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Parenting: 1-Year-Olds Community

Baby is becoming a toddler. She may be walking, talking, and showing her ... more

Reply: Mommy love?

I know you posted this a while ago, but I wanted to chime in and give you my support....

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Reply: Need advice about carseat issue (Half-Vent)

Tough situation! For starters, if it were me, I'd make sure I was always the one who...

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Reply: Feeling Humiliated

Lurking here ... I'm so sorry for what you're going through. Although I don't know...

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Reply: 1 year old crying bad for his brain?

I know, right??!! He was probably like, "These women are crazy!"

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Yeah, I think for this topic in particular it's difficult to explain your feelings on...

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I understand there is a spectrum when it comes to using the term CIO. If a child...

Posted by leftcoastgirl

I understand there is a spectrum when it comes to using the term CIO. If a child cries and the parent goes in to comfort them, then leaves again once the child is settled, I don't consider it CIO. If a child cries and the parent DOESN'T respond to those cries (either because they're waiting for a certain number of minutes to pass or because they aren't going to respond at all), then I do consider that to be CIO. That's the kind of situation I'm talking about when I referred to the stress / anxiety / fear of crying alone.

Anon, I can certainly respect the fact that some parents find this method to be effective and worthwhile. But there are also moms on the parenting boards I've seen who have reported that it took weeks or longer for CIO to work. Or those who have had to do it over and over because their child sleeps great for a while and then reverts back to not sleeping well. And there's also the argument (which I'm a believer in) that CIO doesn't teach children to sleep better, it just teaches them that when they cry at night no one is coming to help them.

I never really had an opinion on this topic until I had a daughter. When I became a mother, the idea of leaving her to cry when what I wanted to do was comfort her was just too abhorrent for me.

Anyone ever see the CIO episode of "Mad About You" from back in the '90s? It's an episode that takes place over the course of a night when the parents are Ferberizing their baby. It's torturous for them as the "don't go in the room" periods grow longer and longer. Finally, Jamie (the mom) can't take it anymore and gets up to rush to her daughter - except just as she does the baby stops crying and (presumably) falls asleep. You'd think the parents would celebrate, but instead Jamie starts crying and says to her husband, "We broke her heart!"

I'll reiterate that I support other parents in their decisions about their own kids, but that episode really illustrates my feelings on CIO.View Thread

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Reply: 1 year old crying bad for his brain?

I think there is a difference, though. A child crying in the arms of a loving...

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Reply: 1 year old crying bad for his brain?

I agree with daisy729. Of course (like any mom) I wouldn't allow my child to run in...

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Reply: 1 year old crying bad for his brain?

Hope I didn't offend you with the blog link. My objective had been to outline the...

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Reply: 1 year old crying bad for his brain?

Here's a blog (opinion piece, of course, not a scientific paper or anything) that...

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