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Should we leave babies to cry?
9 Jun 2009
She writes that she dislikes the method because babies cannot be trained at a young age, and that “a mother's natural instincts tell her to go to a crying baby”.
Dr. Stoppard comments that stress in infancy caused by leaving a young baby to cry can result in “high levels of stress hormones that dampen the formation of a healthy brain”. She advises mothers to hug their child, pick up the child when it wants to be picked up and put her down when she is ready for sleep.
(Independent, 9 June 2009)
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