Let's Admit It: We Have No Idea if Sleep Training Babies Makes Sense

I’m all for science and research and studies. But sometimes I’m also really for when we just sit back and admit we have reached an impasse on something. Today, that impasse is sleep training a baby.

Ain’t nobody knows the right thing to do at this point. There is currently a debate raging in the Internet’s more hallowed parenting halls about whether it “takes guts” to sleep train an infant or not. The thrust of this begins with Motherlode, the NYT parenting blog, where Aimee Molloy offers “Sleep Training at 8 Weeks: Do You Have the Guts?”

In it, she ponders the hotly contested parenting issue of whether or not to sleep train and if so, how young. Molloy and her husband attended their two-month check up at the bustling Tribeca Pediatrics in New York City, presenting a happy baby who was gaining weight, nursing well, and sleeping 6 to 8 hours a night.

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