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Tricks of the Trade

Calming and Sleeping Secrets From Dr. Harvey Karp

By Teri Brown

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Determined to unearth whatever clues he could as to why so many children were plagued by colic, he read everything he could on the subject. He soon uncovered something that began to put everything into focus for him and turn his alarm into hope.

"There were some tribes around the world where babies never cried more than a minute," says Dr. Karp. "These babies weren't different from ours, but the parents were doing something that really workd."

He spent the next 20 years researching and refining, making dozens of house calls and gradually organized the information into what has become the five "S's":

  • Swaddling
  • Side or Stomach position
  • Shushing
  • Swinging
  • Sucking

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