Letting Babies Cry a Bit Is OK

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Andrea Petersen, Letting Babies Cry a Bit Is OK; A study found no long-term harm from babies crying for short periods as they learned to sleap. Wall Street Journal, Sept 10, 2012.
("The behavioral techniques used in the study didn't include the most controversial method, known as extinction, or 'cry it out,' in which parents put the baby to bed, close the door and don't open it until morning, no matter how long and vociferously the baby sobs. While effective, cry it out 'is very distressing to parents,' said Anna Price, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Community Child Health, the Royal Children's Hospital in Parkville [a suburb of Melbourne], Australia. 'It is hard to do. We don't recommend it'")

Note: The report is based on

Price AMH et al, Five-Year Follow-up of Harms and Benefits of Behavioral Infant Sleep Intervention: Randomized Trial. Pediatrics (an official publication of American Academy of Pediatrics), Published online September 10, 2012 (doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-3467).  
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