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When ever i read about sleep-training, my shoulders shiver like i was watching a horromovie. I don't exactly know why i have such strong feelings about it, well against it, but just everything about it sounds so wrong to me, in headlights. I asked my mom if she did that with me and she said no. But then again she doesn't remember that i slept with a light to an age where i remember it... so who knows (:

I tried to find the link to the research made with babys where they were measuring heartrate and brain-functions on babys who were left to cry (therefore to sleep); the result was, that even when babies stopped crying and parents assumed they were sound asleep, the babies heartrates were still in panicmode and hysteria. (If i find the link to it, ill edit this post by adding it in. I'll let you know.)

How would i feel, if i cried and nobody came to ask me if im okay? (Well, we do have this kind of society sadly aswell, but anyway.) What an perspective! And from parents point of view...we don't have a flowery slumber time here either, but *shrug* ... to complain about how someone has to pat their kid, or sing songs, or rock in the chair for 30 minutes... really? 
A scared hysterical child who's given up the initial feeling to cry for help and comfort, is any better?

I do complain being tired and that it's the hardest part of it all. But there are solutions, better ones and we can manage, granny helps, a friend, a book.

Well, that's that. 

Elizabeth Pantley's book "The no-cry sleep solution" may be of help to someone. Or if someone is interested in co-sleeping.