Well said. It's all about semantics I guess. If I describe what we do to someone who sleeps with their baby every night, they will say we are doing "cry-it-out

Well said. It's all about semantics I guess. If I describe what we do to someone who sleeps with their baby every night, they will say we are doing "cry-it-out." Also, when people ask us why our baby sleeps so well, we usually say "we sleep trained her...did a little crying out." It's not exactly accurate but saying anything else would take longer to explain. Laziness on our part. And frankly, I didn't really know that those night time cries were not really cries in the way that I thought they were. It wasn't until she screamed a few nights and then puked and got sick that I realized what a real "cry" was for that age. So you're right, we don't really do "cry-it-out." But if cry-it-out means putting your baby in a crib awake and letting them make some "noise" and fall asleep on their own, then yes, we do cry-it-out. But boy does it work well.