Should You Let Your Baby 'Cry It Out' and Sleep?

Pediatrician Eva Kubiczek-Love, MD, explains the effectiveness of popular sleep training methods such as graduated extinction.

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[zevenzeros]

You didn’t even answer the question that you asked in the title of the video.

[bmllz]

Great job making a 46-second video about this in-depth topic! Very insightful. (SARCASM!)

[jacquelineartis]

I understand people think it's abuse. But I think not. I have a 3 week old. I love her but wen she only sleeps for 2.5 hrs to breast feed frequently its tiring. I hold her cuddle with her, feed her, change her diaper and everything a parent can do to make sure she's happy. I Never let her cry to sleep but this time I'm so exhausted hungry and tired. Not to mention I also have to pump for 30min. And sometimes I only have to choice to sleep pump or eat, just to get some rest. To b stable enough to take care of her. People are so quick to judge without actually asking questions about a situation like that. But as parents we need breaks to.

[valerijapavic]

When the infant falls asleep after a period of wailing and frustrated cries for help, it is not that she has learned the “skill” of falling asleep. What has happened is that her brain, to escape the overwhelming pain of abandonment, shuts down. It’s an automatic neurological mechanism. In effect, the baby gives up. The short-term goal of the exhausted parents has been achieved, but at the price of harming the child’s long-term emotional vulnerability. Encoded in her cortex is an implicit sense of a non-caring universe.

[mattbakerg]

The one source I would actually trust gives a fluff answer.

[GeRaiDah]

Bed time is sleep time, once they are down don't pick them up again, tune out the cry and go to sleep yourself. If you keep picking them up it will only make them want to be picked up more and more and you will never sleep again. All this crap about emotions and feelings i read needs to stop you don't want a baby that grows up needy and weak. do the right thing and let them cry till there's no cry left and you will have an emotionally strong and independent child witch god knows we are short of in this day and age. Thanks

[josephscott]

Is this part of training for the government for schools

[mommadrew]

I sleep train my daughter and it works perfectly fine. I was sleep trained as a baby and here I am living a perfect life 🤷‍♂️ it isn't abuse. Hell my dog used to leave her puppies when they would cry out and they would just fall asleep. We aren't dogs obviously but many animals do the same with their young it's not uncommon

[NightOfTheLivingbit]

We’re essentially saying that generations worth of children have learned via these methods…and turned out perfectly fine.

Yet once we started taking other methods, coupled with other types of overly ‘gentle’ parenting…we ended up with the current generation of kids/teens.
AKA the most emotionally dependent, maturity stunted, drug dependency plagued, sexually dysfunctional, narcissistic, ADHD riddled behavior, etc etc etc…

Yeah. No thanks.
I’ll stick to teaching my kids independence, emotional security and self reliance via tough lessons, respect, honesty, discipline, integrity, maturity and acceptance through gentle hands and firm words.

[stupidusedrnames]

LETTING BABIES CRY IT OUT IS TEACHING THEM THAT NO ONE GIVES A SHIT AND THEY BECOME VERY INSECURE PPL. SEEN IT OVER AND OVER. MAKES VERY ANGRY CHILDREN.

[neb-roqket]

NEVER LET BABY CIO! thats evil and abuse. Smh

[posttenebraslux]

What a cold, cruel culture..
Childhood passes so quick and your children grow up so quick, take advantage of every minute to hold and pour love from your heart.
My daughter was a happy baby, I held my daughter a lot when she was a babe, I would never ignore my baby's sweet little cry for me to feel warmth and safety in my loving arms.
People waste so much time on their phones, people walk useless animals (dogs), so is it too much to hold your flesh and blood and show your love and dedication?
So abusive and greedy to leave a baby crying, neglected, his/her emotional needs ignored.
If you don't have love, respect, and patience for children, then you don't deserve to have children.

[MagdaEnigma]

I hate the "sleep training" methods. If parents read opinions of psychologists they would understand how bad leaving a baby to cry really is. We often think that feeding a baby and changing a baby are the only needs but they are not! Babies need to feel touched and kissed just like they need to eat and be changed. Don't wait when your baby starts crying!

[errolluck]

A lot of comments here are disgusting.
I understand parenting is hard, but leaving a child crying all alone in a room until he falls asleep IS NOT OK.
This isn't teaching them independancy or emotional security; is making them feel ignored, alone and abandoned by the people that are suppossed to love and care for you.
Almost two decades later, I still remember how I felt those times as a small child crying and searching for comfort in my bedroom and no one coming to me. It sticks with you for the rest of your life, even if it's not every night.
To all of you who still uses this method with their kids and defends doing it, you are horrible.

[Malignus]

Babies that rarely cry for no reason grow into adults with relatively high IQ; babies that cry incessantly grow into adults with low IQ. Does crying affect IQ? Does innate IQ affect crying? Is there no causality between the two? Who knows, but I suspect innately low IQ leads to crying (due to boredom) and incessant crying, in turn, probably adversely affects brain development.

[SontoMagwaza-wdem]

I actually leave my baby to cry especially when I have tried everything and he doesn't seem to stop, I leave him to cry himself to sleep, it's not abuse or anything it's teaching them independency, you can't be rocking a baby whenever he feels like crying.. remember we work for a living but babies simply cry for a living

[stephanieSean]

That’s how narcissists are created plus those type of kids out there parents far more in nursery homes . There heart get cold . I don’t say all but most of them . Look at the western modern countries . Nursery homes are booming !

[amg]

Let those demons cry it out, they can’t be coddled their entire life

[lyriumstoneladydelirium]

I let my 8 month old self soothe, it's tough but he eventually falls asleep