There have been different approaches to a baby’s cry advocated by different experts/parents, namely cry-it-out method (advised by sleep expert Dr. Richard Ferber), controlled crying and no-cry sleep solution (author Elizabeth Pantley) .….. Which one best suits both you and your baby? Upon considering a suitable approach for yourself, you may be interested in a new research that studied how a parent’s response would shape the pattern of a baby’s cry [via newscientist.com]:

Ian St James-Roberts of the University of London’s Institute of Education and his colleagues recruited new parents from London and Copenhagen, Denmark. They also recruited a group of “proximal-care” parents from the UK, Denmark and the US, who planned to hold their infants for much of the time that they were awake and respond rapidly if they cried.

What’s the result of the said research?

Comforting your baby on demand could minimise fussing and crying during the early weeks, concludes St James-Roberts, who presented his findings at a conference on infant sleeping and crying in Leicester, UK, last month. “But it makes no difference to the unsoothable bouts of crying that are the core of colic.”

The result will be published in Pediatrics this week.

Updated: The result is published in Pediatrics Vol. 117 No. 6 June 2006

Tag: Parenting

Letting babies cry will only end in more tears [newscientist.com]

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