Re:New research into "shaken baby syndrome" puts convictions...
by btilly on Monday September 21, 2009 @08:52PM
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Which is sad. Babies in the first 3 months of life respond very well to the right kind of jostling. The 5 steps that every new parent should learn are: Swaddle, roll on Side, make a Shushing sound, Swing the baby back and forth, then finally Soothe with a pacifier. (I almost never went to the last one.)
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Re:New research into "shaken baby syndrome" puts convictions...
by Afton on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @12:35AM
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Babies, like people, start to act differently from one another almost as soon as their born (earlier, if you ask my wife).
My friends had a colicky baby, and there was simply no way whatsoever to convince this child not to cry/scream. None. No way. There was no set of jostling, shushing, swinging, rocking, jiggling, singing, twisting, or hopping in place that would stop it. And as for the last one, neither of my two children could ever get the hang of a pacifier.
Re:New research into "shaken baby syndrome" puts convictions...
by btilly on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @02:14AM
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I agree that babies act differently from the start. It is also true that a very small number of babies are truly inconsolable, and most babies go through periods of being extremely hard to console. Often with good reason. For instance both of mine developed a painful problem with gas at about 2 months of age.
That said, the combination of strategies that I described works amazingly well. The fact that they won't _always_ work doesn't diminish how much they help.