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The biggest issue is, you need to keep rocking otherwise the baby will start crying again … but it’s a nice change to have a quiet baby for a few minutes.
When my 3 were tiny newborns like these - I would carry them like a football, but basically this - on their tummy laying on my forearm with their head in my hand and tucked against me - and they would sleep like this and it calmed them...
but its the tucking of the arms thats important - just as in swaddling - it makes them feel secure
Yeah, I know parents hates that we compare our animals to their babies but sometimes when then tell me about their child I'm like "yeah, my cat does that too".
How much difference would the doc's butt wiggle have helped do you think?
Annnnnnd, now I have the Huggins commercial with the German narrator in my head again.
Smushy butt.
Mushy, cushy tushy butt.
Build a robot (with heated body-temp arms) to hold your baby, and go do something in the meantime.
Hopefully it doesn't start calling the robot "Mama".
*lifts my fully grown man body up, wraps my arms in one hand, wiggles my butt in the other*
Me: "OMG dad, what are you doing! Put me down, Put me down!!"
Saw this 9 years ago. Tried it with our kid when he was born.
Worked fine, but we also didn't have a very fussy baby. Pretty chill most of the time.
Now? He saved up from not having his terrible two's and threes then, and is letting it all out.
He's 8 now. Only gets worse.
Really, he's fine. He has his moments, but overall he's a happy and well-adjusted kid. It was just a shock going from "he's almost perfect!" to "he's pretty much normal."
It doesn't work for colic though. The midwife thought she knew it all until meeting my firstborn.
(Here we get home midwife visits for the first few months)
Or babies without colic who get used to it. Once they are familiar with being held this way and the novelty wears off, they keep screaming about whatever was bothering them in the first place.
> (Here we get home midwife visits for the first few months)
Look at this guy in a fancy pants country that actually helps people, especially overwhelmed new parents. Well you know what America has Freedom! So take your stupid social programs that help people and make things better for everyone and shove them. This is America, we would rather vote to screw ourselves. Those yachts the billionaires have don't buy themselves you know. /s
PS: Americans are fucking idiots. Source: I am American.
Edit: Years ago I missed out on an opportunity to be a plant manager at an industrial facility in the Philippines. Had I got the job, one of the things I was planning on doing is creating some sort of support program for new mothers in particular, and new dads as well. The facility was eventually going to have an on site day care as well.
It is amazing to me how Managers in America do not understand that people are better workers if they do not have to worry about child care/providing etc. A small investment in that will create later profits.
Managers understand it for the most part but they don't get the say.
American managers job is to squeeze the most out of an employee to get accomplished what their boss wants done for the least amount of money. Nothing more.
If you'd like a more in depth resource, [this is great](https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/baby/the-5-s-s-for-soothing-babies).
What we're seeing here is the Five S's of baby soothing.
1. Swaddling
2. Side/Stomach position
3. Shushing
4. Swinging
5. Sucking (wasn't necessary in this vid)
It all comes down to mimicking the conditions that the infant is used to inside the womb, i.e. constricted, warm, loud, and at a weird angle.
Darkness was a game changer for us. We had all this bullshit light stuff meant to mimic the womb for the baby but when we went blackout he slept so much better.
I have done this with my newborn several times and it really works! if he’s wound up about something I’ll rock him like this and it helps him calm down even when I stop doing it.
It didn’t work on my baby either but also my hands weren’t really big enough to completely cover her arms and front of chest to achieve exactly the look in this video.
Look at all the sheeple above who are spouting nonsense about "CGI" (like that exists 🙄), when anyone with a functioning brain knows what is actually going on here. Holograms.
It is, but it’s so wonderful to watch them slowly figure it out day by day. They slowly go from “da fuck” to “fuck you” 😂 I’m currently living in that phase lol
The confined arms probably feels like the womb and the wobbling reminds them of floating in the amniotic sack. Its just putting them right back in their comfort zone.
Huh. I've always gotten that being born fucking sucks because it's suddenly cold and bright and loud and you get hungry now and you have to breath, but I never realized you also have to deal with gravity all of a sudden.
Like, baby doesn't even know what heavy is but baby is suddenly heavy. That's no fun.
human babies really need to gestate for about 12 months but the whole head/shoulders/birth canal deal makes for 9 months. babies really start functioning better 3months after birth. maybe in 2million years we'll have that figured out anatomically
I read somewhere that it's quite loud in the womb. The blood wooshing through the veins makes a racket. In fact, another technique for calming a baby is to woosh loudly near their ears.
Also helps with gas displacement. When my eldest was a baby, if you suddenly changed the angle she was laying after eating, she would instantly stop crying
It's very common for reality shows and scammers and infomercials to shoot something 100 times and then show you the three times that it worked.
Every time you saw it happen, it worked! 100%! Crazy!!
Whats the scam here? Is he selling that information? I just got it free and if I try it and it doesn't work I simply wont care. Perhaps I'll say "that guy was a dick" and that about as far as it will go.
We tried this with our baby a couple years ago. It works - kind of. She stopped crying and gave us her best wtf look, but the big problem is that your arms will get tired sooner than your baby stops wanting to cry, and as soon as you stop the bum shaking it's back to the waterworks.
Well…I didn’t see that comment, so I’m still going to imagine you trying this with a very confused large toddler lol maybe it works for adults too? Screaming Karen, try this one simple trick
Yep that’s the problem. It works, but only while you’re doing it. Which is nice when they’ve been purple crying for hours, but pretty disheartening when you feel your arms getting tired..
What if, each time you did this you played a certain song at the same time.
Eventually, the song might have the same effect as this trick, sparing your twiggy arms.
Some babies need a break from crying to calm down. It can provide that. If you have a kid who's colicky, gassy, just really upset, or God forbid, one of those kids who just cries and cries no matter what, it may not help that much.:/
It is tue same but not because it's weird lmao. It's because it reminds them of being carried by mom. He's mimicking the warm weightlessness of the womb.
This is how cave people carried cave babies while stealthily jogging away from sabertooth tigers, the cave babies born with the 'continue to cry in this position' gene all got eaten, and we are all the descendants of the cave babies with the 'be quiet in this position' gene
This is super interesting, but I'm giggling at the Tanzanian child named Kevin.
I looked up Tanzania and apparently the official languages are Swahili and English, so it's probably not unusual at all for a baby to be named Kevin there. Maybe I'm just giggling at a baby named Kevin...
Edit to add: Kevin is a freaking CUTIE, LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE.
Its that bouncing that makes them stop crying. I used to always do it with my kids. But I would just hold them with their belly towards my chest and my arm under them and you just rock side to side and bounce them a little bit while patting their butt lightly. They'll be asleep in 5 minutes or less every time.
Same principal as swaddling.
Babies don't really like having their arms and legs flailing all around, because they were used to being all scrunched up for the majority of their life. It's also worth remembering that human babies are born "early". What that means is that *most* of our body is still developing when we are born, and would prefer to stay inside, but our heads are so damn big that if we stayed in any longer it would put us in (more) danger during birth, so humans are born earlier than we should be in order to fit our ginormous heads properly on the way out. Edit: the point being that young babies are developmentally better suited to womb-like conditions (being warm and having your arms and legs scrunched up tight).
Swaddle young babies tightly and they'll be happy (caveat: *most* babies are *more* calm when swaddled; every baby is different, and some really are just very "colic"y for whatever reason, so while it's a good general strategy it might not work in every case, and I'm not suggesting that it 100% will work for every baby).
Yeah, the first couple of times my baby stopped crying with a WTF face. Then when she was used to it, she was like, fuck this shit, and kept crying. She is a sassy toddler now with a big attitude, love her!
For those wondering. I tried this with my baby and it worked the first few times and lost effect soon after. Pretty sure baby is simply stopping crying because they are now wondering why their dad is shaking their ass.
It basically works the same way that throwing ham at a toddler does.
football pose works great too and you can kinda support your arm better with that. just lay baby tummy down on your forearm with their head in your hand and their butt against your bicep!! my daughter loved it and the nurses/ped were impressed when my husband walked in with her like that lol
Wondering if this works on more than 80% of babies. Also wondering if this works more when he is doing. I can imagine a lot of it comes from either his controlled and confident handling or the babies perplexity of a stranger doing it.
Or it just works a few times due to the unfamiliarity of that pose?
Excuse my scepticism. But firstly this is internet, more specifically, reddit. And secondly it's hard to believe that such simple solution to a problem that literally the entire population ever faces at some point in life is not common knowledge.
Babies like to be swaddled, the arm thing reminds me of swaddling. I assume it, along with the wiggling, reminds them of the comfort and constriction of the womb.
Hey, he was our doctor (pediatrician), and he was great! He absolutely came in, picked up our crying baby and did this exact move and voila - calm and happy baby. He's a great pediatrician, and his daughter is as well.
Fuck. TEACH THIS TO EVERY PARENT ON THE PLANET. Because the sound of a crying baby is one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. I can't handle it. Same with a vacuum cleaner unless I'm using the vacuum.
It totally works if you do it right, calmly and confidently. But your arms can only do this for like 5 minutes. Placing baby over the lap in a similar fashion works sometimes, but babies are pretty good at figuring out if you are slacking and letting you know. They like you to be up on your feet. Exhausting!
What helped me was flipping my palms up and touching them together and then putting both elbows together. Essentially turning my arms into a bouncer. Then have the baby lie on it’s back with their head cradled in my hands. Up and down, up and down….little tiny dips and hops.
This is the equivalent of grabbing a cat by that zone behind the neck.
That or the babies are like Wtf is going on? Why this mf grabbing me as if he's gonna throw me like a grenade?
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My boss is a crying little baby, I’m gonna go try it on him. Update: I got promoted
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r/nbacirclejerk leaking
:)
Hol up
you bum
gorgeous
r/unexpectednbacirclejerk
Hell nah can’t do dis (workplace privacy violation)
Man if you offer him a bottle and a diaper change you'll be CEO
I need more practice, I just got fired for harassment regarding hand placement
Your Boss is defective. Remember it's not your fault. He's the problem.
Holy shit you got a genuine lol from me
Top tier humor mate.
Boy, I wish I had known that sooner
The biggest issue is, you need to keep rocking otherwise the baby will start crying again … but it’s a nice change to have a quiet baby for a few minutes.
When my 3 were tiny newborns like these - I would carry them like a football, but basically this - on their tummy laying on my forearm with their head in my hand and tucked against me - and they would sleep like this and it calmed them... but its the tucking of the arms thats important - just as in swaddling - it makes them feel secure
Shift sleeping with my wife. I would do this bounce around for hours and watch crappy anime. We survived.
thats how i carry my cat.
Yeah, I know parents hates that we compare our animals to their babies but sometimes when then tell me about their child I'm like "yeah, my cat does that too".
How much difference would the doc's butt wiggle have helped do you think? Annnnnnd, now I have the Huggins commercial with the German narrator in my head again. Smushy butt. Mushy, cushy tushy butt.
Build a robot (with heated body-temp arms) to hold your baby, and go do something in the meantime. Hopefully it doesn't start calling the robot "Mama".
Do not create the cloth mother, lest you become the wire mother
[sauce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow)
man, fuck that guy
Instructions unclear, fucked wire monkey.
There was a lot of fucked up psych experiments done early on. As awful as a lot of them were, we did learn a *lot* of valuable things from them.
[Careful](https://i.imgur.com/xQjo0lP.jpeg)
Fold the baby up in a warm blanket like a burrito. 🌯
Yah, like 40 years ago.
It's never too late to give it a try on your 40 year old kid.
*lifts my fully grown man body up, wraps my arms in one hand, wiggles my butt in the other* Me: "OMG dad, what are you doing! Put me down, Put me down!!"
*immediately stops crying*
24 for me!
Saw this 9 years ago. Tried it with our kid when he was born. Worked fine, but we also didn't have a very fussy baby. Pretty chill most of the time. Now? He saved up from not having his terrible two's and threes then, and is letting it all out.
There's a terrible tens?!
He's 8 now. Only gets worse. Really, he's fine. He has his moments, but overall he's a happy and well-adjusted kid. It was just a shock going from "he's almost perfect!" to "he's pretty much normal."
Wait until you hit the teen years. buckleup.gif
Terrible twos, threenagers and the fucking fours.
It doesn't work for colic though. The midwife thought she knew it all until meeting my firstborn. (Here we get home midwife visits for the first few months)
Or babies without colic who get used to it. Once they are familiar with being held this way and the novelty wears off, they keep screaming about whatever was bothering them in the first place.
This is bad news
My 4 month old has been giving us absolute fits. Ready for this stage to pass. Haha
> (Here we get home midwife visits for the first few months) Look at this guy in a fancy pants country that actually helps people, especially overwhelmed new parents. Well you know what America has Freedom! So take your stupid social programs that help people and make things better for everyone and shove them. This is America, we would rather vote to screw ourselves. Those yachts the billionaires have don't buy themselves you know. /s PS: Americans are fucking idiots. Source: I am American. Edit: Years ago I missed out on an opportunity to be a plant manager at an industrial facility in the Philippines. Had I got the job, one of the things I was planning on doing is creating some sort of support program for new mothers in particular, and new dads as well. The facility was eventually going to have an on site day care as well. It is amazing to me how Managers in America do not understand that people are better workers if they do not have to worry about child care/providing etc. A small investment in that will create later profits.
Managers understand it for the most part but they don't get the say. American managers job is to squeeze the most out of an employee to get accomplished what their boss wants done for the least amount of money. Nothing more.
I have 4 wks old, I will try this.
If you'd like a more in depth resource, [this is great](https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/baby/the-5-s-s-for-soothing-babies). What we're seeing here is the Five S's of baby soothing. 1. Swaddling 2. Side/Stomach position 3. Shushing 4. Swinging 5. Sucking (wasn't necessary in this vid) It all comes down to mimicking the conditions that the infant is used to inside the womb, i.e. constricted, warm, loud, and at a weird angle.
Darkness was a game changer for us. We had all this bullshit light stuff meant to mimic the womb for the baby but when we went blackout he slept so much better.
So, lots of Rammstein?
Nein
Report back!
I have done this with my newborn several times and it really works! if he’s wound up about something I’ll rock him like this and it helps him calm down even when I stop doing it.
If all else fails, try going outside. sometimes getting fresh air helped sooth my little one.
I tried this on my youngest last year. It didn't work and only pissed her more.
It didn’t work on my baby either but also my hands weren’t really big enough to completely cover her arms and front of chest to achieve exactly the look in this video.
I fucking actually did for once! This guy saved us soooo much headache.
Tried that shit on our first. Didn’t do shit. Will check on #2.
Tried, didn't work.
He just has his charisma stat maxed out, this is not going to work with base stats
When all the ladies went “aaaaa”
Also doesn't work against higher level creatures (adults)
Idk I'm pretty sure this would work on me.
r/dndirl
I am immensely disappointed that this is not a real sub 😤
r/DnD_IRL is the actual name of the sub. It's just kind of dead.
Indeed my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Roll 1xD20 for your level of disappointment
How about /r/outside? That one is fun.
And advantage (by medical degree).
100% staged - Baby is clearly in on it and has had a lengthy discussion with the doctor before using its own iPhone to record this…
Or it's filmed in reverse...with magnets.
You can clearly see a fishing line controlling the baby
He isn’t actually even holding a baby, it’s all CGI.
Look at all the sheeple above who are spouting nonsense about "CGI" (like that exists 🙄), when anyone with a functioning brain knows what is actually going on here. Holograms.
Terrance Howard has entered the chat.
Everyone knows holograms are just mirrors with extra steps
Baby is actually a grown adult with some illness
Can't believe people keep falling for these clickbait videos. smh
paid baby
Baby be like: "You got me by the nethers... Imma hush."
Can't throw hands and someone's got you by the family jewels, even babies know when to back down lol
God that's hilarious
Yeah. The baby just looks confused like "da fuck?"
I have a newborn baby right now. His default face for the first month of life was "da fuck?". I think it's all just a lot to take in.
It is, but it’s so wonderful to watch them slowly figure it out day by day. They slowly go from “da fuck” to “fuck you” 😂 I’m currently living in that phase lol
Lol we are a ways away. Both looking forward to and scared of the toddler years.
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All of them are looking confused lol that's the funniest part to me.
They are just as shocked that it worked as everyone else is.
I duno why this made me laugh so much but, it did
Ah yes the baby appraiser...
"Lotta wear on this baby. Looks like you altered the original foreskin. Best I can do on this baby is Tree Fitty"
God damn it, Loch Ness Monster!
Always good to see a Jaboodydubs fan in the wild lol
You ever take a dump in a mug???
The confined arms probably feels like the womb and the wobbling reminds them of floating in the amniotic sack. Its just putting them right back in their comfort zone.
Huh. I've always gotten that being born fucking sucks because it's suddenly cold and bright and loud and you get hungry now and you have to breath, but I never realized you also have to deal with gravity all of a sudden. Like, baby doesn't even know what heavy is but baby is suddenly heavy. That's no fun.
“Baby is suddenly heavy” is how I’m gonna start describing depressive phases to my therapist.
This made me chortle. Thank you kind stranger.
It's funny as it's a phrase I have used myself with my dietician...
I’m baby
Wow I never really thought about it that way before. It sounds awful.
human babies really need to gestate for about 12 months but the whole head/shoulders/birth canal deal makes for 9 months. babies really start functioning better 3months after birth. maybe in 2million years we'll have that figured out anatomically
Diary of a Wimpy Kid taught me this
Yeah you're right. Maybe we should have just stayed inside there instead. For our own good.
I read somewhere that it's quite loud in the womb. The blood wooshing through the veins makes a racket. In fact, another technique for calming a baby is to woosh loudly near their ears.
And you only get heavier, until you finally accept it and start moving on with life. Then it starts reversing.
Also helps with reflux/ga pain too, I believe.
Also helps with gas displacement. When my eldest was a baby, if you suddenly changed the angle she was laying after eating, she would instantly stop crying
Ok can you do me next, only 160 lbs
only 72 kgs!? yeah i can do that, come here big boy!!
or 16 sacks of potatoes.
The fact that we got the three times the charm experience. i totally believe him now.
It's very common for reality shows and scammers and infomercials to shoot something 100 times and then show you the three times that it worked. Every time you saw it happen, it worked! 100%! Crazy!!
Whats the scam here? Is he selling that information? I just got it free and if I try it and it doesn't work I simply wont care. Perhaps I'll say "that guy was a dick" and that about as far as it will go.
It does work, though. Saw this material before we had our first kid. Used it with both of our babies, and it works.
I can confirm this works. Source: I used to be a baby
I feel like as a 44 year old man, if a doctor picked me up while I was crying in the exact same way, I'd probably take pause too. lol
Got to be a quite strong doctor
We tried this with our baby a couple years ago. It works - kind of. She stopped crying and gave us her best wtf look, but the big problem is that your arms will get tired sooner than your baby stops wanting to cry, and as soon as you stop the bum shaking it's back to the waterworks.
We tried too and yeah, our baby gave us such a wtf face that we could not stop laughing and we couldn't continubut yeah, on principle it works.
We need a baby holding ass wobbler machine
Time to workout those arms!
She's my 30 lb kettlebell now.
I’m not sure this trick is meant for a 30 lb toddler lol
I did say we used this trick a couple years ago, she was only like 9 lbs at the time.
Well…I didn’t see that comment, so I’m still going to imagine you trying this with a very confused large toddler lol maybe it works for adults too? Screaming Karen, try this one simple trick
My arms definitely leveled up the first three years of my kids' life.
Yep that’s the problem. It works, but only while you’re doing it. Which is nice when they’ve been purple crying for hours, but pretty disheartening when you feel your arms getting tired..
They're crying because you've clearly skipped arm day
Time to LIFT
What if, each time you did this you played a certain song at the same time. Eventually, the song might have the same effect as this trick, sparing your twiggy arms.
Some babies need a break from crying to calm down. It can provide that. If you have a kid who's colicky, gassy, just really upset, or God forbid, one of those kids who just cries and cries no matter what, it may not help that much.:/
It's nice while you prepare a bottle though.
I’ve done this with many babies, works almost every time!!!
Do you have a tree on your backyard that grows babies?
Haha am an older sister and was a babysitter for years
Looks about equivalent to when you hold a cat by the scruff of the neck. That shit's such a weird position they don't know wtf to do
It is tue same but not because it's weird lmao. It's because it reminds them of being carried by mom. He's mimicking the warm weightlessness of the womb.
Exactly. Its basically triggering a response from the baby (or cat lol) from what the body remembers was safe.
It looked to me like close to the position they are while in the womb. Crossing the hands across the chest looks very similar.
This is how cave people carried cave babies while stealthily jogging away from sabertooth tigers, the cave babies born with the 'continue to cry in this position' gene all got eaten, and we are all the descendants of the cave babies with the 'be quiet in this position' gene
That actually sounds like a pretty good theory. I like it better than the womb stuff everyone keeps repeating here
Anddd bar bouncers 😂
This is super interesting, but I'm giggling at the Tanzanian child named Kevin. I looked up Tanzania and apparently the official languages are Swahili and English, so it's probably not unusual at all for a baby to be named Kevin there. Maybe I'm just giggling at a baby named Kevin... Edit to add: Kevin is a freaking CUTIE, LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE.
No lie that caught me by surprise more than anything 😂
Bro Kevin legit has the face of a grown MAN
Kevin pays TAXES.
He’s crying because they’re SO DAMN HIGH.
Its that bouncing that makes them stop crying. I used to always do it with my kids. But I would just hold them with their belly towards my chest and my arm under them and you just rock side to side and bounce them a little bit while patting their butt lightly. They'll be asleep in 5 minutes or less every time.
Same principal as swaddling. Babies don't really like having their arms and legs flailing all around, because they were used to being all scrunched up for the majority of their life. It's also worth remembering that human babies are born "early". What that means is that *most* of our body is still developing when we are born, and would prefer to stay inside, but our heads are so damn big that if we stayed in any longer it would put us in (more) danger during birth, so humans are born earlier than we should be in order to fit our ginormous heads properly on the way out. Edit: the point being that young babies are developmentally better suited to womb-like conditions (being warm and having your arms and legs scrunched up tight). Swaddle young babies tightly and they'll be happy (caveat: *most* babies are *more* calm when swaddled; every baby is different, and some really are just very "colic"y for whatever reason, so while it's a good general strategy it might not work in every case, and I'm not suggesting that it 100% will work for every baby).
I’m gonna try this on my niece.
Get a lawyer first.
did it work
I need to try this with my baby. Also, need to stop calling my gf 'baby'...
I wish I knew this 12 years ago in the middle of the night 😅
I don't know why I tried that with my cousin's baby. Now he's making a ruckus and bringing the whole house down with him.
Yeah, the first couple of times my baby stopped crying with a WTF face. Then when she was used to it, she was like, fuck this shit, and kept crying. She is a sassy toddler now with a big attitude, love her!
This my kids pediatrician in Santa Monica!
Literally
The babies are paid actors 😃
What a lovely human being this guy is!
Literally knows?
For those wondering. I tried this with my baby and it worked the first few times and lost effect soon after. Pretty sure baby is simply stopping crying because they are now wondering why their dad is shaking their ass. It basically works the same way that throwing ham at a toddler does.
Squish that cat!
My wife is literally about to pop so I’m glad I watch this
football pose works great too and you can kinda support your arm better with that. just lay baby tummy down on your forearm with their head in your hand and their butt against your bicep!! my daughter loved it and the nurses/ped were impressed when my husband walked in with her like that lol
He’s like: This is weird!
Does he takes 25 year old babies?
For toddlers, I learned that if you give them water/drink while they’re crying they usually stop because they can’t drink and cry at the same time
I am literally tired of people saying 'literally'.
How did I raise 3 kids without knowing this!?
Wondering if this works on more than 80% of babies. Also wondering if this works more when he is doing. I can imagine a lot of it comes from either his controlled and confident handling or the babies perplexity of a stranger doing it. Or it just works a few times due to the unfamiliarity of that pose? Excuse my scepticism. But firstly this is internet, more specifically, reddit. And secondly it's hard to believe that such simple solution to a problem that literally the entire population ever faces at some point in life is not common knowledge.
Babies like to be swaddled, the arm thing reminds me of swaddling. I assume it, along with the wiggling, reminds them of the comfort and constriction of the womb.
Hey, he was our doctor (pediatrician), and he was great! He absolutely came in, picked up our crying baby and did this exact move and voila - calm and happy baby. He's a great pediatrician, and his daughter is as well.
Fuck. TEACH THIS TO EVERY PARENT ON THE PLANET. Because the sound of a crying baby is one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. I can't handle it. Same with a vacuum cleaner unless I'm using the vacuum.
I am a doc and I have used this when working on the neonatal unit. It’s like a wonderful party trick 👌🏾👌🏾
Most doctors: Don't shake the baby! This doctor: Gently shake the baby
Finally after 425 takes
Hahhaha
This doctor literally rocks headaches to sleep
Incoming Nobel price for ~~medicine~~ peace :)
Oh that really having the kind heart , and patient
He glitched the baby
Why?
Swaddle (wrap arms tight around body), keep upright, "jiggle" or bounce the baby. Shhhhhs or white noise help too.
When he starts stirring lmfao
Or throw a slice of cheese on it's head.
What sorcery is this?
this is the “squish that cat” guy but for babies
Why would you even use the word, "literally"?
It totally works if you do it right, calmly and confidently. But your arms can only do this for like 5 minutes. Placing baby over the lap in a similar fashion works sometimes, but babies are pretty good at figuring out if you are slacking and letting you know. They like you to be up on your feet. Exhausting!
When the doctor bends me over and grabs my nuts I stop crying about my day and stay awkwardly silent too.
What helped me was flipping my palms up and touching them together and then putting both elbows together. Essentially turning my arms into a bouncer. Then have the baby lie on it’s back with their head cradled in my hands. Up and down, up and down….little tiny dips and hops.
Bro is choking that kid out
I always love when this clip goes around again. That’s my kid’s pediatrician haha
This is the equivalent of grabbing a cat by that zone behind the neck. That or the babies are like Wtf is going on? Why this mf grabbing me as if he's gonna throw me like a grenade?