Parents from other countries: how is "sleep training" handled overseas?

[Anonymous]

Interesting discussion. Could the poster who said that its easy to get a 12-week-old to sleep through the night if only you know the appropriate tricks and tools PLEASE elaborate. Seriously. I need to hear what your tricks and tools are!

[Anonymous]

I was Googling around based on this discussion and found some links that others may also find interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Babies-Ourselves-Biology-Culture/dp/0385483627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272397095&sr=8-1 (this book by an anthropology professor looks at how culture influences child-care. this is from the Library Journal book review: "In discussing these societies, she illustrates that although there are numerous ways to care for babies, some cultural norms of care are actually at odds with the way infants have evolved. Thus, parents should expect "trade-offs" when they act in opposition to how babies are designed.")

http://bawlingbabies.blogspot.com/2006/06/quotes-from-various-doctors.html (this seems to quote a lot of sources of info about infants being left to cry to sleep)

the only link from the above that I've followed so far is http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083020.ece (about a book that links various neurological benefits to cosleeping. Among other things, it quotes a study that says that many babies left to cry develop digestive problems later in life, and it also addresses a SIDS point brought up on this thread):
Sunderland argues that putting children to sleep alone is a peculiarly western phenomenon that may increase the chance of cot death, also known as sudden infant death syndrome (Sids). This may be because the child misses the calming effect on breathing and heart function of lying next to its mother. “In the UK, 500 children a year die of Sids,” Sunderland writes. “In China, where it [co-sleeping] is taken for granted, Sids is so rare it does not have a name.”

[Anonymous]

I know Australians are, on the whole, just as into the whole "sleep expert" phenomenon. When we were living in Australia we met just as many people doing CIO as co-sleeping. Basically same deal as the US.True of Canada, too.

[Anonymous]

Wow!!

[Anonymous]

I don't get a rat's a$s.