Dana Obleman and Sleep Sense - anyone heard of her?

[Mij]

When I was checking out old Dr Richard Ferber on google, to find out exactly what the revisions were in his latest edition (please please no discussions of CC here!) I found a link to a site that was offering 'free' advice on sleep, and selling itself as being 'not Ferber'. It all sounds highly suspect to me, so just wondered if anyone has come across her, and before I start requesting stuff I would be interested to know what her methods are. Anyone any ideas?

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THREAD STARTED 10 YEARS AGO

Sleep Sense Program is basically "conditioning" very young children as young as 6months old to stop crying at night so they will give up asking for help. We tried this program for over 18months and it has done more harm than good to our child. It took us such a long time to undo the negative impact our child has suffered.
This approach ignores any biological, psychological issues each child may be suffering from. It automatically assumes all children are the same and that all young children are crying at night due to same psychological behavioral issues. In our child's case, he was anemic, and had sleep apnea, and by ignoring him scream and cry through the night, my child has developed psychological fear of sleeping alone and being left unattended without being cared for when he needed help. We consulted the sleep sense program consultant many times incessantly to make sure we were doing the right thing but she said it's perfectly normal for children to scream and cry. Her claims and statements were made without any scientific evidence or consideration.
In today's neuroscience studies, letting babies get distressed is a practice that can harm children a great deal in them developing relationship capacities in the long run.
Forcing independence never works. Our child took a long time with the pediatrician and child psychologist's help to recover from the trauma he has experienced through the Sleep Sense Program training.
Babies and children cry. It's a matter of fact. You cannot condition children not to cry or not ask for help when they need one. If you do, it will foster a child that seeks more attention, gets aggressive and unhappy and demanding because his cry for help wasn't attended to when he needed to be comforted while developing his basic instinct.