Once again, I will share this...and I will continue to share this any time this subject comes up!

"I can't sleep...I'm tired, but something is wrong. Am I hungry, or does my stomach just hurt...? My joints ache...I feel cold, and alone...these fabrics feel weird against my skin...it's so loud here, it's scary...I don't ever remember feeling like this in my old home...I was always warm, and comfortable, and my belly never hurt...it was quiet and I could hear the soothing sounds from the outside, lulling me to sleep...not anymore. Everything is so much more harsh here. I don't like it...

I'm lying in bed now, silently crying out in pain, I feel so alone, so numb inside and yet I am dying to feel loved...I used to cry myself to sleep every night, but after a while the tears would dry up and all I could do is sit in silent anguish...now the tears don't even come, but I am still awake, still in pain, still feel so hurt and alone...I wish I could console myself, I try to...but it's not the same. Sometimes my family checks on me, but their visits are short and cold, I can feel their energy...they are tired and don't want to deal with me...I still feel alone.

I can hear them talking sometimes, saying that this is good for me...that I will be more independent and that always coming to my aid won't help me to figure it out myself. I wish I could just be held close, to feel the comfort of a loved one's hug...but I am old enough to not need to be cuddled and treated like a baby. This is what the world is like, I must learn to fend for myself. I can't count on people to come running and help me just because I ask. I can't live my life expecting other's to do for me, I have to do it myself. That is life.

I have figured it out, I know what to expect from the rest of my life, and as the years go by it will get easier and easier to fend for myself and I don't need ANYONE! I am 6 months old, and I already know how the world works..."

Imagine how you would feel if left alone to cry every night, whether it be for 5 minute intervals or for hours at a time until you run out of energy and fall asleep. Imagine how it would break you, make you feel alone and hardened to your own emotions. Now imagine how a baby feels when this is done to them, when they don't even understand what is going on and why their mommy and daddy don't help them when they ask for it. Please don't do the "cry it out" method, you wouldn't want it to be done to you, so why would you do it to your helpless child??

I am a parent, I made the choice to become one, my child came from my body and that of the one I love, and I knew what I was getting into. I took the responsibility of raising a helpless, clueless, tiny human being and losing sleep for the first few weeks, months, or years is a sacrifice I am willing to make in order to do what was intended and tend to my child when s/he needs me...because one day, that child won't need me anymore, but I will still need their love...

For more FACTUAL information on the damage caused by the "cry it out" method and other variations, please read this article by bellybelly and look it up yourself! Do the research! It will shock you how unnatural and wrong this form of "sleep training" is! Please educate and pass it on: ссылка