JAKARTA - A study says that holding a baby on foot for about five minutes is the best way to relieve and calm a crying baby. The strategy of calming a crying baby based on evidence refers to experiments conducted in Japan and Italy, which were analyzed and published in the journal Current Biology, reported ANTARA, Friday, September 16.

The paper's writing team says they hope the findings can be useful for parents who are stressed in dealing with infants, especially for the inexperienced.

"I have raised four children. But I can't even estimate the main results of this study until statistical data appears," said senior author Kumientda of the RIEN Center for Brain Science in Japan.

Previously, the research team had studied the responses that appeared in mammals such as rats, dogs, and monkeys. When these animals carry their babies and start walking, the baby becomes quiet and calm, and the heart rate slows down.

padda and colleagues want to explore this further in humans and compare the effect with calming behavior of other babies such as shaking the baby in one place. They recruited 21 mother and baby couples aged 0-7 months to test in four conditions, namely being carried while moving, holding still while the mother was sitting, laid on a quiet bed, or laid on a shake bed.

The intensity of crying decreases and the heartbeat slows down in 30 seconds when the baby is carried by the mother while moving. The same effect appears when the baby in bed is shaking, but it's not the same when the baby is simply held motionless. This indicates that, contrary to assumptions, the mother's hug is not enough to calm the baby and the response to movement is an important factor.

Next, the team saw the impact of holding the baby for five minutes. They found that the activity put 46 percent of babies to sleep and 18 percent fell asleep in the next minute. But when the baby was put to sleep, more than a third was half awake within 20 seconds.

The results of the electrocardiogram reading show the baby's heart rate increases once they are separated from their mother's body. However, when babies fall asleep longer before being laid down, they tend not to wake up.ā–mencobada says this discovery is surprising because she has assumed other factors such as the way babies are placed in bed or the influence of a baby's posture that can play a role, but this doesn't happen.

Our enthusiasm is very limited, that's why we need knowledge, he said. Based onosada's research and the team, they recommend ways to calm and encourage babies to sleep.

Mothers are advised to carry while walking for five minutes, then sit and hold the baby for five to eight minutes, before finally putting the baby to sleep. This method provides more comfort for the baby than other methods such as letting the baby cry to sleep. However, further research is needed to understand whether holding a walk can train the baby to sleep for a longer time.


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