How to soothe a baby?
A checklist of 33 time-tested baby calmers
- Wearing baby in a sling
- Dancing with baby
- Swinging baby
- Car rides
- Pushing baby in a carriage
- Taking a walk
- Nursing while walking with baby
- Draping baby over a beach ball
- Comfort sucking: nursing, pacifiers
- Music, tapes of womb sounds, heartbeats
- Echo baby’s cry
- Tick-tock of clock or pendulum swing of grandfather clock
- Singing lullabies
- Vibrating, humming gadgets wrapped in diaper or blanket
- Running water
- Tape of environmental sounds
- Metronome
- Ceiling fan, bathroom fan
- Sounds of vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, washing machine, air conditioner
- Show baby your “silly face”
- Magic mirror
- Fire in fireplace
- Gazing at traffic
- Watching parent on exercise machine
- Watching television or video
- Infant massage
- Warm fuzzy
- Neck nestle
- Creating the most peaceful home environment
- A warm bath together
- Eliminating bothersome foods from mother’s diet if breastfeeding, or changing formula
- Red cloth on lamp so it creates red light