Colic
Crying is baby’s only way to communicate with the parents. With hearing his crying, the parents will know that the baby is starving, not comfortable because his diaper is full or maybe he just want to be near his mommy or daddy. But sometimes, baby cries for no reason. It is usually happen within the first three weeks of life until the baby is three to four months old. This condition called colic, or infant colic.
Dr. Harvey Karp, a Santa Monica pediatrician, and the author of “The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way To Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer” found a method to make babies stop crying and calm down, even when he is colic. The method is called “Cuddle Cure” or the “5 S’s” consists of these steps:
- Swaddling
It is like wrapping a baby with a blanket very tightly, to imitate the condition in his mother’s womb - Holding the infant on his Side or Stomach
- Saying “Shhh” loudly in the baby’s ear for white noise
sometimes the sound of electric breastpump can make the baby calm - Swinging (or jiggling) the infant
but don’t shake him, mechanical swing sometimes help keep the pace. - Giving him something to Suck on.
It can be breast, pacifiers or your clean thumb. Don’t give milk or expressed breastmilk in bottle everytime he cries, because sometimes it can overfed your baby, and caused the excessive spitting up or reflux