Has anyone seen this?AdelaideNow... SA study to settle battle of cry babies debate sounds like she is trying to prove CC isn't harmful to me. Surely a 12 month study isn't going to prove that. I know my 3yo at 2 was still very clingy. It wasn't until he was developmentally ready (somewhere between 2 and 3 years for him) that he started going off to play and make friends and discover the world feeling safe and secure that i was around should he need me. My 9mth old co-sleeps and i don't see anything different happening anytime soon!! I have never used self settling techniques on either boys. At 2, my eldest son decided it would be fun to have his own bed and quilt covers he chose etc. And we never have bedtime dramas because bed and sleep have always been a "good happy" place.
Last edited by MantaRay; September 14th, 2008 at 11:10 AM.
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The womans baby at the end of the article may now be sleeping 12 hours at night, satisfying the needs of the mother that ignored her babies cried but the poor baby has now learnt that if its lights off, too bad if you are hot/cold, sad, cant sleep or hungry, too bad, wait until the morning....
Is this the study we were talking about in the other thread? I didn't realise 'long tem' only meant 12 months! I would be interested in a long term study that looked at the impact 20 years later.
And does anyone find the photo in that article downright annoying?? It just paints that picture of the hard, hard work of crying, painful babies. So much for the joy huh?
Not that CC is my cup of tea but apparently, the study will measure the amount of something (cortisol, I think!) in their saliva (or it could be their blood, still have a hangover from pregnancy brain!) and it apparently will show if they are stressed or not - so I think that is what the study is going to prove- whether CC stresses the baby out or not.
I know this is an old thread but I just couldn't help myself......
How does an only 12 month study on only 25 babies prove anything!
I'm sure that ladies baby did sleep 12 hours, because he is so exhausted from crying and he has learnt to shut of his emotions because mummy isn't going to come anyway!
What are we teaching our children by doing this to them?
I was in an MBU a few weeks ago, I co-slept the whole time but all the staff there were desperate for me to try there method.They actually implied that it's the 'only' way it should be done.
The one comment that got me while I was there was 'when the baby is warm, has a clean nappy and is full, then you know they don't need anything, they just don't like change'....aren't emotional needs, needs? like being scared, wanting a cuddle, feeling lonely or even a tummy ache?
Oh I could go on......
P.s I DO NOT want to offend anyone who has had to use these methods, I understand how it could be needed...I respect everyones choices...that's just how I personally feel about it though.
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sounds like she is trying to prove CC isn't harmful to me. Surely a 12 month study isn't going to prove that. I know my 3yo at 2 was still very clingy. It wasn't until he was developmentally ready (somewhere between 2 and 3 years for him) that he started going off to play and make friends and discover the world feeling safe and secure that i was around should he need me. My 9mth old co-sleeps and i don't see anything different happening anytime soon!! I have never used self settling techniques on either boys. At 2, my eldest son decided it would be fun to have his own bed and quilt covers he chose etc. And we never have bedtime dramas because bed and sleep have always been a "good happy" place.
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