not hear their babies crying? I saw an example in the grocery store today that reminded me of this. The woman had a very young baby in a carrier in her grocery cart. I don’t know anything about babies, so I have no idea how old the child was, but I don’t think it was old enough to walk yet. This child was not just crying, it (I don’t know if it was a boy or a girl, so that’s why I’m using it - not to be insulting) was howling - red, scrunched up face, clenched fists, the whole deal. I could hear the child when I entered the store and happened to cross paths with them a little while later. This woman was paying no attention at all to this child, not trying to soothe it, nothing. Just calmly comparing boxes of Hamburger Helper. She had a calm expression on her face. I’m really not sure that it even entered her mind that her child was screaming loud enough to be heard all over the store.
I was only in the store about 10 minutes, and the screaming never stopped.
This can’t be good for a baby , can it? Was she just a bad mother, or is that what you are supposed to do? I really felt sorry for the child, which is unusual for me. I usually just want to put as much distance between me a a screaming baby as possible.