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December 2011 Moms
rockychryslerb2010
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Interesting research on CIO
rockychryslerb2010
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Don't want to get into a CIO debate here, but just saw this interesting article on the lasting effects of CIO. Apparently, researchers found that infants left to CIO still show signs of stress after crying. They say CIO extinguished the outside appearance of distress, but babies were still experiencing stress without crying.
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Re: Interesting research on CIO
It's an interesting article, but you have to consider the source. The first comment on the article captured my thoughts exactly:
"Fascinating that the lead researcher is a member of the Attachment Parenting research group. In addition, no details regarding how they measured cortisol, when, length of crying, number of participants, age of participants, control group who did not cry, etc. are available."
The information is only as good as the research methodology. I'd have to see the full research before buying into this.
Amen! So much research when you look at either the researcher bias or who is funding the research one can't but help NOT taking it with any level of creditibility.... It's like when my dentist office tried to say that there's no benefit to doing dental cleanings anymore - when the first day of statistics we got 4 out of 5 dentists to agree on anything...
I think it makes complete sense. I mean, how would YOU feel? I remember many nights either a problem or a broken heart made me cry myself to sleep. I never felt good in the morning. I never got a restful sleep and usually woke up with a headache. I don't need research from anywhere to convince me falling asleep while screaming and crying is stressful, and even though it makes you pass out, you are not calm and restful. I have experienced it.
Definitely agree with the "look who the research comes from" ..but in general I'm not a fan of letting babies CIO anyway. I get physically uncomfortable when our youngest cries, I *have* to go comfort him. Our oldest, a toddler now.. I don't feel the same stress when he cries unless it's when he is really hurt or scared. Otherwise if he's just kind of whining/crying over night, I can let him get himself back to sleep with no stress on my end. If he wakes up terrified from a bad dream either DH or myself will go in to give him some hugs. Different kind of cry than an infant!
Last night our 5 month old got into a huge cry on the drive home from relatives..we left a little too late and he was SO overtired. It was only a 20 minute drive but I was so tense and agitated because we couldn't give him hugs to calm him down! Poor little thing.