No need to lose sleep over your crying baby

It's official: Letting a baby cry itself to sleep is neither cruel nor bad for the mental health of the child or its parents.

According to researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, what they call the controlled crying technique helps resolve sleeping problems and wards off depression in mothers.

Rather than immediately tending to a crying child, parents steeled themselves and waited for it to settle back to sleep. Babies under 6 months were not left alone because they needed to be fed during the night.