Scientists have uncovered the fastest way to soothe a crying baby - and it could have evolved as an evolutionary mechanism to avoid predators
Panther Media GmbH / AlamyAn experiment involving 21 infants aged less than 7 months found they were more likely to stop crying and fallwhen their mother walked with them, compared with when they were held by their mother in a chair or laid in a cot.
To test the effect in people, the team monitored 21 crying babies in Japan and Italy while their mothers tried four methods to calm them: holding their baby while walking, moving them back and forth in a pram or rocking cot, holding them while seated and laying them down in a cot. The babies didn’t calm down when their mothers held them while seated or placed them in a cot. But when their mothers walked around with them, they all stopped crying and nearly half of them fell asleep within 5 minutes.
Preliminary experiments with fathers showed they also calmed their babies when walking around with them.
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