-A letter from baby (w/ resources at the end)
-Sleeping through the Night by Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Texas A & M University
Thorough compilation of resources (borrowed from here):
No Cry Sleep Alternatives:
- No cry sleep solution by Elizabeth Pantley
- Nighttime Parenting and The Sleep book both by William Sears, MD
- Sleeping with your baby
- Sweet Dreams: A Pediatrician's Secrets for a Baby's Good Night's Sleep
- Dr. Sears list of sleep tips:
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070300.asp
Pillow Talk: Helping Your Baby Get a Good Night's Sleep: http://www.mother-2-mother.com/pillowtalk.htm
- My list of sleep tips:
http://compassionatemotherhood.blogspot.com/2010/08/lay-me-down-to-sleep-gently.html
and
http://compassionatemotherhood.blogspot.com/2010/09/sleep-solution-replace-your-mommy.html
Peer Reviewed Research:
The Effect of Excessive Crying on Emotion Regulation: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a785034409~db=all
From the AAP: http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/21
Maternal Emotional Availablitly at Night Time Predicts Sleep Quality: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20545404
Baby Sleep Requirements: http://www.parentingscience.com/baby-sleep-requirements.html
Infant Crying and Maternal Responsiveness: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1127506
Science Says Excessive Crying Can be Harmful to Infants (review of research): http://askdrsears.com/html/10/handout2.asp
Australian Assocationa for Infant Mental Health Stament on CIO: http://www.gymealily.org/resources_paperva7.htm
Quotes from Health Care Professionals and Research Articles: http://bawlingbabies.blogspot.com/2006/06/quotes-from-various-doctors.html
There is No Empirical Evidence that CIO is Safe:
Handout, "Is CIO Appropriate?": http://www.infantsleep.org/images/WAIMH_Handout2.pdf
No Research to Back CIO (like several books claim): http://www.infantsleep.org/cryingitoutresearch.html
Normal Infant Sleep:
Night Waking: http://www.storknet.com/cubbies/breast/AS-nightwaking.htm
Night Waking and Protection from SIDS: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/10/sleeping-with-baby-breastfeeding-night.html
Baby Sleep Requirements: http://www.parentingscience.com/baby-sleep-requirements.html
Healthy Infant Sleep (Dr. McKenna): http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/healthy-infant-sleep.html
Sleeping Through the Night: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/sleeping-through-night.html
Collection of Sleep Studies: http://home.kellymom.net/parenting/sleep/sleepstudies.html
8 Infant Sleep Facts Every Parent Should Know: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070200.asp
Is Your Baby Sleeping Through the Night Yet?: http://www.drjen4kids.com/soap%20box/sleep%20stuff.htm
Wakeful 4 Month Olds: http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/sleep/4mo-sleep.html
When Will My Baby Sleep Through The Night?: http://www.llli.org/FAQ/sleep.html
Why Are Some Babies Night Owls?: http://www.ivillage.com/why-are-nursing-babies-often-night-owls/6-n-136871
Videos:
Why CIO is Harmful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbYk5RiIwZI
Additional Information:
Comfort and Crying: http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=1255
A First-Person Perspective: http://womanuncensored.blogspot.com/2009/12/just-let-her-cry.html
Culture (Africa): http://www.blacktating.com/2010/09/why-african-babies-dont-cry.html
Crying In-Arms: http://www.instinctiveparenting.com/flex/crying_and_emotional_release_in_babies_the_aware_parenting_approach/163/1
We are Hardwired to Respond to Crying (3rd Paragraph): http://www.parenting.com/article/Baby/Care/Soothing-a-Crying-Baby
Dads are Hardwired to Respond to Crying:
http://www.todaysparent.com/lifeasparent/fatherhood/article.jsp?content=1225399&page=1
The Case Against CIO:
http://www.storknet.com/cubbies/attachmentparenting/cio.htm
Harvard Research Says Children Need Touching Attention (not CIO): http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/04.09/ChildrenNeedTou.html
A Mother's Affection Prevents Anxiety in Adulthood: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/26/mother.affection.anxiety/index.html
The Potential Dangers of Leaving your Baby to Cry: http://eduarticles.com/cry-it-out-the-potential-dangers-of-leaving-your-baby-to-cry
10 Reasons not to CIO:
http://www.phdinparenting.com/2008/07/05/no-cry-it-out/
Controlling or Spoiling?: http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/control.html
Controlled Crying... Oops Controlled Comforting: http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/crying.html
Early Brain Development (and how CIO is harmful/affects it):
http://www.educarer.com/brain.htm
The Science of Attachment Parenting: http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/lauren_lindsey_porter.html
Stress in Infancy: http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/linda_folden_palmer2.html
Why CIO Doesn't Work: http://www.drjen4kids.com/myths/crying%20it%20out.htm
Cry It Out. Yes? No?: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/5/T051200.asp#T051205
Should I Let My Baby Cry It Out?: http://www.storknet.com/cubbies/parenting/cryitout.htm
Peaceful Parenting (has written extensively on this topic, go to search engine and put in cio): http://www.drmomma.org/
-- Excessive Crying Harmful to Babies: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/excessive-crying-harmful-to-babies.html
-- Dangers of Leaving a Baby to CIO: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/dangers-of-leaving-baby-to-cry-it-out.html
-- CIO Causes Brain Damage: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/crying-it-out-causes-brain-damage.html
-- The Case for Cue Feeding (feeding on demand, even at night): http://www.drmomma.org/2010/01/case-for-cue-feeding.html
-- The Con of Controlled Crying: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/cons-of-controlled-crying-cio.html
Getting at the CIO Approach:
Babywise is Harmful: http://www.rickross.com/reference/gfi/gfi5.html
Babywise Recalled (FROM THE AAP): http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/21
Dr. Sears on Babywise: http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/train-up-child-in-way-he-should-go.html
Confessions of a Failed Babywiser: http://www.drmomma.org/2010/01/confessions-of-failed-babywiser.html
Pediatric Nurse and Former Ezzo (Babywise) Patient: http://www.drmomma.org/2010/01/pediatric-nurse-and-former-ezzo-parent.html
Evaluating Ezzo Programs: http://www.ezzo.info/index.htm
Notes:
A couple topics go hand-in-hand with the topic of CIO and STTN. One is Bed Sharing and the other is the idea of "spoiling" or "habit forming". I have more resources on these topics if you don't find the information you need above.
Another thing to consider is that babies whose parents use CIO will often sleep more. Not all babies, in fact research shows babies left to CIO end up crying more all-in-all than babies who are not left to CIO. But you will hear stories from moms who let their babies CIO and now they sleep "wonderfully". We must consider that CIO often "works" but what does this mean? (A baby stops asking for help). And at what cost? (Too high of one). Is it safe? (In many cases NO). And can we achieve the same results without letting our baby be in distress? (Yes).
End.
I LOVE what this momma said about nursing your baby to sleep (in response to this post):
Why are you trying to get her to sleep without nursing? I know that a lot of moms feel pressured into breaking the nursing\sleep association, but I would argue that it is how babies were DESIGNED to fall asleep. I love this article.
"Some parenting “experts” recommend withholding from your baby all the comforts that would normally induce sleep, including pacifiers, rocking and allowing him to fall asleep at the breast or bottle. These same “experts” then have the opportunity to teach tough-love tactics, which attempt to coerce your perplexed, forsaken baby to sleep without any of his natural tools.
All the crying that ensues produces stress hormone releases in your baby, discouraging sleep until sheer exhaustion takes over. And after all is said and done, you are left to try to get to sleep with your own stress hormones surging through your bloodstream, as well.
The reality is that babies come with a simple and wonderful program in place for falling asleep: breastfeeding. A mother’s body passes comforting hormones into her own body and into her baby’s milk in response to the suckling. Babies release their own comforting hormones, as well, during parental contact and especially when sucking. Together, the warmth, security, full tummy, tiredness from sucking effort and comforting hormones induce sleep naturally.
Nursing your baby to sleep, whether at the breast or the bottle, is a great way to achieve these effects."
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