In case you haven’t heard – Ferber (of the famous Ferberizing cry-it-out technique) has been in the news lately (including NY Times & Good Morning America) saying that he has been misunderstood and that he never meant that crying it out should be used for all babies/children. He’s been quoted as saying you should try gentle sleep ideas first.
Here’s two links:
http://www.metronews.ca/column_relating.asp?id=12339&cid =636
http://babyparenting.about.com/b/a/216406.htm
He’s also revised his thoughts on co-sleeping! This is a quote from an MSN article:
“Now, in a new edition of his book due out this week, he has omitted his statement about the psychological consequences of co-sleeping. “That’s one sentence I wish I never wrote,” he told NEWSWEEK. “It was describing the general thinking of the time, but it was not describing my own experience or philosophy.”
Solitary sleeping was the norm when Ferber’s first book came out two decades ago. But the number of adults routinely sharing a bed with an infant more than doubled between 1993 and 2000, according to the National Infant Sleep Position Study led by the National Institutes of Health. The 2003 study found that in a two-week period, 45 percent of infants spent some time at night in an adult bed. There’s growing acceptance of co-sleeping among pediatricians as well. “What ever you want to do, whatever you feel comfortable doing, is the right thing to do, as long as it works,” Ferber writes.”
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