Pick up put down
Also called PUPD, PU/PD, PU PD, pick up, put down, pick-up-put-down, pick up put down method
Pick up put down, often written PUPD or PU/PD, is a gentle sleep training method in which a parent picks up a crying baby to calm them and then lays them back down. Parents use the name and its short forms when they talk about trying it, doing it or giving it up.
How it's said
Don't want to do CC or CIO and am hoping PUPD is a gentler method.
...I'm starting to think that PUPD is just another name for controlled crying.
...my own stay and support approach that does support picking up but does not over-stimulate the child as PUPD may do.
Who says it
Not to be confused with
- Cry it out leaves a baby to cry without being picked up, while pick up put down has a parent lift the baby whenever they cry or fuss. Some parents see pick up put down as the gentler of the two.
Where it came from
Pick up put down was popularized by Tracy Hogg, a British nurse nicknamed the baby whisperer, in her book Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. She wrote it with journalist Melinda Blau, and it came out in 2001.
Parenting writers and sleep consultants shorten the name to PUPD.