How to Comfort Your Crying Baby

Baby's Favorite Moves

1. Holding the baby close and taking a walk while singing a lullaby is very calming to most babies.

2. Have a good colic reliever handy, in case the baby is prone to colic.

3. Change of hands works great for some. A friendly face may calm a cranky baby surprisingly.

4. Warm water head wipe often soothes the child to sleep distracting them away from the cause.

Every baby is different and needs a different treatment when they are uncomfortable and cranky. After a few tries, however, all parents understand how to pacify their little one.

Below mentioned are some tried and tested tips:

1. Sing Them a Lullaby:
You must have sung him numerous lullabies and probably he’d have signalled some of his favorites. Gently rock him as you sing it again and again to pacify him and put him to sleep.

2. Change the Place:
Take the baby for a drive with gentle breeze blowing. Or maybe just take him away from the scene to distract him. It helps taking the baby’s mind off from the source of crankiness.

3. Hold the Baby Close:
Calmly hold the baby and take a walk. Patiently rub his back gently till it starts to soothe the baby to sleep or calmness. Babies switch moods very frequently; holding them close provides them the warmth and intimacy with you and makes them feel secure and comforted.

4. Administer Gripe Water:
The formula has proven comforting effects for ages of child care. Colic or any muscular pains may be relaxed with regular feeds of gripe water.

5. Noises, Some Favorite Ones
Babies have their own interpretation of noises or music around them. What may seem like a noise to us may be soothing or fun to them. Running water, a distant train whistle, any steady and constant white noise (background noises) or a favourite tune may work wonders in pacifying you little one. Discover that.

6. Massage or Warm Head Wash:
Many babies love a warm body massage or a warm head wipe. Gradual tries will help you figure out if your baby belongs to this brigade.

7. Magic Mirror:
Often babies are distracted by their own images as they take some time to comprehend the image concept. Place them or hold them against the mirror and let them witness the scene. Most of them slip into a calm, astonished, or even funny zone seeing themselves.

8. Careful Feeds:
Keep the feeds slow and little. Large feeds might over feed the baby leading to discomfort or colic. Small as the size of his fist, baby’s stomach can easily trigger a colic if excessively full.

Administer a mild colic medicine after consulting your paediatrician and avoid further bouts of pain with smaller frequent feeds. Also, asafoetida (commonly known as hing) rubbed gently in the belly button mixed with warm oil may works well with colic babies.