I just wanted to add a post to this as I have an email this morning from Tizzie's office saying they will be commencing legal action this morning against BellyBelly due to questioning Tizzie's training. *editing 2.12pm Monday as they are now not looking into suing me for the education comment but instead for saying Tizzie teaches 'cry it out' solutions.*

I want to say that I am not removing this thread or this post and I stand by what I say. You only have to run a google search to find masses of pages of stuff in Australia on forums written by other mums, moderators, site owners etc. So I am not the first and I certainly wont be the last. These other forums are far more out there and accusing than what has been posted here. This is lame in comparison. If anyone would like any further links, feel free to email me otherwise just run an australian google search in order to inform yourselves.

Women choose Obstetricians who are qualified. Women take their children to doctors or paediatricians who are qualified. So when there is an issue or time which has a major effect on a child's and mother's physical, mental or psychological wellbeing, (which of course is the case in such early stages of life, it's where it's set-up) we damn well have the right to know if we are getting advice from someone with relevant qualifications and what they are, especially when they do not have children themselves. Even though we have not yet established if the person in question is a qualified Psychologist, does training for Psychology adequetely cover birth/newborn/infant mental health and wellbeing in regards to sleep training? What effect does this have on the mums who think they are going to get a 24 hour fix and it doesn't happen? What happens when things go downhill?

Anyway, I have nothing against the person at all, but this is a site for discussion on pregnancy and baby topics and I see it as my right and every mothers right to ask what training these 'experts' have and to discuss our thoughts on sleep training as a gentle parenting site.

I would love to debate this topic further with myself or others who are pro-gentle or mothers instinct, I would love it to be in the media on a current affairs or morning show so everyone can make up their own minds, because I think the most dangerous thing of all is to tell people you have a solution without also telling them it may not work as not everything works for all.

If something works in 24 hours and it hasn't been discovered yet by generations of mums through various methods of comforting, then some sort of 'training' has to be involved. I have heard some stories from mums who have had this training but I will not post it as it's only word of mouth and could be wrong, but I would not train my babies in this way. And that is just my own private opinion only.