Your baby probably cries because you denied it the nourishment and comfort from breast feeding.

Faberizing is true magic. Do not believe what you read on the internet. Go to Amazon, buy the book, read the WHOLE book, and you will realize it is not cruel, hard on the kid or long term harmful.

Again, there will be comments here and on other sites. Read and think for yourself.

We did it with our kids (one plus twins) and it works.

I wish people would understand that the true cry it out method does not mean lay your baby down and let him cry for hours until he falls asleep. You set a reasonable time for crying and then go in their room and calm them back down, but without picking them up or giving them a bottle. For us we let our daughter cry for 10-15 minutes and then went in and calmed her down while she was in her crib. If at any time we thought something was wrong we went right in. The first few nights we were in and out quite a few times, but after a few days she fell asleep without crying and stayed asleep. Also this was a last resort for us. She would not fall asleep being rocked or held, so we had to let her learn to fall asleep on her own.

My son had overnight sleeping down after four months. It all went well until he was a year old, and it just came crashing down. We tried lots of different things, the gradual appearance method, the cry it out, and I remember one night we let him cry it out and it just would not end. My wife and I finally broke and checked on him, and he was shaking terribly, he was so worked up and just wasn't coming down. We didn't ask him to sleep in his own bed by himself overnight again for a few years until we moved into our current home, when he was about 3 years old. He took to it like a duck to water and doesn't even WANT us in bed with him at home anymore.

Sleeping is one of those big hot button parenting issues. In the end, I think you do what is right for your child, and that is different for every child. For mine, the answer was not to make him sleep in his own room. I wish I'd gotten that point sooner. I've tried to use that as a lesson on all aspects of his behavior, to learn what works best for him so he can succeed at his own pace.

I'm a SAHM and I'm a super sleeper - anytime anywhere. So the fact that both of my kids woke to nurse every 2 hours from their bedtime of 7pm until their getup time of 7am every night until after all 4 of their 2-yr old molars fully erupted didn't bother me a bit. Fortunately they slept in bed with me for that entire time (and beyond) so it wasn't like I ever had to get up and prepare a bottle every time and then go and get them out of their bed where they would be waiting and crying and wide awake. All I had to do whenever they barely woke up was roll over and nurse them for 5 min and then we both would just go back to sleep. Once a week I'd go to sleep at the same time as them just to get some extra shuteye.

My baby has usually been a great sleeper, especially in her first few months. She is a screamer though, and we quickly found after about 3-4 months that as long as she was dry and her belly was full, crying it out wasn't going to hurt her. She's almost 15 months now and we still have to let her cry it out before bed, usually no more than 5 minutes before she goes to sleep.

If you know baby is tired and he/she is fine, there's nothing wrong with letting them cry a few minutes, go back in and try to feed (breastfeeding cures all upsets!), and then leave again. Eventually, they'll drift off to sleep, they are tired after all