"Parents Misled by Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Reports"

Here, we outline parenting media’s top factual and logical failures when reporting on this developmentally risky practice...

1. Research does not support what sleep training reports assume:

• That sleep training “is fine” for baby —it’s NOT, even when the baby stops protesting.
• That cry-it-out (extinction of crying) works at home—it does NOT.
• Age and development level of the child does not matter for sleep training. WRONG.
• Research shows no harm for babies—NOT: it doesn’t even examine harm to babies!
• Sleep training research is well done—NOT: poor designs, fidelity, analysis show it is UNRELIABLE.

2. Sleep training reports gloss over the trauma and toxic stress that is done to babies during sleep training, when the brain and body are developing rapidly. Reports overlook how ignoring a baby at night is a form of NEGLECT. 

3. Most parents are not comfortable with cry-it-out (extinction of crying) and they should not be. Babies are meant to be with caregivers all the time. Their wellbeing is undermined otherwise.

"Parents Misled by Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Reports"

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