Originally Posted by Lisa's Little Lambs:
As a fcc who often has a very full lap at naptime, this explains a lot of my reasoning. But don't get me wrong.. I love that my newest dcb can just be laid down in a pnp and will go to sleep. But my heart can't take the crying that probably happened to get him to that state.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...-crying-it-out
I'm sorry but I don't buy what that article is saying one bit.
It is basically saying a baby should never cry.
Seriously?
It also states that a baby that cries excessively has an inexperienced, unsupportive or unknowledgeable caregiver.
I know plenty of babies that cried even though ALL their needs were met.
I don't think infants should be dropped into a crib and simply left to cry alone and scared. That isn't at all how CIO is suppose to be used/applied.
It is a method of lengthening the time in which a parent responds to the child so that the child can learn how to wait, figure out their own methods of self-soothing.
Self-soothing needs to be taught....and sometimes that means the baby WILL cry.