The cry it out method isn't just one set of instructions for getting your baby to sleep through the night but rather a variety of strategies. We'll explain those strategies.
Agreed. Their linking a single study in the criticism section, at the very end, compared to the overwhelming number of methods they exhaustively cover through the whole article leads readers to think that letting babies cry is not very controversial.
Attachment parenting has a lot of research supporting it, not just a single study.
This article is more like: “an exhaustive list of strategies for sleep training” as it starts at the last step (already having chosen to sleep train your infant.)
Yes but sometimes kids actually need it. We had to take shifts sleeping only once every 48 hours because my kid literally would not sleep for more than 17 minutes at a time and this lasted for months. And many other studies point to lack of sleep contributing to poor brain development. My kid slept 6 hours in a row for the first time in her life after I let her fall asleep in the bed rather than on my arms.
Fair! My main point was that the title of this post was misleading; there are lots of reasons not to sleep train. This article didn’t even really cover why to sleep train, either, since I suppose the decision depends on the balance of reasons for and against.
I do think that a lot of Cry It Out methods are cruel and damaging, but that there are a very wide range of practices contained in that one umbrella method.
Agreed. Their linking a single study in the criticism section, at the very end, compared to the overwhelming number of methods they exhaustively cover through the whole article leads readers to think that letting babies cry is not very controversial.
Attachment parenting has a lot of research supporting it, not just a single study.
This article is more like: “an exhaustive list of strategies for sleep training” as it starts at the last step (already having chosen to sleep train your infant.)
Yes but sometimes kids actually need it. We had to take shifts sleeping only once every 48 hours because my kid literally would not sleep for more than 17 minutes at a time and this lasted for months. And many other studies point to lack of sleep contributing to poor brain development. My kid slept 6 hours in a row for the first time in her life after I let her fall asleep in the bed rather than on my arms.
Fair! My main point was that the title of this post was misleading; there are lots of reasons not to sleep train. This article didn’t even really cover why to sleep train, either, since I suppose the decision depends on the balance of reasons for and against.
I do think that a lot of Cry It Out methods are cruel and damaging, but that there are a very wide range of practices contained in that one umbrella method.
Well, when a toddler throws a temper tantrum and you still tell them no and there’s no changing your mind… that’s cry it out too.
Yeah, I never did that either.