It might tear at your heart strings and induce unbearable feelings of guilt. But parents should not automatically rush to the cotside when their baby is screaming rather than sleeping soundly. Allowing infants to cry for a short time rather than immediately comforting them does no harm, say scientists. They showed that those who left their babies to cry were 40 per cent less likely to have the condition and both parents were less stressed overall.

Key Takeaways:

• In my opinion, re-training is way worse than initial sleep training. When we first sleep trained Crumb and then Chip, I was pumped up, positive, and prepared to listen to crying.
• It’s not fair to them to be changing the rules all the time but on the other hand, it’s just cruel to let a sick baby cry.
• Poor Chip is currently getting his top four teeth, he has a cold, and he’s recently learned how to go from crawling to sitting up and climbing.

“Poor Chip is currently getting his top four teeth, he has a cold, and he’s recently learned how to go from crawling to sitting up and climbing.”

http://www.hellobee.com/2016/11/21/the-hardest-thing-about-cry-it-out/