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any happiest baby on the block mamas?

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ive read HBOTB and watched the dvd, and the dvd was awesome! it was great to visualize exactly how to do the "5 S's". my only issue is that im intimidated by the "swinging"!

the jiggly head scares me and im scared im going to hurt my baby! i watched how great it worked on the dvd and everything logically makes sense but i cant snap out of it! any words of encouragement? anyone else have these same anxieties and everything turned out ok? thanks for any input ladies!

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  • watermellenswatermellens member

    Yes, you're not actually jiggling the baby's head, you're just swinging their whole body so their head is not really moving on its own.

    Our little guy loved the shhhhh and the swaying.


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    She loves swinging and shhhhhh. It's the only thing that calms her down.
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  • g8trkimg8trkim member
    We used this with DS and it worked really well. I kind of forgot about it but we find ourselved naturally doing the S's with DD too. Don't worry about the head. It's more of a whole body movement so the baby's head is not jiggling, at least not much.




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  • g8trkimg8trkim member

    imagekiraliz2:
    Dr. Karp literally calls it the jello head jiggle...not sure why everyone is saying there's no jiggling of the head. 

    Yeah, I guess I'm thinking it's not a drastic shake to where the baby could get injured.





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    imagekiraliz2:
    Dr. Karp literally calls it the jello head jiggle...not sure why everyone is saying there's no jiggling of the head. 

    this is what im thinking reading the responses and now im a bit more confused?

    someone just tell me i wont give me baby shaken baby syndrome by jello head jiggling my baby! hahaha. 

    thanks for all the reassurance ladies! ive been a pregnant woman nutcase overthinking it even though i CLEARLY saw dr karp doing it to tons of babies with, like, 100% success.

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    imagekiraliz2:
    imageegb+jaf:

    imagekiraliz2:
    Dr. Karp literally calls it the jello head jiggle...not sure why everyone is saying there's no jiggling of the head. 

    this is what im thinking reading the responses and now im a bit more confused?

    someone just tell me i wont give me baby shaken baby syndrome by jello head jiggling my baby! hahaha. 

    thanks for all the reassurance ladies! ive been a pregnant woman nutcase overthinking it even though i CLEARLY saw dr karp doing it to tons of babies with, like, 100% success.

    I didn't notice you were still pregnant. Once your baby is here and you can't get he/she to stop screaming, you'll probably be a bit more brave.

    Also, you won't give your baby shaken baby syndrome!  :) 

     ahh, thank you! this is pretty much what i was thinking but my brain works in weird ways in this home strech of pregnancy. it didnt help that even though im convinced that dr karp is a GENIUS, he does seem just a little odd in the dvd :]

    gotta give him credit though, he's got me so convinced it all works i plan on busting those S's out before we even leave the hospital

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    imageegb+jaf:
    imagekiraliz2:
    imageegb+jaf:

    imagekiraliz2:
    Dr. Karp literally calls it the jello head jiggle...not sure why everyone is saying there's no jiggling of the head. 

    this is what im thinking reading the responses and now im a bit more confused?

    someone just tell me i wont give me baby shaken baby syndrome by jello head jiggling my baby! hahaha. 

    thanks for all the reassurance ladies! ive been a pregnant woman nutcase overthinking it even though i CLEARLY saw dr karp doing it to tons of babies with, like, 100% success.

    I didn't notice you were still pregnant. Once your baby is here and you can't get he/she to stop screaming, you'll probably be a bit more brave.

    Also, you won't give your baby shaken baby syndrome!  :) 

     ahh, thank you! this is pretty much what i was thinking but my brain works in weird ways in this home strech of pregnancy. it didnt help that even though im convinced that dr karp is a GENIUS, he does seem just a little odd in the dvd :]

    gotta give him credit though, he's got me so convinced it all works i plan on busting those S's out before we even leave the hospital

    meh, you may not need too. I was all gung-ho on HBOTB, but then I gave birth to a pretty chill kid. We occasionally do the 5's (mostly just swaddle, suck and swing/sway, occasionally a little shushing) and he calms right away. Interesting read though.  

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    imagesadsadie:

    meh, you may not need too. I was all gung-ho on HBOTB, but then I gave birth to a pretty chill kid. We occasionally do the 5's (mostly just swaddle, suck and swing/sway, occasionally a little shushing) and he calms right away. Interesting read though.  

    ahh you give me hope!

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  • ungraceful13ungraceful13 member
    Our daughter loves the swaddling, shhsing, and swinging.
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