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Simple Solutions to Stop the Sobs
For Jessica Stone, her son Liam's incessant crying was unnerving. "I couldn't figure out what was making him cry, which made me feel helpless," the Chattanooga mom says. Lynn Morley, of Belton, Missouri, remembers her own tears: "I cried when Alexander cried -- I felt like I wasn't being a good mother."
Those 115-decibel baby cries aren't just hard on the ears, they're hard on your psyche. "I see many moms who feel terrible and have trouble seeing themselves as good parents," says Pamela High, MD, professor of pediatrics at Brown University Medical School, in Providence. In fact, a fussy baby may lead to an unhappy parent. A study Dr. High coauthored found that mothers whose babies cried a lot were more than twice as likely to experience postpartum depression.
To manage your baby's sobs without too many tears of your own, follow this five-point plan.
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