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• Dunstan Baby Language - Interpreting your baby's cries
• The 5 S's - Easing Vaccine Pain
• The 5 S's - The key to calming your baby's crying
• The Happiest Baby on the Block - Book Review

The 5 S's: Easing Vaccine Pain

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Guess what. Remember those 5 S's I recently mentioned from The Happiest Baby on the Block?

Well, recently a study was published in the journal Pediatrics that showed that doing the 5 S's shortly after a young baby received her vaccinations helped her calm down much

The 5 S's - The key to calming your baby's crying

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OK. Time to talk about the 5 S's.

These are the awesome techniques that Harvy Karp talks about in his book, The Happiest Baby on the Block (click on that link to see my review). They simulate the sounds and feelings of the womb which turns on what Karp calls the calming reflex. They can send a baby from crying to content in a matter of seconds. A dream for parents of a fussy or colicky baby. They have even shown to help ease vaccine pain.

Dunstan Baby Language - Interpreting your baby's cries

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The Dunstan Baby Language DVD teaches you how to understand what your newborn is saying (or yelling :) by interpreting his cries. It goes over 5 kinds of cries, what they mean and what you can do to help your baby.

Believe it or not, but I've tried this with multiple babies and it really works! Generally it is only useful for babies under 3 months of age as a baby's cry often changes after this time. But, as the Baby Whisperer also mentions, if you respond to a

The Happiest Baby on the Block (Karp) - Book Review

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Harvey Karp's, The Happiest Baby on the Block, is a miracle book for those with fussy babies, especially colicky ones. It teaches you about the calming reflex (the key to making a baby go from crying to calm) and how to turn it on. I don't exaclty agree with all his beliefs concerning newborns, but that doesn't change the effectiveness of his methods.

The key to turning this calming reflex on is the