The best way to get a crying baby back to sleep? Researchers say they've figured it out

A crying baby that won't go to sleep, or an infant who wakes up in the middle of the night and won't let anyone go back to bed have been dealt with by nearly every new born parent.

People have a lot of remedies and tricks to get a baby to sleep. The best way to get a newborn back in their crib is to move around.

According to the findings, the best way to hold a baby is to walk with them for five minutes. Researchers say to sit and hold the baby for five to eight minutes before putting them to sleep. The walking-to-sit method worked during the day.

The researchers compared the reactions of 21 infants to four scenarios: being held by walking mothers, held by sitting mothers, lying in a crib and lying in a rocking motion.

Within 30 seconds of the mother walking and carrying the babies calmed down. Half of the babies fell asleep during this exercise. When they were lying down, their heart rates slowed down.

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One-third of babies became alert within 20 seconds when mothers tried to put their baby back to bed. Babies have their heart rates go up when they are not carried while walking.

Babies are more likely to stay asleep when they are sleeping for longer periods.

I was surprised to see the result. Dr. Kumi Kuroda, a researcher at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan, said in a statement that she thought baby woke up during a laydown because of how they were put on the bed. Our experiment didn't support these assumptions.

Babies feel calm when their mothers carry them, something that Kuroda and her team have found before.

It isn't the only way to get a baby to sleep, and it may not work for everyone. Parents can put their babies to bed if they are sleepy, but not if they wake up. Multiple ways to get babies back to bed are suggested by birth and baby.

The researchers wanted to provide an immediate solution for parents of infants who cry excessively and exhibit sleep difficulties. There is more research that needs to be done to determine if this method can improve sleep.

"Like science-based fitness training, we can do science-based parenting with these advances, and hopefully help babies to sleep and reduce parental stress caused by excessive infant crying." Science is needed to understand a baby's behaviors because they are more complex and diverse than we thought.

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