Moms Talk
Should You Let Your Baby Cry It Out?
Getting a child to sleep through the night is the aim of all parents, but what's the best way to do it?
How do you and your baby get a good night’s sleep? When you hear your baby cry, letting him or her cry it out is one of the hardest things to do. Your instincts tell you to go and soothe your baby. A study out of Temple University says that parents should let their baby cry it out. Psychology Professor Marsha Weinraub says in an article on the Temple website that babies need to learn to self-soothe, which they don’t learn if a parent is doing the soothing for them, such as nursing the baby back to sleep. "The best advice is to put infants to bed at a regular time every night, allow them to fall asleep on their own and resist the urge to respond right away to awakenings." There are many critics of the cry it out method, who will hopefully …
Jane
9:17 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
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