24 - Wednesday, April 8, 1987 — North Shore News

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NORTH SHORE chairman of Participaction Alex Mahood draws the winning name of a fitness package offered by North Vancouver’s public fitness centres. Fitness instructor Nicole Allen holds the draw box. A $46 fitness prize was drawn eacii for William Griffin, Ron Andrews, the North Vancouver Recreation Centre and Delbrook Community Centre. There was also a grand prize of a year-long health package worth $250,

Crying babies need motion

MOTION is the magic treatment that can stop colicky babies crying.

Dr. Elinor Ames, a psychology professor at Simon Fraser Univer- sity who has been studying crying babies for five years, confirms this, but admits that researchers sti] don’t know why, although the remedy seems to have something to do with breathing.

‘When you rock or move a

baby,’’ she says, ‘“‘the baby.

breathes faster and more regularly. If we can make a baby breathe regularly, it will stop crying.”

The average baby cries less than three hours a day, according to Ames, but a colicky baby can easi- ly double that quota.

Ames discounts claims that all’

colic is related to stomach pains. “Most colic is not some kind of

separate disease,’’ she says. ‘‘It’s merely a lot of crying.”

Ames recommends that parents carry their colicky babies around as much as possible, even while doing housework, to take advan- tage of the calming effect of movement.

“The trick is not to waste time doing housework while the baby is sleeping,’’ warns Ames. ‘‘Parents need their energy and should rest when the baby is asleep.””

And a word of advice from Ames to the friends of new parents with a baby suffering colic: forget stuffed toys or clothing as baby gifts; instead give babysitting time. “The freedom, even just to take a nap, is invaluable for new parents,’’ she maintains.

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