Posted on 09/13/2022 9:08:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Most parents have experienced frustration when their infants cry excessively and refuse to sleep. Scientists have found that the best strategy to calm them down is by holding and walking with them for five minutes.
Kuroda and her colleagues have been studying the transport response, an innate reaction seen in many altricial mammals—those whose young are immature and unable to care for themselves—such as mice, dogs, monkeys, and humans. They observed that when these animals pick up their infants and start walking, the bodies of their young tend to become docile and their heart rates slow.
..The team found that when the mother walked while carrying the baby, crying infants calmed down and their heart rates slowed within 30 seconds. A similar calming effect occurred when the infants were placed in a rocking cot, but not when the mother held the baby while sitting or placed the baby in a still crib.
When the mothers tried to put their sleepy babies to bed, more than one-third of the participants became alert again within 20 seconds. The team found that all babies produced physiological responses, including changes in heart rate, that can wake them up the second their bodies detach from their mothers. However, if the infants were asleep for a longer period before being laid down, they were less likely to awaken during the process.
Based on their findings, the team proposes a method for soothing and promoting sleep in crying infants. They recommend that parents hold crying infants and walk with them for five minutes, followed by sitting and holding infants for another five to eight minutes before putting them to bed. The protocol, unlike other popular sleep training approaches such as letting infants cry until they fall asleep themselves, aims to provide an immediate solution for infant crying.
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My father always said that a shot of whiskey and swift kick in the head worked to quiet me.
Hot toddies, here.
He knew how to put me out of his misery.
:)
So you carry them for five minutes... Do you carry them back, too?
Five minutes driving around the farm had my daughter fall asleep every time.
any mom or dad in the world KNOWS how to soothe their child....we don’t need no stinking scientists being paid humungous bucks to find out the obvious...
i would sing “strangers in the nite” in a baritone voice
worked everytime
It took us 15 to 20 minutes. Our baby had the colic.
I think we also finally found the baby formula that worked.
I certainly hope no one paid for this study. Parents have been walking infants up and down the hall and all through the house for decades in order to get them to fall asleep. I suspect it comforts them as they feel as if they are safely tucked back into the womb and moving along with their mother’s body once again.
Back in the day, it was stuff like Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup
Great for everything from teething babies to diarrhea
Supposed to give mom the rest she needed
Which mom got after her own big swig of that morphine sulfate
Jao BiXiden certainly needs some soothing.
Which every tired mom knows
Two am walking circles around a kitchen or first floor
A slight bounce helps too
That’s a good song. If you have the voice, it sounds great accapelo, as you probably did. The melody for Strangers In The Night was written by Bert Kaempfert, a German jazz musician. Before the lyrics came, he called the song
“Beddy Bye”. So you were on the right track, using it as a lullaby.
Where would we be without “science” discovering things we’ve already known for ages?
And how many 5 minute increments does she suggest? A couple hours worth while the baby sleeps and you don’t, then the baby wakes up and you are left sleepless?
All you end up doing is training the baby to not sleep unless you walk it somthe baby ends up training you.
They also sat to make sure he or she is vaxxed
I’m no scientist but I could have told you that. Did another scientific study reveal that drinking water relieves thirst?
Exactly.
They like singing and dancing too.
That they do
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