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Alfre said that when she was growing up she learned an
easy way to calm babies, which the women in her family
had passed down from generation to generation. It was
called the “Big Mama” technique.
The way it worked was to sit down with a pillow on
your lap and place the screaming baby stomach-down on
top of it. Then you start bouncing the heels of your feet up
and down (hard), patting the baby on the bottom (hard),
and singing a lullaby right in the baby’s ear.
Once the sun went down, two-month-old Ruby began

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her nightly twist-and-fuss routine. Her parents, Steve and
Sarah, worried she was suffering from stomach pain, until
they discovered that Ruby would promptly fall asleep if
they placed her over their shoulder with her stomach
pressing firmly against them as they marched around the
backyard, jiggling her body with every step.
Baby Michael’s father was the family pro at soothing
Michael’s screaming. He would sit in the rocker with a
pillow on his lap, lay Michael belly-down on top of the
pillow, and rock him hard and fast. Within five minutes
Michael was always out in lullaby-land.

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Main Points:
Shhhh triggers your baby’s calming reflex
The whooshing sound your baby heard in your uterus was as
loud as a vacuum cleaner
Shhhhing only soothes screaming babies if it is loud
Ten machines you can use to make a soothing white noise
My young husband walked our crying baby up and down,