I also wonder about the support that will go with the CC lessons. Are they just going to spend 10 minutes telling a mother about what to and leave her to it, or are they going to be their for her in the middle of the night when she has question and doubts. In my experience with the MCHN they just don't have the time to give more than the basic advice.

When Maggie was about 7 weeks old I received my last home visit from the council MCHN. A different one turned up that who had been visiting me (for feeding problems), she treated me like I was a waste of time, as the feeding issues had resolved since the last visit and then told me off for feeding her to sleep. She went on about rocking to sleep as well and do I want to be doing it when she is 7 kg (I was doing it at 7kg and she felt no heavier than at 4 as my muscles built up, they fail to take that into consideration with their scare tactics). She then proceeded to show me the 5s method (Happiest Baby on the Block?), but did not explain it, both DH and I thought she was assaulting our child as the "shaking" was quite severe. Poor Maggie was distressed but she continued to assault our child with the shaking and we thought her hearing would be damaged by the very loud shushing (louder than what I have ever used with her). Finally Maggie went to sleep, I think mostly in the hope that the awful woman would just go away. The MCHN finally left the house, she left me with no info on what to do, how I was to continue etc. We tried the method a couple more times, it only worked once, but we doubted it the whole time as we did not know the theory behind it. Finally I got to see the video on the method, so I then understood it, but I also realised that the MCHN was overly aggressive with it and was no doing it correctly herself. The sad thing is she really gave me no choice in the mather or even explained that there are different parenting methods, there was one method and it was hers.

So if that happened to me with the gentler method of 5s, what is going to happen with CC? It really saddens me to think about it.