June 1 Part 2

I always had this doubt: Should you let infants cry for some time before you attend to them or do you care for them immediately?
Some people say that letting the baby cry is good and some say its bad.
Well, here is the latest news on this. Courtesy London's Metro newspaper.

Letting babies cry just leads to more tears, research suggests.
Comforting upset newborns makes them cry less during the first weeks of life, said the study by the University of London.
The research contradicts advice in a book by Gwyneth Paltrow's nanny, Rachel Waddilove, that allowing babies to cry makes them more settled.
Prof Ian St James-Roberts, who led the study, split the test group into three parts – one that responded whenever their baby cried, one that held their baby for most of their waking hours and a group that left their baby crying.
The group which left their infant crying for longer found that at two and five weeks old they were crying 50 per cent more than the other two groups – and they were still crying more at 12 weeks.

~Murali