100%有效：美國醫生教你一招止住新生兒哭泣
This may be the saving grace all new parents are looking for. An American paediatrician claims to have found a miracle way of holding an infant to make it stop crying.
或許這正是廣大初爲父母之人苦求的福音。一位美國兒科醫生聲稱，自己找到了一種神奇的方法，只要托住嬰兒，就能讓他停止哭泣。
Dr Robert C Hamilton, of California, says his technique, dubbed 'The Hold', works every time without fail.
這名加利福尼亞的醫生名叫羅伯特·C·漢明頓，他將自己的這種技法稱爲“斜託法”，他說這種方法非常有效，百試不爽。
He picks up the child, folds his or her arms across the chest and holds this tight, lifting the baby's bottom with the other.
他抱起嬰兒，讓他或她雙臂交叉在在胸前，然後一直手託在嬰兒前胸，另一隻手托住嬰兒的臀部，把嬰兒舉起來。
Holding the baby at a 45 degree angle with both hands, he then lifts the baby up and down, rocks it back and forth and 'shakes the little booty'.
雙手這樣以45°斜角託着嬰兒，然後託着嬰兒上下晃動，前後搖晃，“搖搖小屁股”。
'Everything you do is very gentle, you don't want to do any jerky motions ever,' Dr Hamilton advices.
“做每個動作都必須非常輕柔，絕對不要有任何魯莽的動作，”漢明頓醫生這樣建議到。
'You hold the child with the fleshy part of your hand [the palm] not the fingertips, and I am supporting his chin, which is why I am holding him at a 45 degree angle.'
“用手上最柔軟的地方（手掌）托住嬰兒，而且我還要托住他的下巴，所以要斜45°托住他。”
He adds that The Hold works best for babies up to three months as they then become too heavy.
他還補充說，斜託法對出生三個月以上的嬰兒最有效，因爲三個月大時，嬰兒的重量就很重了。
