More on Cry-It-Out
Go read this post. It very eloquently explains why we won’t use any cry-it-out techniques at our house.
Go read this post. It very eloquently explains why we won’t use any cry-it-out techniques at our house.
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Brandy said,
March 15, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
I dig it Kim. You already know that from FB
Jeremy and I had a good discussion about it. He was a bit irritated that the author did take such an exaggeration of her experience but it was a great spot to jump off from.
He said it best about CIO “It just feels mean”.
I really liked your comment on your page about how if 45% of babies have sleep “problems” shouldn’t we revisit the idea of the word “problem” in conjunction with sleep? Good food for thought.
kim said,
March 15, 2010 @ 11:04 pm
Thanks, Brandy!!
I really do think that CIO/CC is *not* just a different technique for helping your child sleep - I feel that it’s abusive. Like someone in the comments of that article said, it would never be legal to treat an elderly person in a nursing home like that, nor a younger person in a residential home - how is it okay to “train” our children like that?
And who wants to ‘train’ their child, anyways?
Kathryn said,
March 16, 2010 @ 6:26 am
I’ll be honest here, and I think I was before, but we did it with Nadia. And the thing is, she wasn’t a bad sleeper. In fact, she went down at 7 and nursed like once (although at the time she was getting up more because she had had a cold, then got over it, but was still used to getting up a lot) so I did the CC. At the time it was right for me, I was going through untreated postpartum depression and was loosing it with her. It was better for us both. But I do see a negative result even now. Our relationship isn’t very good and I struggle with her. I often wonder if it’s a result. We may never know for sure. One thing is, I won’t be doing it with Rhys.