Katie and I finally watched "The Happiest Baby On The Block" DVD last night. It was recommended by the nurse who taught our "baby" class and a lactation consultant. The St. Louis Public Libraries did not have the DVD in their system, but Katie's mother was able to obtain it for us through her library network. After Katie's mom watched it and gave us a glowing report, we were eager to find out how to have the happiest baby in this sector of the universe. I'm sure baby Wookies are pretty happy as they live in the lush wroshyr forests of the beautiful planet Kashyyyk. It has been a long time since I have played any Star Wars Battlefront games.
Ever since our little Wookie was born (she has a lot of hair, c'mon!), we were convinced that she was one of those few babies who refused to be completely swaddled. While we were in the hospital and adjusting to the first few weeks at home, she would scream and wiggle until her arms were free or we released our little bird from her cage. I'm sure she will use that analogy in a decade. Well, we stopped swaddling her completely. Sophia has been somewhat cantankerous lately, constantly fidjeting, waking herself up repeatedly during the night, and waking up whenever we would put her down. We were hoping our movie would remedy the situation.
As we watched the DVD last night, we realized we had given up on swaddling too soon and learned a number of new techniques to pacify and relax our little girl. After our movie time, we tried the techniques mentioned in the DVD and Sophia was soothed immediately. We swaddled her tight and followed the rest of the "program." We were amazed and still are. The developer of this approach and his methods are truly genius. If you have a baby and have not seen this, rent it, now. You, yes you, dear reader, rent it. Unless you are the baby whisperer already.
Good science demands replication of experiments. Last night's experiments confirmed our initial hypotheses and we are anxiously awaiting the collecting of data tonight. The pictures below depict little Sophia Grace sound asleep, comfortably and tightly swaddled. I swaddled her, positioned her at her preferred side angle, swung her for a few minutes, and she was out! Using the methods introduced by the DVD, we can soothe the wildest screams and squirms in minutes.
We already knew some of the information and had developed or stumbled upon our own techniques, but the DVD was immensely helpful.
Swaddle-Side/Stomach Position-Shush-Swing-Suck=Boojah!
What a cute little girl!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Happiest Baby On The Block
Posted by Matt, Katie, and Sophia! at 7:02 PM
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oh, the miracle blanket. truly IS a miracle. use as LONG as possible! (zach busted out all 4 limbs 4 nights in a row at 3 months...but i have had friends use it for 5 months! USE IT!)
:)
The program or approach is really good for infants-so i bought the toddler version of the book and i think the guy lost it on that one. He says to break through to your toddler-you have to talk like them. So, when Ellie would get mad, we were supposed to say "Grrr! Mad! Mad! Mad!" and stomp around the house. I felt too silly, especially at the grocery store, so we had to abandon the whole theory :)
erin
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that you used the word "hypotheses" in this blog posting. =)
We read the book "Happiest Baby..." and also had great results with Noah.
Sophia is super cute!
So precious!!
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Yay! So glad you watched it and things are going well. We swaddled Marlie up until she was 5 or 6 mos! It makes such a difference.
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