Calming a Fussy Baby

This video helps parents and caregivers create the best possible environment in which to maximize a baby’s learning potential. Topics include gross motor development, reading a baby’s cues, tummy time, language development, crawling, communication, calming an infant, establishing routines, feeding, encouraging play, and dressing.

Video Duration: 61 min

Parents learn a step-by-step plan on how to integrate their babies into the family while ensuring they are resting as well. The first six weeks of a newborn’s life can be stressful to navigate and adjust to, which is why knowing how to and establishing a schedule is essential to balancing parenting a fussy baby

The book offers practical, age-appropriate toddler discipline strategies for managing the everyday challenges of toddlerhood and guiding your child to becoming their best self.

This article includes a variety of questions to serve as a checklist for why babies may be fussy. Over time, it becomes easier to recognize your baby’s different cries and how to act accordingly. It’s common for babies to be fussy because they are hungry, have a dirty diaper, need to pass gas, or need comfort. This article is helpful with providing tips on how to recognize signs to help calm and soothe your baby.

This service offers free phone consultation and fee-based in-home consultations to help families struggling with their infant’s crying, sleeping, or feeding. Services available from the network include parent groups, a “warmline,” and an infant specialist who will work with parents to find effective ways to care for their baby. All services are available in English and Spanish.

This website from the Nemours Foundation explains why children have temper tantrums and how to avoid them.

Dr. Kluto shares the 5 S’s that are useful for soothing a fussy baby, while demonstrating how to perform these techniques correctly. He also lists a baby’s basic needs to check for that are often the reason for a crying baby. Parents will learn how to approach their fussy baby with loving and caring energy to calm them down.

Harvey Karp, MD, pediatrician, and author of “Happiest Baby on the Block” offers soothing techniques to help calm wailing and fussy babies. He demonstrates for parents the 5 S’s, which include swaddling, side/stomach position, shushing, swinging, and sucking. By demonstrating and explaining each of these steps, parents are able to correctly and comfortably soothe their baby and get them to sleep.

This video presents a recording with Dr. Abby Peterson, a pediatrician, as she talks about fussy babies and newborn crying. It can be very stressful for families as they try to calm their baby down, and Dr. Abby Peterson offers helpful guidance such as encouraging support from family and friends and soothing techniques to try such as singing, white noise, and rocking back and forth.

This blog featuring Kristin Garton Crichton, a child abuse pediatrician, provides helpful information on why babies cry, especially during the first six months of life and how to meet their needs. Some helpful methods include trying pacifiers, using white noise, and soothing your baby through touch. There are many ideas to calm a baby, but also for the parents to care for themselves at the same time.

You’re out in public with your toddler or preschooler when the whining starts. Don’t panic! When you take a calm, problem-solving approach, you help your child learn to calm himself when he is irritable.

There’s no sure cure for young children’s public temper tantrums. But some simple steps can reduce the chances that your toddler or preschooler will “pitch a fit” when you run errands together.

This website lists several tips to try for parents and caregivers to calm down a fussy baby. There are many factors addressed that could contribute to a fussy baby such as positioning, sound, feeding schedules, and naptimes. There are also extra links to other resources and information related to response to cries, protecting a baby’s head, ensuring the baby has a safe sleeping environment, and more

This PDF offers tips to calm your fussy baby, with explanations as to why these techniques are calming. This resource also provides a checklist to make sure your baby is comfortable and eliminate potential reasons behind their crying.

This website from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health provides information to understand temper tantrums and what parents can do when children exhibit this behavior.

This pamphlet provides information about temper tantrums and questions for caregivers to create a “plan of action” for the child.

For parents and teachers on how to manage temper tantrums, prevent them from happening, and what to do after they occur.

Information about why temper tantrums occur and how parents should react to them.

This website from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides tips on how caregivers can handle temper tantrums.