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Parents, on the other hand, may wildly disagree about whether or not it is okay to let a baby cry it out. Some parents think that letting a baby cry is good training. They think that a baby left to cry will learn to comfort and settle himself without help.

When deprived of the physical comfort she needs, a baby will use her primary survival response — crying to attempt to attract the attention of her parents. By using cry-it-out methods to train their babies to sleep, parents are severing the link between crying and response.

Crying-it-out is not for every parent, I know. But desperate parents—or parents who just want to be done with the 2 a.m. wake up— should feel fine trying the method. It’s not just that there’s no evidence of harm in crying-it-out—there is some solid evidence of no harm. When sleep training works, and research suggests it often does.

Crying-it-Out: Apparently Supported by Everyone and Their Grandmother There’s something in the water. Or so it seems because lately it’s as if promoting crying-it-out is a new mandate for the media.

Cry-it-out (CIO) and the supposedly more “gentle” controlled crying (CC) are highly touted methods of dealing with the “problem” of infant night waking.

In attachment parenting, a baby’s cries are viewed as their way of communicating a need — not as a form of manipulation.

Parents were encouraged to let their babies cry it out as early as the 1880s as a means of germ prevention. The idea was that if you touched your baby as little as possible, they’d be less likely.

Introduction. All infants cry and all cry for a reason. Indeed, the attributions applied to early infant crying range from pain to anger to boredom. 1 In the first months of life, crying is particularly salient as infants have relatively few effective methods of communicating their needs and states. Developmentally, crying in early infancy is distinguished by its temporal qualities.