Getting a crying baby to quieten down and go to sleep quickly is the ultimate goal of any tired, sleep-deprived parent. Now, a group of scientists from Japan believe they have found the best way to ...

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Trying to comfort a crying baby can be stressful, especially when it is late at night and parents are operating on only a few hours of sleep. Sometimes, babies that have been fed or changed won't ...

It is normal for babies to cry — sometimes as much as two to four hours a day. Here are the first things to check: Is your baby hungry? Do they need to be burped? Are they too hot or cold? Is their ...

When an infant cries, parents frequently wonder whether they should soothe the baby or let the baby calm itself down. If they respond to every sob, won't the baby cry more? Isn't that spoiling the ...

From experiments conducted by the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan to understand babies' behaviors, researchers recommend that parents hold crying infants and walk with them for 5 minutes, then ...

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 ...

BOSTON – A new study sheds some light on what may be the best way to soothe a crying baby. Many parents have experienced the emotional pain and stress of trying to get a crying baby to settle, but ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --Scientists in Japan and Italy published a paper analyzing the optimal method to soothe a crying infant. The findings were published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, and found ...

When you’re preparing to become a parent, you know that hearing your baby cry will be part of the experience. What you may not be ready for is hours and hours of crying that can’t be soothed in the ...

Dennis McCarthy has the day off. Here is a “Best of Dennis” column originally published on May 16, 1991 in the Los Angeles Daily News. Uncle Al is pacing the maternity ward, doing the job he does best ...

Scientists have uncovered the most effective technique to soothe a crying baby. An experiment involving 21 infants aged less than 7 months found they were more likely to stop crying and fall asleep ...