‘Cry it Out’ Sleeping Technique Does Not Harm Infants, Researchers Say

It may be fine to let your baby cry until he or she falls asleep, according to a new study. Writing in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from Flinders University in Australia say that letting a baby “cry it out” — in other words, cry itself to sleep — will not cause long-term psychological damage. The researchers came to the conclusion by studying 43 sets of parents with infants between the ages of 6 months and 16 months, all of whom had reported their child had problems...

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