My SIL has done this method for sometime now ... even allowing for her son to cry & scream for up to 30mins ... Too be honest i have never seen it work as her son ends up hysterical & with short of breath ... and then shes goes in to get him & she starts the same procedure all over again
Maybe she continues to use this method as 'maybe' ?? it's worked for her at some point ??
I personally couldn't witness my DD get so emotionally & physically stressed ... When she was a baby i would chose to cuddle her if she was crying until she slept (but then that's just me & that's my choice ... and not to mention she had painful colic pains )
Hmm, must have the conversation with my DS that 20 minutes of crying will help him sleep better. Nothing more, nothing less. Yeah right. I have the opposite - if my DS is crying himself to sleep, even if he does drop off after a few minutes, guaranteed he will be awake again at the end of the first sleep cycle. If he goes to bed happily, I'm much more likely to get a good nights sleep. That sounds like I do CC - I don't at all, but now that he's developing his toddler independence, if he's really messing around at bedtime I pop him into bed to think about what he wants - sleep or milk...Can't think of a time when milk wasn't the winner
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