Putting baby to bed

A new study has found that infant sleeping techniques from ‘cry it out’ to ‘cuddle & coddle’ work about equally well to get baby used to sleeping alone, so long as the parents are consistent

ANYTHING you do will help a kid learn to go to sleep on his own, Ferber, schedules, cry it out, anything. SLEEP reviewed 52 recent studies of infant sleep techniques and found that as long as they were applied consistently, 80% of kids showed significant behavioral improvement: i.e., they went to sleep better.

- Daddy Types, on the NYT article.

Phew.