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

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!

By: sofea's mummy

sofea's mummy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:56:11 +0000

Hi !! My 4 month old daughter calms down when we turned on the hairdryer too. Not only does she calms down, it helps her go to sleep. Works like magic. When she’s extremely fussy n cannot go to sleep easily, i just turn on the hairdryer for few minutes n keep patting her to sleep n i must say it works.However my worry is that i heard using a hairdryer is actually dangerous on the brain. Even on adults !! More so on babies. This is due to electric static or smthg like that in the hairdryer motor. what do u think? I do hope it’s not true, becoz we do use the hairdryer quite often n i really dont want to endanger my baby.

By: Ideas for Starting a Baby Bedtime Routine | Parenting - The Dad Jam

Ideas for Starting a Baby Bedtime Routine | Parenting - The Dad Jam — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:33:58 +0000

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