Article: SHHH!! UCLA PEDIATRICIAN DEVELOPS THE `CUDDLE CURE' TO CALM COLICKY INFANTS.(Life and Arts)

Byline: CECELIA GOODNOW P-I reporter

If your infant is wailing inconsolably, your focus is kind of fragile so we'll go straight to the point:

Dr. Harvey Karp, a Santa Monica pediatrician, says he has found the holy grail of parenthood - a method to make even colicky babies stop crying and calm down.

What he calls the "Cuddle Cure" or the "5 S's"consists of these steps: Swaddling, holding the infant on his side or stomach, saying "Shhh" loudly in the baby's ear for white noise, swinging (or jiggling) the infant and giving him something to suck on.

Now isn't that easy?

Actually, as Karp explained this week to a group of ...

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