"Good" Babies

People refer to happy babies as "good" babies. In reality, some babies just need a bit more patience.

I was blessed with a "good" baby. At least that's what everybody tells me. What they really mean is that I am lucky that my son doesn't cry excessively.

My son is such a good baby that when he began to have a nightly crying jag lasting 20 or 30 minutes when he was three weeks old, we feared he had

colic. How naive we were! The poor parents of colicky babies have to endure hours of crying every day!

But does that mean that those infants are "bad" babies? No, of course not. It just means that they need a little bit more patience, comfort, and understanding to get them through those

colicky months.