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This one may not be the best but I never saw it in any baby books and it saved us much stress. In case of crying, break open the....YOGA BALL. I sat on it and bounced her in my arms. The motion was just right and helped her to sleep or soothe.

If your newborn has one eye shut/eye infection, use breast milk. No massaging of the eye duct necessary. Just drop some breast milk in there every so often and it'll clear up in a few days.

Not really an infanttip but good for breastfeeding. While soaking your body in an epsom salt bath. Roll over and soak your sore nipples in the water. It helped so much with the healing of cracked nipples!

@Crumbs: yes! Breast milk is amazing stuff for baby acne too!

@808love: C LOVES bouncing in the ball, especially with Dh. Buys me time to pee, get set up for feeding, etc, and calms her so well. I did a lot of bouncing while pregnant too and wondered if it was related.

I was going to say yoga ball so I'll give my second favorite tip. Similar to going outside to change the scenery, sometimes LOs just need to see new faces. My fussy baby was an angel for everyone else and I felt like a failure or like she didn't like me. When somebody told me it wasn't me, she just wanted new faces it made me feel so much better. I looked forward to going out and providing her with those new faces. It made us both happier.

And dental bibs/pee pads for blowouts & travel. Amazing.

@Weagle: I agree with "babies are crazy."

My best tip is just to trust your gut and go with the flow. Babies generally sort themselves out if you don't over analyze too much.

Drowsy but awake. Not nursing/rocking to sleep has saved my life! I put both of them down wide eyed today, and I haven't heard a peep (she says as she knocks on wood). It's not foolproof, but it's pretty good.

BABY REPOSITIONING!!! I really can't stress it enough.. Make sure your baby looks both ways frequently and alternate which way they lay in the crib at night. This is the best thing you can do to prevent plagiocephaly. Had we known this we may have been able to prevent the lump that DD got on her head.

@Foodnerd81: We started from the beginning... sort of. We would try it, and sometimes they would fall asleep, especially DD. If they cried, we'd pick them up immediately, especially when they were teeny, because I knew it was too early to really sleep train, but we thought we could start the habits early. Sometimes it didn't work at all, and we would rock to sleep. Hell, sometimes NOW it doesn't work (8.5 months) and they get rocked to sleep, but it's rare. We also let them fuss it out now.