Video transcript
Narrator: There are many techniques for settling your baby. Listening to other parents’ advice can be helpful but remember that every baby is different and what works for someone else, may not work for you.
Patrick and Thurl (parents of newborn William)
Thurl: William is 6 weeks old. When he first came out of hospital we had no idea what we were doing, and what would work with him, what would not work with him, and I guess to a certain extent we still don’t really know if what we are doing is right or what we are doing is wrong, but um, we are at least now learning what works with him and what doesn’t work with him so to try and settle him, you know talking and going shhh shhh shhh.
Patrick: Perfect!
Thurl: Seems to work.
Jana (mother of newborn Cornelius): Cornelius has only really started to respond to our settling techniques in the past week, being 6 weeks old. He has a lot of wind so he loves being put on his tummy initially and rub his back and as soon as he stops crying flip him over. And then patting his head and just rubbing his tummy as well, really seem to settle him down. We find as soon as he stops crying to stop doing anything and leave him to settle himself.
Patrick: There’s no one thing, you just keep trying different things. And you think you’ve got him worked out one minute... and then it doesn’t work and you’ve gotta try something new.
Tesha and Paul (parents of newborn Mila)
Paul: I used to just kind of walk around in circles, it’s got a bit of a rhythm to it, we’ve got a little water feature out in our back yard, a little fountain and the noise of that seems to work quite well but then again it won’t work every time. We’ve got a CD by the Cure that she really likes, so we’ll umm, we’ll play that, and that can kind of work.
Tesha: Rocking, patting, a lot of singing, making up songs with her name...
Paul: And sometimes it’s a bath, maybe a bath will kind of, will work.
Tesha: Taking her outside into a park. Also realising that sometimes when she hasn’t settled after a period of time, to possibly leave it alone for a while, like get the stress levels down.
Paul: She keeps on building up and she can get louder and louder and you kind of, the things you are doing are not working, I think it’s just not to panic, something eventually will work, she’ll eventually stop crying.
Tesha: Hey Sweetheart.