One of the things that fathers and mothers have worse is the issue of sleep. Babies wake up a lot, and each time they wake us up. In this sense, if they are taken care of quickly they do not take too long to fall asleep and we can all continue sleeping. The problem, or one of the biggest problems, is when the night comes and we try to make them fall asleep, or when it is in the afternoon and we try to make them sleep without success, even though they feel like sleeping.
Every father and mother looks for the best way to sleep their baby, and although they often succeed, tricks and ideas always go well, so try new techniques. Well, the father of a baby posted this video a few days ago and is going around the world (more than 2 million visits) because it teaches us how to sleep a baby in less than a minute.
As seen in the video, the baby is wrapped in a blanket. This is usually done to try to imitate the lack of space in the uterus, offer containment and thus make you feel more secure. It is a technique that usually works, although it is not recommended to abuse it because may favor sudden baby death syndrome and because if you spend a lot of time immobilized it can affect your physical development (as I know that the sudden death has worried you, you can go through this entry where we talk about the issue of wrapping babies).
Being wrapped and lying, the father, Nathan Dailo, who publishes the video from Australia with his three-month-old son Seth as the protagonist, a paper tissue runs through his face, repeatedly, until the child falls asleep. It passes in the downward direction, from top to bottom, so that the baby, as if trying to follow the direction of the handkerchief, will close his eyes. The surprising thing is that he gets him to sleep in just 42 seconds.
The doubt, of course, is to know in what state of tiredness the baby is. Maybe he was about to fall asleep and that only acts as a trigger, because I doubt that in 42 seconds you can sleep a baby who is perfectly awake.
In any case, it is something that works. When I slept my children, I did something similar. First on the shoulder: a little soft dance to rock and relax. Then, when they were calm, I put them lying in my arms and that was when caressed them from the forehead to the nose, like drawing a vertical line with your finger. Don't ask me where I saw him do it, or who, because I don't remember it, but I know that I did it and many times it was this that ended up getting them to sleep.
Now, of course, it is necessary to know if it works or does not work with the handkerchief. I don't have babies anymore, so I can't try the method, but many of you do. So tell us how the invention works if you get to try it. If it works like this man, it can be a real revolution.
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