And, therefore, what you have is you have freedom from that point on. One finds nothing of this nature in the Ezzos' total-control dogma, a dogma that caters instead to parental convenience. There is no question that responding to a baby's cries with comforting takes effort. Admittedly, applying Biblical principles about love in general to a specific area such as child care is fraught with difficulties. However, some things can be said.
Babies have real needs beyond nutrition and diapering.
Babies have real needs to be held, real needs to be in physical contact with their mothers. God endowed babies with only a few ways of communicating, and one of them is crying. If a couple chooses to follow such an unscientific program, they should not believe that there is a Biblical basis for it, because there is not. The Ezzos strangely deny that God has given instincts to human persons. This enables them to deny that a mother is following God-given instincts in wanting to pick up her crying baby.