Harvey Karp is the most famous baby-calmer in the world. In a new interview, he discusses baby sleep, swaddling, and the science of parenting.
The pediatrician and entrepreneur Harvey Karp is the most famous baby calmer in the world. To new parents, he is something between a sage and a magician, offering insight into the opaque miseries and motivations of the tiny humans newly entrusted to their care.
Is the reason for the declining birth rate really an open question? It seems to me as if there are some pretty clear reasons why it might be slowing down. So that didn’t sound to me like gas—babies still have gas at four months! They’re pooping, they’re farting, they’re spitting up. And, interestingly, premature babies don’t get colic until after their due date. A baby born three months early—they’re pooping, they’re passing gas. But they don’t get colic until they’re three months old. So it was clear that this was developmental.It turns out that it’s a series of several different things, for the most part.
The way I look at it, taking care of a baby is a three-legged stool: feed the baby successfully, calm their crying successfully, and get them to sleep. The other things—shampooing the hair, taking care of the umbilical cord—they’re not that hard. But, if you fail at feeding, crying, or sleep, you go down a very dark hole. There’s tons of support for feeding babies. There’s a whole infrastructure:, La Leche League, lactation consultants.
: it’s a tool you need. So at least that’s one of the choices we’re hoping to remove from applying only to affluent people.It’s interesting, from a company point of view, because it has actually worked really well for us that people lend the bed, sell the bed on, things like that. We built it to be very robust. Though we don’t get any revenue from that, and, ultimately, our company can’t exist without being able to get revenue.Oh, there you go. All right. That’s a help.
Well, why is that? The answer, bizarrely, is because sleeping on your back is not the way that babies like to sleep. If you ask babies, “Who wants to sleep on your back in total darkness and total silence for fourteen hours a day?” they say no! They say, “I want to be in your arms. I want to be held. I want to be cozy. I want to be cuddled.” That’s how babies are happy.
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