I really wanted "attachment parenting" to work for me and my baby, but it did not. I had a baby with colic, and I found that the ideology in this book that you, as the mother, have to do everything possible to stop your baby from crying increased my stress and made me feel worse. After my experience with a colicky baby, I believe that babies sometimes do cry for "no reason," or at least not one that we as adults can always discern with our current knowledge. This book sets up a false dichotomy between attachment parenting and "crying it out" which can be quite stressful in its own right if your baby cries inconsolably.