#bedtime fading

[themomsandthecity]

‘Cry it out’ method not harmful to babies, study finds

by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Mom Stories Letting your baby cry for controlled periods of time at night before offering comfort can help your child sleep better and won’t cause any long-term harm, a new study suggests. The same is true for bedtime fading, a technique where parents gradually delay a baby’s bedtime with the... Read... Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading the BabyCenter Blog. http://bit.ly/1XT6ak6

[hello-sleepbaby]

Cry It Out is OK, Say Researchers

Cry It Out is OK, Say Researchers

So it turns out that Cry It Out is ok, after all!

I believe that no major sleep expert actually recommends “cry-it-out”. Nevertheless, the term has become attached to a method formally called “graduated extinction“. The method is made most famous by Dr. Richard Ferber in his 1986 classic “Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems”.

Graduated extinction was criticized by proponents of “Attachment Parenting

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