Some new parents are turning to AI in a quest to sleep train their newborns. A mother places her sleeping newborn in the crib. Many parents (myself included) have turned to ChatGPT for pediatric sleep advice. It started when I came across a Reddit thread about parents using ChatGPT to help with baby sleep. In a state of exhaustion, my curiosity piqued. Since then, I’ve asked it about helping with a nap schedule and used it as a sounding board to complain at 2 a.m. when my baby is wide awake — and I’m not alone. Baby sleep isn’t a new parenting problem created by very online parents. It’s been in the public parenting sphere for decades. In 1985, Dr. Richard Ferber wrote the bestselling book, “Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems,” later updated in 2006, detailing his method that advises parents to let their babies cry to sleep for a specific period of time before comforting them. The debate over whether the Ferber method and other “crying it out” methods are good or bad still exists in parenting today — but they’re happening almost exclusively online. Some sleep consultants have branded themselves by specific sleep training methods, promising to implement their own version of Ferber’s “cry it out” method, while others promise a “gentler” way. But as I reported for Salon previously, there is no authoritative baby-sleep-consultant board to certify that coaches are properly trained and licensed. A scam could be just a click away, and it’s possible that while someone might look like an authority figure on infant sleep on Instagram, they don’t have any training at all. Parenting is something that people love to have strong opinions about. When millennial parents embraced “gentle parenting,” some wondered if they were being “too gentle.” When baby-led weaning became the popular way to feed infants, some said it made parenting a lot harder. And when it comes to sleep, many parents today feel as if they have to be secretive if they choose to co-sleep because they’re afraid that the truth will be met with backlash. Inevitably, the next trend of parenting to be judged will be the use of artificial intelligence.
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