How damaging is mother in law doing 5 minutes of cry it out with 19 month old?
While having dinner at the in law's, my MIL just dropped that she has been laying our 19 month old in the crib while she's at her house for the day, leaving the room and letting her cry for "no more than 5 minutes" .
We have never sleep trained, never will, and never had the need to. She is always held and supported to sleep, and for any wake ups, then transfered to the crib.
My question is, how bad is this that MIL has been doing this once or twice a month thus far? Is this going to cause lasting problems if continued term?
I will say something to hubs, but I doubt she will change anything about how she's doing it.
I certainly don't like that she's doing it. She looks forward to going to her house, and is always bright and happy when we pick her up.