We Made This Baby!

A note to all new parents: Our early two week experience has shown that the sling is an immediate way to soothe a screaming baby. Our Lawrence has taken to the sling so well that I’m almost affraid that we will have to ween him off of it some day. At any rate, if you are feeling desperate, then I highly suggest using the sling. Here’s what you might do:

1. Put the child in the sling at the state of screaming
2. Lightly jog in place allowing the child to jostle a pretty good amount, but not a huge amount. Do this for maybe 1 minute or less.  Just a very light jogging. If you own a big house then a brisk walk would be good. Our place is microscopic, so we have to jog in place.
3. After this just walk briskly so there is a sway. Walk naturally, though. Judging by our kid, they seem to like a natural pace. I also read the newspaper out loud while doing this. Our kid seems to be dead asleep within about 4-5 minutes.
4. Finally, we let the kid sort of sleep in the sling between us so we can have him close by. The sling we have is a bit stiff, so the sling sort of splits open in a green bean shape where the pea inside is our kid.

At this young age, he will sleep a good 2 to 3 hours in this situation which means a nice recovery time for us. I’m just worried: will our kid like this too much? What other good ways are there to calm a child?