crying it out method

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What are people's views and experiences on this?

However, I wouldn't do the full thing. I could only stand my child crying five mins max and then I'd go in for one minuet and keep doing that. I couldn't leave her longer!

Happy Mummy approach, innit. Mum’s needs over baby’s at any cost.

Ooh, this woman must have touched a nerve.

Yes .
You have and you always do .
Your judgement and horrible nasty ways

You have no idea about others people circumstances

Bit of an assumption there. Parenthood is hard. I don’t know how anyone can think leaving a tiny and defenceless baby to cry is okay. In what way does it help if you’re at the end of your tether?

There’s very little support for new mums -they are exploited by baby books and generally lacking in basic information about what is normal for babies. But that’s not an excuse to basically neglect a young child because your expectations are out of line.

And what if the parent is suicidal and cc worked for a baby over 6 months

That’s an extreme example. Where is the support for the suicidal parent? Why is Cx the only option? Isn’t there something fundamentally wrong with society if that’s the only option?

And I despise dummies so no way will any child of mine ever have one.
It worked for us, and it's not abuse.

Horribly judgemental and unnecessary comment, the smugness is pathetic.

Well this went as expected didn't it.

I did it at 9 months for the following reasons:

I was beyond sleep deprived.
My relationship with my husband was being affected.
My relationship with my baby was being affected.
Emotionally and mentally I’d hit the wall.

Life was pretty unbearable really so something had to be done.

I used a sleep consultant for advice and guidance though and achieving a baby who slept through was much more complex than just doing controlled crying as we had a variety of sleep related problems, but it was very effective.

We went in at internals of
1, then 2, then 4 and then 8 minutes. He was never left longer than the 8 minutes.

The first night was the worst but within 4-5 days he was sleeping through from 7-7.

Following the training (which also addressed daytime napping) he was getting 6 hours more sleep in a 24
hour period than he’d been getting beforehand and that’s a huge difference. The positive difference in him was amazing, he was so much happier and rested. I believe that babies need sleep just as much as we do and them being awake night after night can be just as bad for them as it is for us.

Of course babies need sleep. It’s how their brains and bodies grow. But you may have been able to get the same result without CC.

Assuming she hadn't already tried pretty much everything as most people do before "hitting" the wall and getting a sleep consultant Titty.

Possibly - but for the reasons I listed above about why I did it, meant that something drastic had to be done. I had been trying for weeks and weeks to address the problem but nothing was working and i was desperate. I don’t think anyone would consider sleep training, especially CC, unless they really were desperate.

When I used the sleep consultant she discussed with me the 6 or 7
different methods of sleep training there are and then asked me which one I wanted to do. She told me that if I needed and wanted quick results than CC was the way to go.

KatyN sensible approach that I did with DDs many years ago. DD1 didn't do it with DGSs and they are now age 2 and 5 and both hellish sleepers