Coping with Crying and Colic: An Easy-to-follow Guide

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Babies who cry often or excessively can create stress for parents by preventing sleep or causing concern over what the cries may mean. This comprehensive guide offers parents practical and reassuring advice on why their babies cry and how to respond to and reduce their outbursts. Hints are also provided on learning to interpret certain cries, as are key remedies that will soothe and relax a child. The exact nature of colic is also outlined, as are common misconceptions about colic and the top methods to ease its effects.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 5)
• Chapter 1 Crying: What you need to know (p. 7)
• Chapter 2 Why Your Young Baby Cries: Getting to know him (p. 13)
• Chapter 3 How to Comfort Your Young Baby: Practical techniques (p. 23)
• Chapter 4 Babies with Colic: What you can do (p. 35)
• Chapter 5 Your Older Baby: Why he cries (p. 43)
• Chapter 6 How to Soothe Your Older Baby: Practical techniques (p. 51)
• Conclusion (p. 59)
• Useful organisations (p. 60)
• Index (p. 62)

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Library Journal Review

Even if you have a good selection of books on crying, journalist Mulholland's is worth considering despite the British slant. Her advice is appropriate and up-to-date and will be especially helpful to first-time parents. HerÅcoverage encompasses the average hours a newborn cries daily, at what ages crying peaks and ebbs, what amount of crying to expect during the first few months, and the gentle reassurance that sometimes babies cry, and there is little we can do to soothe them. Mulholland's sleep title provides a good analysis of how REM/non-REM sleep differs between babies and adults and how that translates to sleep cycles and why babies awaken. There are good visuals in the form of graphs, showing sleep averages for day and night time hours, broken down by three, six, nine, and 12 months. She presents a summary of the most popular sleep-training methods and includes tips for establishing a routine. It endorses some form of sleep training by six months, offering excellent pros and cons of the most popular ones. These are beautifully produced imports from the UK, with color photos, sidebars, and lots of well-used white space; the text is gentle and concise. Sleep-deprived parents will appreciate the brevity ofÅwhat I like to callÅnap-time consumables.-Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.