The “Cry-It-Out” Method
There’s been a debate going on regarding a new method for handling babies when they cry. This new method suggests letting the baby cry it out, instead of parents or caregivers picking them up and attending to them. This supposedly does away with babies growing up to be fussy and dependent. The method teaches them early on to rely on themselves and learn to deal with situations at hand.
But…that’s just it. Babies aren’t capable of learning to deal with things like this. They certainly don’t recognize and understand the meaning of frustration. Crying for babies is a way of communicating. Disregarding this or ignoring this is, to me, being insensitive to their needs, when parents have to be nurturing and observant of this.
I’ve heard people say to new parents to let the baby be and cry it out because crying is good for the lungs. It helps it develop stronger. But this perception is more of a folklore than an actual scientific method that proves it is effective.
Crying is distressing…whether you’re an adult or a baby. To let the young ones cry it out adds a lot to stress, which babies don’t really need to feel, right? Mothers are biologically built to respond to this as soon as they hear the baby crying. It takes time, but eventually Mothers will learn to respond to different cries appropriately….it’s one of the ways they get to know their babies behavior and tendencies.
What do you think of this method?
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