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No Cry It Out: 3 Years Later

July 5, 2011




Three years ago today, I wrote what has become the most viewed and the most popular post on this blog. I wrote the post, Cry it Out (CIO): 10 Reasons Why it is Not for Us, after years as a message board moderator where we would post lists and lists of links over and over [...]

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The History of Sleep Training in Germany

May 9, 2011




We’ve all heard people say that babies need to be taught to sleep through the night and that it is necessary to let them cry it out to achieve this. However, the Western child rearing practices of having babies sleep in separate beds (often in separate rooms) and ignoring their cries at night has not [...]

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Emotional Availability and Infant Sleep

August 17, 2010




Over the past few days, several people notified me about a Globe and Mail article called Coddle or let the kid cry? New research awakens the sleep-training debate with a header that read: “While many moms and dads reluctantly allow their infant to ‘cry it out,’ some experts now say the practice can cause real [...]

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Why I can’t recommend Ferber or Weissbluth

September 2, 2009




I do not think cry it out is an appropriate way to teach babies or children to sleep, whether it is a graduated method (like Ferber) or full-on let ‘em scream until they pass out extinction (like Weissbluth) or until they vomit and beyond (like Schafer), I’m not on board. There are some people who [...]

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Let’s try another analogy

June 28, 2009




A lot of people objected to my last post for a lot of different reasons.I addressed a lot of them in the comments, but I wanted to rehash one of them, using some new, less offensive and perhaps more easily understood analogies this time. A number of people said that if you have tried gentle [...]

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Sex and Sleep

June 26, 2009




Photo credit: “At the end of a very long day” by KitLKat on flickr There was some banter the other day on twitter comparing sleep with sex. I’m not sure if it originated with or ended with Ann Douglas, but the conversation at some point came around to the intro to her book  Sleep Solutions [...]

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Gentle Baby and Toddler Sleep Tips

February 28, 2009




This post provides tips for sleep deprived parents that want their babies to sleep better and, like me, do not want to use the cry it out approach. Some of these things I have learned through experience and others I’ve learned through reading research. I should note that I have not necessarily tried all of [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Conversations About Crying It Out

February 25, 2009




Comics Courtesy of Heather Cushman-Dowdee @ MAMA-IS.COM

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Another academic weighs in on CIO

January 15, 2009




A few weeks ago Macall Gordon dropped by my blog and left a comment on my post about why we don’t use the cry it out method to get our children to go to sleep. Since then, I’ve been reading a lot of her work and found that it supports my assertion that there is [...]

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Book Review: The No-Cry Nap Solution (by Elizabeth Pantley)

December 28, 2008




I should preface this by saying that I own and have read many of Elizabeth Pantley‘s other No-Cry books. As many of my readers know, I am supportive of a no-cry approach, so when I was given the opportunity to read and review the No-Cry Nap Solution on my blog, it seemed like a natural [...]

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