Father of paediatrics, father of paediatrics-Emmett Holt,

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In 2015, Wendy Hall, a paediatric sleep researcher based in Canada, studied 235 families of six- to eight-month-old babies. The purpose: to see if sleep training worked.

By its broadest definition, sleep training can refer to any strategy used by parents to encourage their babies to sleep at night; which can be as simple as implementing a nighttime routine or knowing how to read an infant's tiredness cues. Tips like these were an important part of Hall's intervention.

So was a strategy that has become commonly associated with "sleep training" and tends to be far more divisive: encouraging babies to put themselves to sleep without their parents' help, including when they wake up at night, by limiting or changing a parent's response to their child. This may mean a parent is present, but refrains from picking up or nursing the baby to physically soothe them. It can involve set time intervals where a baby is left alone, punctuated by parent check-ins. Or, in the cold-turkey approach, it may mean leaving the baby and shutting the door. Any of these approaches often mean letting the baby cry - hence the common, if increasingly unpopular, moniker "cry-it-out".

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In 1892, the "father of paediatrics", Emmett Holt, went so far as to argue that crying alone was good for children: "in the newly born infant, the cry expands the lungs".

1. Should children be left to 'cry it out' during the night?

2. If a child is crying during the night should the child be brought in to the parental bed?

3. Should a child start their night of sleep in the parental bed?

4. What a pros and cons of co-sleeping? Do_address different types of co-sleeping.

IN ADDITION: does a lack of sleep have an impact upon cognitive skills - try to include specific cognitive skills / willingness and composition of play

Ideas to consider: an infant's disrupted sleep can affect the rest of the family

If a child has learned not to cry on waking, parents may mistakenly believe that the child has slept through the night.

Sleep training is a relatively new phenomenon.

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