Clever Tips for Calming a Crying Baby

An infant’s crying feels ear-splitting, discomforting and ceaseless to many. Mothers soon comprehend that their little ones have an entire gamut of screams, weeps and howls. And no sooner does one feel that one has deciphered reasons for the crying, the baby employs them in new-fangled ways.

Here is a handy guide to understanding the triggering factors for tearing and helpful, imaginative ways of calming crying babies.

• Running the shower.
• Rubbing the baby’s tummy.
• Crooning to the tunes of ‘Rock-a-bye-baby’.
• Checking out some foliage with the baby.
• Barking or burping or making some astounding noises.
• Stroking the baby’s mane.
• Turning on the hair-dryer or some white noise.
• Handing over the child to some other person.
• Strolling over gravelly or uneven lawns.
• Massaging the infant’s feet.
• Making humorous facial expressions.
• Holding a warm bottle of formula-feed on the child’s tummy.
• Switching on the vacuum-cleaner.
• Singing some soothing song.
• Finding an endearing ball of fur (cat or dog) that the baby could gaze at.
• Checking out if the infant may be ailing due to other reasons.

Other helpful pointers

• In case one is unsure why the baby is shedding tears then do a nifty check of the top offenders like has he/she been breastfed, burping done or any diaper soiling.
• Babies enjoy the feeling when they are swaddled, swayed and shushed that mimics their experiences in the mom’s uterus. As a newly born is incapable of controlling his/her muscles hence when swaddled it helps keep the arm and leg areas close to his/her body and letting the baby get much-needed sound slumber.
• Several mothers start tip-toeing around newly born babies, deeming that they yearn for quietness and peace. Actually, the contrary might often hold true as the baby may crave for worldly noises such as maternal or father’s voices or music. Also reading audibly in a regular voice tenor or singing or getting imaginative to calm the baby.
• For infants in the six to twelve months age band, self-soothing might give them an important lesson. In case the infant starts crying on each instant one exits the room then playing ‘peek-a-boo’ would aid in teaching the infant the notion of item intransience and ultimately he/she would comprehend that the parent is yet close by. Although the infant would yet shed tears though not on each occasion.
• At times, just simple things like not being able to have a view of the opposing wall or getting a hold of somewhat different-appearing plaything are just what the infant wants. Hence when the wailing starts, avoid getting frenzied and offering the infant 5 novel items for absorbing in the time gap of 5 seconds and instead taking it easy and slowing down.
• Teaching sign language is helpful for 6 month onwards babies assisting them in communicating their wants while not going weepy.
• In one to two year old infants, hunger, tiredness or illness mostly cures weepiness and at times even prevented with snacking, napping or treatment. When children of this age start to scream and cry particularly in public places then firstly seek a quieter location and dealing with the tot’s tearing. Infants should be encouraged on using words for connecting to their emotions so that when they cry adults could comprehends the reasons with greater ease.

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