Babies left to cry are highly stressed.

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It often divides parents – the “let them cry” – “don’t let them cry” debate but a study in the University of Texas has found unsurprisingly that that babies left to cry have elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, even after they have learned to settle themselves.

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