Sleep training methods often vary in theory, methodology, and execution, but their ultimate goal is the same: get babies to sleep safely.
Not exact matches
The «cry it out»
method refers to any
sleep training approach that says it's OK to let a baby cry for a specified period of time (
often a very short period) before offering comfort.
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.
What I read in that is that flexibility is key, and that is
often missing from
sleep training methods.
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.