Finally, standing in stark contrast to co-sleeping and gentle
sleep training advocates, one finds proponents of CIO.
Sleep training advocates recommend starting no earlier than six - months - old, and the risks of sleep training using «cry it out» (a.k.a. «CIO») methods at any age are under investigation.
And so the argument has raged on for nearly 25 years now, with attachment parenting advocates accusing
sleep training advocates of willfully neglecting their babies for their own convenience.
No, nobody wants to be pro-crying, and I really don't want to be known as
a sleep training advocate.
Not exact matches
Like William Sears, who wrote the foreword to her book, parent educator Pantley opposes any
sleep method that involves leaving your baby alone to cry,
advocating a more gradual approach to
sleep training.
Crying isn't the goal of this
sleep training method, but
advocates say it's often an inevitable side effect as your baby adjusts to
sleeping on his own.
And even
advocates of «cry - it - out» strategies of
sleep training warn that such approaches are inappropriate for young babies and children who are especially fearful or anxious (France and Blampied 1999; Owens et al 1999).
Common sense suggests that traumatized kids should not be subjected to graduated extinction, and
advocates of Ferber
sleep training agree.
I read 5
sleep books in a month (I'll share the titles in this post), several
advocating for
sleep training methods that I wasn't comfortable with.
Now, I will not
advocate that parents should simply accept depression and greater stress, but I don't think
sleep training really helps matters either.
Developed by William Sears, a popular attachment parenting
advocate, the No Tears method of
sleep training believes in comforting your baby each time she cries.
But while many parents swear by Dr. Ferber's book and the Ferber
sleep training method, it is often misunderstood by others who think it simply
advocates that parents leave their kids to cry alone all night.
In the second approach, one finds proponents of gentle
sleep training techniques such as those advocated by Markham herself as well as by Elizabeth Pantley in her popular book «The No Cry Sleep Solution.&r
sleep training techniques such as those
advocated by Markham herself as well as by Elizabeth Pantley in her popular book «The No Cry
Sleep Solution.&r
Sleep Solution.»
A guide to
sleep -
training methods, including Ferber, that
advocate letting your baby cry for specified periods of time before o...
Proponents of these
sleep training methods say it's okay for your child to cry when you put him to bed and leave the room, although they don't
advocate letting a baby cry indefinitely.
Cry - it - out is a
sleep training method that
advocates letting your baby cry (or the more innocuous - sounding «self - soothe») for varying periods of time before offering comfort.
I am sure it will probably shock and offend many attachment parenting
advocates that I chose baby
sleep training.