How to calm a newborn? Perhaps this is the first problem that young parents have to learn to deal with. Continuous and loud crying of a young child can cause horror among young mothers and fathers. However, you don’t need to be frightened of this behavior of the baby, for him this is the only way to show you that something is bothering him, and just to relieve emotional stress. Pretty soon, you will begin to distinguish between your child’s crying with pain, hunger and whimpering from what he wants on the hands.
So your child is crying. What to do? How to calm a newborn?
First think, are there any natural physiological needs that are not satisfied? That is, in other words ...
1. Feed the baby. Often, having at its disposal a breast or a bottle with a mixture, the baby instantly calms down. If he eagerly drinks milk, rest assured, he was simply hungry. If this does not help, then ...
2. Check the dryness of the diaper, change it. Even slight skin moisture may disturb newborns. Yes, and the process of changing the diaper can reassure him. Talk to him at this time, smile or sing.
How to calm a newborn if everything is in order with a diaper and food?
3. Hold the baby to you. Sometimes, if you hold the child upright, he may burp air, which causes him discomfort in the stomach.
4. Distract the baby with a bright object, unusual sound, etc.
5. Give the baby a pacifier. The sucking reflex is basic for newborns, and its implementation soothes, and sometimes euthanizes, them. Often, the child himself begins to suck a finger instead of a nipple.
6. Swaddling is a great way to calm a newborn baby. Remember that for the last three months the baby has been very limited by the uterine cavity, where it is warm and comfortable. During swaddling, an approximate state is achieved - arms and legs are pressed, and the baby will not wake up and will not scare itself with a sudden movement of the limb.
This advice on how to calm a newborn baby may come in handy much later. Even a one-year-old overexposed naughty man can be reassured by wrapping himself in a blanket and shaking it under quiet singing.
7. Shake the baby. This can be done both in a stroller or cradle, and on your hands. Now they even produce special swings with a motion sickness mode. The main thing here is not to overdo it. If you very much shake the child from side to side, he may not fall asleep, but simply lose consciousness from dizziness!
8. Take a walk with the baby. A change of scenery, the smooth movement of a stroller and fresh air work wonders!
9. Tiny hot. You may have eaten it or swaddled it too tight.
10. Put the child on a barrel. Surprisingly, it often helps!
11. Use white noise. You probably saw a video where crying children instantly calm down to the sound of a working vacuum cleaner, washing machine or microwave. An even or rhythmic noise calms the child, because it is similar to what he heard in the womb - the noise of the intestines, stomach and heartbeat. Take the crying baby and start saying “shhh” quite loudly near his ear. Or just give out an intuitive hiss as you rock.
If you used all the ways to calm a crying newborn, but he continues to cry violently and continuously for more than 40 minutes - one hour, call a doctor or call an ambulance.