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Name: The Happiest Baby on the Block
Rating: 4.2 (96 reviews)
Author: Harvey Karp

Harvey Karp

The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

4.2 (96 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Become an expert baby-calmer.

Do you know how the Navy SEALS get trained to endure torture? They’re deprived of sleep for days on end. Do you know how they’re kept awake? By the shrill sounds of a baby crying for hours and hours and hours.

If this situation sounds familiar to you (and you don’t happen to be a Navy SEAL), then you’re probably a new mom or dad.

And luckily for you, there’s something you can do about it. These blinks won’t only help you understand why babies cry so much; they’ll also teach you what to do about it. Baby-calming is a skill, something that can be practiced and mastered. All you need to do is learn five simple and time-proven techniques – the five “S”s – and how they apply to your baby.

You’ll also find out

why your baby loves to be shushed;
how being smart is related to premature birth; and
why bouncing babies are happy babies.

Babies cry because they’re brought into the world before they’re ready.

When a foal is born, it’s able to run. But what about human babies? Well, there’s really no animal born more helpless. Newborn babies can’t sit up on their own, they can’t turn on their own and they can’t even burp without assistance.

Frail, fragile and constantly overwhelmed, babies need a soothing, stable place with constant nourishment: the womb. Unfortunately, babies are born about three months before they’re physically ready to enter the world.

Why do we enter the world so early?

We have our big brains to thank for that one. Human survival depends on having a sophisticated brain and babies are born with rather large heads to allow for this. If the baby stayed in the womb longer than nine months, its head would grow too big for it to be born, and it’d get stuck in the birth canal.

Because of this early arrival, babies cry for help. And they rely on you to respond. Crying is a baby’s instinctual reaction, its way of ensuring it gets constant care. When a baby is hungry, cold, in need of a fresh diaper or feeling afraid, its first reflex is to cry.

Crying is natural, and parents shouldn’t worry about spoiling their baby by responding to every cry. Think about it – how can you spoil something in its very first months in the world? Letting your baby cry is dangerous, too. It’s been linked to increased breastfeeding problems, and even crib death.

Most colicky babies cry excessively because they were born too early. Only ten percent of colicky babies suffer from a physical ailment, such as a food intolerance, while the rest exhibit colicky symptoms because they missed the fourth trimester in the womb.

So, as your child follows its instincts and starts crying, let your own instincts guide you and show your child love as soon as it needs it. Soon enough, your baby will learn to feel safe when you’re around. Nonetheless, you’ll sometimes need a few tricks up your sleeve to soothe your baby. We’ll explore these next.

Babies have a special calming reflex, and there’s an art to triggering it.

You know the knee-jerk reflex? Firmly tap your knee, right below the kneecap, and you’ll inadvertently kick your leg. This reflex obviously isn’t going to help you calm your baby. But another, equally reliable reflex will. Even the crankiest babies have a special calming reflex that protects them during pregnancy and continues to soothe them after they enter the world.

A baby’s calming reflex kicks into action during their last month in the womb, soothing the baby to prevent it from moving around too much. This is vital, since at this stage in the pregnancy the womb gets rather tight! If the baby keeps tossing and turning, it might get stuck in a position that threatens its life and the life of its mother during birth.

Swaddle your baby and keep it lying on its side to trigger the calming reflex.

Swaddling your baby – the first S – is a simple way to trigger its calming reflex. And it’s surprisingly effective. But why? Well, by wrapping your baby tightly, you’re simulating the gentle, continuous pressure of the womb. Soothed and relaxed by this pressure, your baby will be more inclined to respond to further triggers.

But hold on – isn’t swaddling bad for your baby? Many parents, after seeing their crying baby writhing and flailing its arms, worry that swaddling is too constricting. (Swaddling has also been rumored to increase the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But, on the contrary, research shows that SIDs risk is reduced if you swaddle your baby correctly.) All this squirming and flailing isn’t something that babies enjoy; they just can’t help it, and, in fact, it upsets them further. Swaddling your baby, and thus preventing movement, helps your baby feel safe again.

Use shushing and swinging to break the crying cycle.

Did you know that the sound of blood rushing around the womb is louder than a vacuum cleaner? For babies, silence is a big contrast to what they’re used to – and it drives them crazy! Noise can actually calm babies down, especially sounds that mimic the whooshing of the womb.

Shushing – the third S– is a great way to do this. A sort of white noise you can make with your mouth, shushing is an essential part of calming a wailing baby. Start with a soft “shhh” sound and slowly raise your volume to meet the level of crying, and then lower your volume as your baby quiets down.

Use pacifiers to sustain the calming reflex, and take your sleeping routine into account.

You’re close to mastering the art of triggering the calming reflex. There’s just one more S to cover. To ensure the calming reflex lasts and your baby doesn’t just start sobbing again, use sucking.

After all, for babies, to suck is to survive. Take care of nutritive sucking first. A baby needs to drink three ounces per pound of body weight. For an adult body, this would amount to gulping down gallons of milk every day! Breastfeeding is vital, and once your baby has got that down pat, start making use of pacifiers to calm your child between meals.

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The Happiest Baby on the Block (2002) tackles one of the biggest issues new parents will face: the constant wails and tears of their baby. These blinks explain why your baby’s survival depends on your responding to its cries, and how, by triggering the calming reflex, you can make your baby feel calm and safe.

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It became apparent to me that our culture – advanced in so many ways – was backward when it came to baby soothing.

—Harvey Karp

Wer The Happiest Baby on the Block lesen sollte

New parents feeling helpless in the face of their child’s cries
Readers interested in the psychology of babies
Anyone who’s expecting

Über den Autor

Harvey Karp is a bestselling author and assistant professor of pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine. His childcare strategy – the Happiest Baby Way – is recommended by many specialized educators in hospitals and clinics both across the United States and around the world.

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