The Happiest Baby on the Block

A friend of ours lent us The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD.  This is a pretty good video about calming your baby down.  In the video they talk about treating the first 3 months of life as the “4th Trimester” where the baby is really still just a fetus.  And if you do things that remind them when they were in the uterus, its calming because they are accustomed to it.  In the video he teaches the 5 “S’s” of calming your baby down.  They are swaddling, placing them on their side, shushing or white noise, letting them suck a pacifier, and gently shaking them to mimic the normal movements in the womb.  With the right technique you can take a screaming baby to calm baby in a few seconds.  Garrett’s already pretty calm but some of the techniques have been useful.