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Posted by Rowena on August 04, 2003 at 16:40:47:
In Reply to: Question about CIO posted by Sally 2 on August 04, 2003 at 11:16:49:
Hi Sally There are gentler approaches to encourage a 3 month old to learn to sleep other than CIO. Have you read Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry approach? Whatever approach you use it's important that you feel confident that there is nothing impacting on your child's sleep, such as colic, reflux etc. (It would be rather cruel leaving a baby to cry if they were in any discomfort). I definitely DISAGREE with your friends comments about a babies being able to manipulate their parents. Manipulation is a nasty mind game only adults play (one a much older child learns only from example). A baby is not being manipulative when they cry because they want something, for example a parent's help going to go to sleep (when this is what a parent has done for them in the past and it's what the baby is familiar with). That doesn't mean you have to continue to help a child to fall to asleep because they cry. But it's important to understand that when you try to make any changes to what a baby is familiar with they will resist by crying. This is not manipulation. Good Luck
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