Do I have to ignore my baby’s cries to get some sleep?
Anna Ciccarelli, of Adelaide, still remembers trying to get her 16-year old daughter to sleep as a baby. “Your heart breaks just listening to them cry, and you want to go in there but you’re told not to. You just stand at the door, and you’re crying with them.”
Anna is one of many parents advised to adopt “controlled crying”, a method that advocates leaving babies to cry unattended – gradually or cold turkey – so they get used to sleeping on their own. READ MORE…
Published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, Canberra Times, WAToday.