Colic
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Music Therapy for Infants and Toddlers: What Parents Should Know
Streaming Mozart for a sleeping newborn is not music therapy. Singing your child's favourite lullaby at bedtime is not music therapy either, even thou...
Colic and Music: What Actually Works When Nothing Else Does
A colicky baby in a desperate evening has a particular sound. Parents who have lived through it can identify it on a recording. The crying is rhythmic...
Tummy Troubles: How to Help Your Baby
The first three months with a baby contain a lot of unexplained crying, and most of it is rooted somewhere in the gut. Wind, reflux, colic, evening fu...
First Sounds: Newborn Crying
Crying is the only language a newborn has. Most parents arrive home expecting to crack the code within a week and feel quietly inadequate when they're...
Gas in Newborns: What Helps Most
Gas is one of the most common newborn complaints, and one of the most solvable. Unlike colic — which has many causes — gas-related discomfort often ha...
Why an Infant May Appear Fussy
'Fussy' is an imprecise word that covers a wide range of infant behaviours, from difficult-to-soothe general distress to specific patterns of inconsol...
Why Newborns Respond to Stress Through Crying
A newborn's cry is one of the most biologically gripping sounds humans can hear — engineered by evolution to be nearly impossible to tune out. Once yo...
How Much Do Newborns Cry? Understanding the Normal Range
Almost every new parent has the same shock around 6 to 8 weeks: the baby cries far more than they were warned about, often inconsolably, often in the...
Switching Baby Formula: When It Might Help and How to Do It
At 6 weeks your baby is squirming, gassy, and crying through the evening, and the easiest lever to pull is the formula tin. The shelf is lined with br...