Comments on: Women are better at calming babies than men?

By: mother of 6

mother of 6 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:21:12 +0000

i so disagree my husband is a bigger baby than my infant and much crankier and tempermental

By: darlene7

darlene7 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:34:40 +0000

the big joke in our family was that our daughter got colic from her dad because he is such a loud-mouth. but of course we know now that parenting has nothing to do with colic. and her dad was like our MVP when we were dealing with colic, so the answer here is NO, women are not necessarily better at calming babies when theyre crying.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:33:17 +0000

I second that. My husband was so much better at the swinging part of the 5 Ss. For some reason I had to work a little harder to figure that out. But it works like magic for babies with colic and really makes a huge difference when you cant get them to stop crying.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:31:25 +0000

Agreed. Sometimes we dads need a little extra training but then we really come through. We dealt with colic and nonstop crying too and I was really overwhelmed by that but Dr Karps book was like my bible and it helped us every step of the way.

By: savana68

savana68 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:30:07 +0000

No way Take it from me – we had a colic situation on our hands and once my husband got used to it, he was like a MASTER with calming the crying.