Maybe what pediatrician Robert Hamilton learned in recent days is that soothing a baby is on most parents' minds. Like more than 14 million.
Of course, he probably knew that already, or his technique for soothing newborns making waves on YouTube wouldn't exist.
Hamilton, who has been in practice for 31 years and runs Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, Calif., always had a way with babies. "Typically, when you examine children, they cry. That's what we expect as pediatricians," he says in an interview.
"That was the element that comforted them more than anything," he says. "What I was doing was swaddling them." The babies would calm down, the parents would oooh and ahhh and ask how to do it themselves.
Hamilton says he's been doing this for about 20 years. His technique is different from most because he holds the baby out and lifts their little bodies up and down, gently bouncing them while wrapping their arms tightly around their body. "All of this is very gentle," he says. He sometimes refers to it as shaking their booty.
With six of his own children, and six grandchildren, he's had a bit of experience beyond the office, too.
The gentle lifting and booty shaking Hamilton demonstrates may be the new technique of this generation of teeny ones.
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Of course, he probably knew that already, or his technique for soothing newborns making waves on YouTube wouldn't exist.
Hamilton, who has been in practice for 31 years and runs Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, Calif., always had a way with babies. "Typically, when you examine children, they cry. That's what we expect as pediatricians," he says in an interview.
"That was the element that comforted them more than anything," he says. "What I was doing was swaddling them." The babies would calm down, the parents would oooh and ahhh and ask how to do it themselves.
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Hamilton says he's been doing this for about 20 years. His technique is different from most because he holds the baby out and lifts their little bodies up and down, gently bouncing them while wrapping their arms tightly around their body. "All of this is very gentle," he says. He sometimes refers to it as shaking their booty.
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With six of his own children, and six grandchildren, he's had a bit of experience beyond the office, too.
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The gentle lifting and booty shaking Hamilton demonstrates may be the new technique of this generation of teeny ones.
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