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Getting your baby to sleep through the night is big task for the parents. During the newborn days, you have no choice but to feed the baby whenever he wakes up. This gives you many sleepless nights. However, once the infant grows a little say when about six months old
Cry-It-Out Method (CIO), as the name implies, does not mean that you let your baby to cry forever. It is a way of training your baby to sleep on his own. In this technique, for a certain time you let your baby to cry and then you go and calm him. With the help of this method, eventually the baby will learn to self-soothe and fall asleep rather than waiting for the mother to rock him to sleep. This is actually another milestone in the baby’s development.
This method works on a simple logic. When the baby is used to fall asleep while you feed or rock him, he will not be able to sleep on his own. Like adults, babies also tend to get up in the middle of the night. When the baby is awake in middle of night, he will not be able to soothe himself back to sleep and will cry until he gets the comfort from h is mother. This method works on the theory that if the baby is given an opportunity, he will be able to achieve the milestone of falling asleep on his own
These are just few suggestions. The time you let your baby CIO before you go and soothe him totally depends on how comfortable you are.
Here are some tips with which the cry-it-out method can be implemented more effectively.
Here are some of the disadvantages of this method:
But remember these drawbacks has no scientific reasoning so it leaves a lot of room for debate.
Maybe you don’t agree with logic of cry it out method or you have tried it out and it did not work for you. Every child is different and what is successful in one’s case may not hold good for other. So you can try different ways that suits you for training your baby to sleep.
Please do share with us some of your experiences of sleep training your baby. Have you tried the cry it out method? What is your opinion about it?
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