What is Controlled Crying (CC)?
Controlled Crying (CC) is a form of CIO that involves various levels of intervention. Rather than staying with the child until they sleep, or rather than simply leaving them to cry, CC advocates suggest resettling and allowing children to cry for limited periods. This is often considered “Ferberizing”, a verb coined after a Dr. Richard Ferber developed a now well known CC sleep training method. Is it as harmful as CIO? To answer this question it’s important to remember a few things. Firstly, all babies are different. What will severely inhibit one child may pose little threat to another, in terms of CIO/CC we simply cannot tell exactly how much or what our children can handle as we are unable to measure chemical and physiological responses accurately as mere observers. Secondly, CC methods do not take the aforementioned into consideration – simply applying arbitrary timescales to every baby. Since there is no way of knowing how much a child can withstand without impact, there is no way
