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There's no need to feel rude if you say it to your baby, because your newborn will find it comforting! Repetitive “shh, shh” sounds mimic the sounds your baby heard when he was inside your body. It mimics the sound of blood whooshing through your blood vessels. Experienced moms seem to really have this down.

Karp explained that mimicking the calming rhythms of the womb—with swaddling, shushing/white noise, swinging, sucking, and holding Baby in the side-stomach position (aka: the 5 S's)—can activate a baby's innate calming reflex. This is like their inborn “off switch” for crying and “on switch” for sleep.

It's only natural that a shushing noise would soothe them. A shush sound is very similar to what they are used to – it is comforting, soothing, and rhythmic (when done with the shusher). The shusher provides an effortless way of shushing your baby so that they can calm down, relax, and feel comfortable enough to sleep.

ing to Karp [10] recreating the sensory milieu of the womb (e.g., snug position, floating in fetus position, deep resonant sound of the placental blood flow, jiggling motion, swallowing of amniotic fluid) would calm infants by triggering infants' so called calming response (CR).

Babies spend 9 months in the womb, with amniotic fluid and Mum's pulse swishing around them. Once they are born, this swishing sound is suddenly gone. It's only natural that a shushing noise would soothe them.

Program Goals The overall goals of The Happiest Baby (THB) are: Promote good parent-infant bonding. Assist in the prevention of a number of severe and lifethreatening consequences of infant crying such as marital stress, Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), Post- Partum Depression (PPD), and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

It just so happens that there is one bundle of tricks known as the “5 S's.” Pediatrician Harvey Karp pioneered this method when he brought together five techniques that mothers have often used and organized them into this easy mnemonic: swaddle, side-stomach position, shush, swing, and suck.

There's a reason shushing—aka white noise—is an integral part of Dr. Harvey Karp's groundbreaking 5 S's for soothing babies: It really works! White noise has been proven to help lull babies to sleep and keep them calm and content. And it can work for toddlers, big kids, and grownups, too.