There is a practice called sleep training in which mothers allow their infants under six months of age cry until they fall asleep. Unfortunately, this can lead to a wide variety of negative outcomes, and is not seen as productive by many pediatricians. When an infant in this age range is crying, it naturally raises stress hormones that deplete the levels of melatonin within the body. This ends up impacting their sleep schedule even more so than before.

Key Takeaways:

• Mothers should not let their babies cry it out because a baby’s cry is a baby’s language and they do not cry without reason.
• It has been observed that when a mother is new, she is hormonally wired to listen to her baby and respond from her heart.
• When a mother let a baby cry it out, they might persist in their cries and disrupt the whole household.

“Yet, letting a baby cry-it-out desensitizes a mother to the attachment-promoting signals of her baby’s cries.”

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