Scientists say the best way to soothe a crying infant is by carrying them on a 5-minute walk

Scientists say the best way to soothe a crying infant is by carrying them on a 5-minute walk currentbiology

Identifying which action soothes crying infants the best. Credit: Current Biology/Ohmura et al.

Kuroda and her colleagues have been studying the transport response, an innate reaction seen in many altricial mammals—those whose young are immature and unable to care for themselves—such as mice, dogs, monkeys, and humans. They observed that when these animals pick up theirand start walking, the bodies of their young tend to become docile and their heart rates slow.

This suggests that holding a baby alone might be insufficient in soothing crying infants, contradicting the traditional assumption that maternal holding reduces infant distress. At the same time, movement has calming effects, likely activating a baby's transport response. The effect was more evident when the holding and walking motions continued for five minutes. All crying babies in the study stopped crying, and nearly half of them fell asleep.

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