How To Comfort Your Baby When It Cries

How can I comfort my baby when it cries?

It's very important to be able to comfort your baby as much as possible. Sometimes the reason for crying is quite obvious. If your baby's hungry, you feed them. If they need a nappy change and they're uncomfortable, you do that. But very often the reason is not obvious, and parents then get very stressed wondering how to comfort their baby. There are lots of things, everybody will just know by instinct and through the generations that babies find comforting, sucking being absolutely the first one. Anything that they can suck is really helpful. Any kind of rocking and movements, whether it's in your arms just rocking the baby or in a pram, rocking as you go along in a car ride. Any rocking movements, babies find very comforting. Any sounds and music, and it can be you singing, it can be playing a tape of womb music or just your favorite CD. Babies like all kinds of music.