Comments on: Another (controversial?) way to calm a fussy or crying baby

By: Head Jammer

Head Jammer — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:51:44 +0000

Hi Irene, indeed, it really helped us too! It was just hard to wean her off of it after, but we managed, and it definitely was a lifesaver for us many times!

By: Irene

Irene — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:47:13 +0000

I discovered this by accident because I was watching my son and drying my hair in the same room. I had a moment of epiphany as I saw him drift off to sleep to the sound of the dryer! Now I use the noise to help him get to sleep at night – he only needs it for 2 minutes before he gets sleepy. THANK YOU PHILIPS

By: Head Jammer

Head Jammer — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:55:41 +0000

Good point and tip Mary Jo!

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:44:50 +0000

Please do not put the blow dryer in the crib wth the baby. I work at a hospital and we have seen several very young babies with burns from the dryer. As the baby moves, the dryer can come in contact with the baby. Also as the dryer is running it can rotate.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:42:17 +0000

I am adding to this post late, but we just used the blow dryer method after our 10 weeker cried for 2 hours straight. Worked so well!

By: Head Jammer

Head Jammer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:20:22 +0000

Hi Space Ape, thanks for your comment! Glad to hear it works for you too!

By: Space Ape

Space Ape — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:29:29 +0000

Yup, blow dryer works like a charm. All we need to do is turn it on and it can take an extremely fussy crying fit from top-of-lungs crying to quiet and soothed in under 10 seconds. Many times this is all that we need to keep her distracted and comforted. We don’t blow it on her, it’s just the white noise that helps to soothe.

By: Head Jammer

Head Jammer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000

Congrats on your 7 week old Kristina and thanks for your comment… you brought up a very good point about the pee too, thanks for that!

By: Kristina N.

Kristina N. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:35:31 +0000

This works so well with my 7 week old daughter, we started doing this to help clear up and prevent diaper rash and everyone told me I was crazy but it works to dry her bum and calm her down, one thing I learned is not to hold her bum off the changing table, as you would when you lift it up to set a new diaper under, while you’re drying because the dryer seems to trigger her urge to pee and the pee goes with the gravity up to her belly and then it’s a diaper and outfit change and that just pisses her off My blow dryer is now permanently plugged in by the changing table.

By: Head Jammer

Head Jammer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:37:43 +0000

Yeah, the hairdryer worked like magic for us too, but we had to stop it eventually because we found that she also needed it at night time, and that was too much of a disturbance for us! I haven’t heard anything about a blowdryer being dangerous on the brain. It is probably just an old wive’s tale. Besides, you don’t really put the blow dryer very close to the baby’s head anyways… usually you put it somewhere in the room, mainly for the white noise it creates. Another option is to just burn a CD of a blowdryer sound, and put it in a radio on repeat!