1A baby's cry has been voted one of the worst sounds on Earth.
2Making it stop is the holy grail of parenting.
3Here we have a... a crying baby.
4Enter Dr. Robert Hamilton.
523 million people have seen him perform a miracle.
6I fold his right arm like this and then his left arm in front.
7And then very gently hold his little bottom and gently rock him up and down.
8Just like that.
9Is this magic? That baby just stopped crying.
10Who is this doctor? Or should I say magician.
11We're in Santa Monica to ask the magician pediatrician how he became the baby whisperer.
12When I examine the child in the hospital or here in my office I frequently make them cry.
13Over the years I've been able to really perfect this method of holding them and it works well.
14We rock them up and down very gently. Sometimes we stir him to the left and we stir him to the right.
15But how does this magic work?
16Dr. Hamilton believes that this technique works because it mimics the baby's experience in the womb.
17By folding the baby's arms across its chest, it creates a sense of containment.
18So that's a sense of familiarity for them.
19The gentle rocking motion mimics the sensation of floating inside the amniotic sac.
20So what I do is I take one hand like that, other hand like that
21and very gently hold her at about a 45-degree angle.
22The 45-degree angle has nothing to do with comforting the baby and everything to do with interesting the baby.
23It's almost as though the baby's going "oh! hello world",
24"this is new",
25"I like it".
26Suddenly they're at this angle that they're not used to experiencing. Usually, they're on their backs, they see the ceiling, they see some faces coming over.
27This combination of the familiar and the new provides a lot of different stimuli that overwhelm the baby's instinct to cry.
28I've had four babies and I wish I had known about the hold...
29all the times.
30Hopefully this is helpful to you, thank you for your attention.
31My best to your family.