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"BibliographyThe list below is not specifically for studies on the impact of controlled crying on infants because there are no records of such studies. The list has sources of general background information related to sleep and to understanding children and stress."
 
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Controlled crying (also known as controlled comforting) is when parents respond to their infant’s cries and gently comfort them, then return at increasing time intervals to assist the infant to self-settle while knowing that the parent is still there. The key words there are respond and return.

The recommended implementation of such a technique is after six months of age. By Piaget’s theory of object permanence, this is the developmental stage when babies understand that an object (in this case the parent) still exists even when it is out of sight.

Controlled crying is not “extinction”. The extinction method is a dramatically-termed technique which refers to leaving a baby to “cry it out”. For example, when the infant cries at night, the parent shuts the door to the nursery and does not respond at all. The idea is that eventually the baby will understand that the parent is not returning and will self-settle.

In terms of controlled crying (not extinction), Australian researchers found that when mothers of infants aged six to 12 months used one of two interventions (controlled crying and “camping out”, where parents remain in the room while the infant returns to sleep before quietly leaving), not only was there a significant improvement in infants’ sleep, there was also a significant reduction in maternal depressive symptoms compared with controls.

The research team followed up these mothers and infants at the age of six years, and found no difference in emotional or behavioural problems, sleep problems, attachment, parenting styles or maternal mental health between intervention and control groups.

Despite it being clear that extinction techniques were not used in this study, there was considerable controversy about these findings. A letter to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) where the original paper was published even compared the study to research conducted in Nazi Germany under Hitler.

More recently, critics of controlled crying such as Pinky McKay and Margot Sunderland have drawn attention to the long-term ill effects of controlled crying. Ms McKay notes that babies who are left to cry are at risk of sensory deprivation and potentially long-lasting brain damage induced by early trauma, similar to what we know in psychological research as learned helplessness.

These critics are supported by a position paper against the use of controlled crying from the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (AAIMH); however, this position paper has not been updated in almost ten years and explicitly notes that its reference list does not include any studies on the impact of controlled crying on infants.

The evidence from both animal and human studies is very clear that severe stress such as emotional neglect and abuse in infancy does indeed induce long-lasting changes in the developing brain. And I can see the link between extinction techniques and emotional neglect.

But it’s extreme to compare controlled crying, where the parent responds and returns, to emotional neglect such as that suffered by infants raised in Romanian orphanages. This confusion between extinction and controlled crying appears to be at the heart of the criticisms.
 
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http://m.essentialbaby.com.au/baby/...yths-of-controlled-crying-20130627-2oyqu.html


Controlled crying (also known as controlled comforting) is when parents respond to their infant’s cries and gently comfort them, then return at increasing time intervals to assist the infant to self-settle while knowing that the parent is still there. The key words there are respond and return.

The recommended implementation of such a technique is after six months of age. By Piaget’s theory of object permanence, this is the developmental stage when babies understand that an object (in this case the parent) still exists even when it is out of sight.

Controlled crying is not “extinction”. The extinction method is a dramatically-termed technique which refers to leaving a baby to “cry it out”. For example, when the infant cries at night, the parent shuts the door to the nursery and does not respond at all. The idea is that eventually the baby will understand that the parent is not returning and will self-settle.

In terms of controlled crying (not extinction), Australian researchers found that when mothers of infants aged six to 12 months used one of two interventions (controlled crying and “camping out”, where parents remain in the room while the infant returns to sleep before quietly leaving), not only was there a significant improvement in infants’ sleep, there was also a significant reduction in maternal depressive symptoms compared with controls.

The research team followed up these mothers and infants at the age of six years, and found no difference in emotional or behavioural problems, sleep problems, attachment, parenting styles or maternal mental health between intervention and control groups.

Despite it being clear that extinction techniques were not used in this study, there was considerable controversy about these findings. A letter to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) where the original paper was published even compared the study to research conducted in Nazi Germany under Hitler.

More recently, critics of controlled crying such as Pinky McKay and Margot Sunderland have drawn attention to the long-term ill effects of controlled crying. Ms McKay notes that babies who are left to cry are at risk of sensory deprivation and potentially long-lasting brain damage induced by early trauma, similar to what we know in psychological research as learned helplessness.

These critics are supported by a position paper against the use of controlled crying from the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (AAIMH); however, this position paper has not been updated in almost ten years and explicitly notes that its reference list does not include any studies on the impact of controlled crying on infants.

The evidence from both animal and human studies is very clear that severe stress such as emotional neglect and abuse in infancy does indeed induce long-lasting changes in the developing brain. And I can see the link between extinction techniques and emotional neglect.

But it’s extreme to compare controlled crying, where the parent responds and returns, to emotional neglect such as that suffered by infants raised in Romanian orphanages. This confusion between extinction and controlled crying appears to be at the heart of the criticisms.
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Synes dette forklarte det bra. Så er det jo å vite hvor grensen går.
 
Natt 2 : sov første i svimlende 3.5 :o :D fikk vann, sovnet umiddelbart. Våknet 21,22. 23 og rett før 24. 21,22 og 23 sovnet han på noen små minutter. 24 hadde jeg lagt meg inne hos han. Da tok det litt lenger før han roet seg. Virket som han sovnet flere ganger, men plutselig kom det lyder. Ikke like forbannet som i 23 tiden i går da. Usikker på hvor mange ganger fra 00.30 til 4 han våkner, men jeg tror 2. Våknet for " dagen" 4.30. Jeg lot han ligge i senga frem til 5. Bare snakket og rullet for seg selv. Håper på en bedre natt i natt :D
 
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Natt 2 : sov første i svimlende 3.5 :o :D fikk vann, sovnet umiddelbart. Våknet 21,22. 23 og rett før 24. 21,22 og 23 sovnet han på noen små minutter. 24 hadde jeg lagt meg inne hos han. Da tok det litt lenger før han roet seg. Virket som han sovnet flere ganger, men plutselig kom det lyder. Ikke like forbannet som i 23 tiden i går da. Usikker på hvor mange ganger fra 00.30 til 4 han våkner, men jeg tror 2. Våknet for " dagen" 4.30. Jeg lot han ligge i senga frem til 5. Bare snakket og rullet for seg selv. Håper på en bedre natt i natt :D
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Får håpe det blir bedre for hver natt fremover :) han må jo være trøtt.
 
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Får håpe det blir bedre for hver natt fremover :) han må jo være trøtt.
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Håper det. Lest at det gjerne er fra natt 3 man se bedring iallfall :)
Han er merkelig på den måten. Han kan være sååå trøtt og sliten, men allikevel sove så dårlig. Men gretten på dagen, det er han :(
 
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Håper det. Lest at det gjerne er fra natt 3 man se bedring iallfall :)
Han er merkelig på den måten. Han kan være sååå trøtt og sliten, men allikevel sove så dårlig. Men gretten på dagen, det er han :(
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Det er så kjipt. Mi også sover litt for lite, så er smågretten og klager endel på dagtid.
 
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