It had been a long long day at work after being up all night with our new born. My wife rang me up and asked me to come home from work as our son was crying again and had been for the last few hours. He was only 2 weeks old and my better half was still exhausted from the birthing process.
But how am I able to help?
I was not sure what to do? We called in a breastfeeding specialist and she revealed that he was getting masses of milk as we were worried about his intake. She left us an entire heap of reading material on a selection of subjects. It was about eleven o’clock at night and it had been 10 hours of solid crying and no real relief. I was flicking through the material we were given earlier and found a paper clipping about a Doctor called Harvey Karp and his remedies for colic.
Silence is Golden
the manuscript went on to detail about Dr Karp’s work and his remedy for colic. After literally mins of applying his strategy my child was asleep in my arms. It blew me away how speedily this worked. For the following three months we used this method and still use it today with friends kids. There had been still times where I’d carry my boy around the house for hours so he could sleep. It got so far better than listening to him screaming.
The Happiest Baby on the Block
I had ordered all of Dr Karp’s products that were available at the time. They are actually called The happiest Baby On The Block. I reviewed and referred back to them continually till I accepted the fine details of his techniques. It is too much information to put in one post, so here are the basic points he covers in his literature :
The 5 S’s : straightforward steps that trigger the calming reflex ( swaddling, side / stomach position, shushing, swinging and sucking ) The calming reflex only works if you can do it the correct way
The Missing fourth tri-mester : tough to comprehend, though it may appear babies are born a quarter too shortly.
The relaxing reflex : the easiest way to reset that automatic switch that may stop an infant’s crying to lift a child’s sleep in the first months of life.
The cuddle Cure : the way in which the five S’s can soothe even the most colicky infants
Colic Education
Dr Karp also covers off other subjects and questions that most frequently arise with his remedies for colic education. Many have benefited and testify to his ideas, information and delivering of a quality product. Some online reviews have revealed that the data can be a little too incessant in the book but they loved the DVD. Also the systems used are best for a baby aged 0-6 months. So if your baby is a little bit older keep your eye out for reviews on my site of other products to help soothe your baby.
What Next?
For me I found great information in Dr Karp’s literature and simple to access data with the concomitant DVD. Click here to check out his website and find out more about remedies for colic with Dr Harvey Karp and The Happiest Baby on the Block.