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And even though similar calming effects were observed under the other three conditions, nothing compared to the level of calm babies underwent while being held and walked. In fact, every single baby stopped crying, and almost half of them fell asleep.
So, the team now believes that parents should hold and walk with their crying babies for about five minutes before sitting and holding their babies for another five to eight minutes. Finally, after that period, the infant can be put to bed.
Kudora, a mother herself, described her shock with these results. However, she underscored how research like this study is instrumental in improving parenting knowledge beyond shared techniques.
“For many, we intuitively parent and listen to other people’s advice on parenting without testing the methods with rigorous science. But we need science to understand a baby’s behaviors because they are much more complex and diverse than we thought,” Kudora said.
Still, the researchers hope to assess this strategy’s long-term effects since the study was only able to ascertain its effectiveness as an immediate solution for infant crying as opposed to other approaches, such as letting babies cry until they fall back to sleep.
To read the study’s complete findings, which have since been published in Current Biology, visit the link here.
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