If you  have not read or heard of it, great book called The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff, In Search of Happiness Lost. Essentially a story about the beginnings of Attachment parenting, she is a Social Anthropologist who lived with a South American tribe for 2 years and studied their parenting ways.  Crying is always a signal from the Baby/Toddler that something is amiss and not right, and is a method to restore the expected continuum of experience for a human Baby, which for the first year, is co sleeping, baby wearing and exclusive Breast Feeding. It just breaks my heart that we are creating an entire generation of Kids who will become adults with not only OCD, but potentially,  an inability to experience any true  intimacy in their life. Even my dear friend who nursed both her first son for 2 years and this little guy now 18 months, is letting him "cry it out at night", because she is tired of being woken up at night with  him co sleeping, and he needs to learn how to fall asleep "without props". Come on, name me one adult you know who DOES NOT have props, and since when is the feeling of security that comes from a loving and affectionate presence of a parent a prop?  Now I do not have kids, so granted I do not know what it is like to be woken at night, but I have not slept more than 4 hours a night for 10 years due to premature loss of Ovary and Perimenopause, you just learn to deal , don't you.  It is not forever, they will not be co sleeping at age 10. Lisa Mooney  		 	   		  
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