Word: ferberize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Modern baby-sleep methodologies fall into two mutually exclusive camps: the Ferber-izers and the Sears-ites. Dr. Richard Ferber is a pediatric sleep specialist and author of Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, which uses scientific-looking charts and graphs to prove that parents should let their babies cry themselves to sleep. In the other corner of the nursery are William and Martha Sears, authors of The Baby Book. The Searses are proponents of holding, swaddling, nursing and co-sleeping in the family bed. Both sides offer plenty of advice, and both are quite dogmatic. It's my feeling...
...Ferber's cry-it-out method asks parents to listen to their baby cry for longer and longer intervals of time, starting at five minutes, before going into the room. The idea is that babies need to learn how to fall asleep on their own--without parental intervention in the form of rocking or nursing. For every parent who has told me that this seems hardhearted, another has sheepishly said it worked like a charm after a few nights...