Why I No Longer Believe Babies Should Cry Themselves to Sleep

Worth another read (from 2006), from Gabor Maté:

"'Some of our friends see us as weak parents because we haven't Ferberized our children,' says my niece Rachel Maté, a 33-year-old Vancouver lawyer and mother of two. '"You're letting your baby control your lives," they argue. But it would break my heart to let my baby cry without comforting her.'

"Named after Dr. Richard Ferber, the pediatric sleep expert quoted in an article on parents who share their beds with their children, Ferberization is the process of "training" an infant to sleep by ignoring her crying. As a family physician, I used to advocate the Ferber technique and, as a parent, practised it myself. Since then, I have come to believe that the method is harmful to infant development and to a child's long-term emotional health."

Vancouver physician Gabor Maté is the co-author of Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers.