100%有效：美国医生教你一招止住新生儿哭泣

 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.

或许这正是广大初为父母之人苦求的福音。一位美国儿科医生声称，自己找到了一种神奇的方法，只要托住婴儿，就能让他停止哭泣。

Dr Robert C Hamilton, of California, says his technique, dubbed¹ 'The Hold', works every time without fail.

这名加利福尼亚的医生名叫罗伯特·C·汉明顿，他将自己的这种技法称为“斜托法”，他说这种方法非常有效，百试不爽。

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.

他抱起婴儿，让他或她双臂交叉在在胸前，然后一直手托在婴儿前胸，另一只手托住婴儿的臀部，把婴儿举起来。

100%有效：美国医生教你一招止住新生儿哭泣

Holding the baby at a 45 degree angle with both hands, he then lifts the baby up and down, rocks it back and forth² and 'shakes the little booty'.

双手这样以45°斜角托着婴儿，然后托着婴儿上下晃动，前后摇晃，“摇摇小屁股”。

'Everything you do is very gentle, you don't want to do any jerky motions ever,' Dr Hamilton advices.

“做每个动作都必须非常轻柔，绝对不要有任何鲁莽的动作，”汉明顿医生这样建议到。

'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.'

“用手上最柔软的地方（手掌）托住婴儿，而且我还要托住他的下巴，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.

他还补充说，斜托法对出生三个月以上的婴儿最有效，因为三个月大时，婴儿的重量就很重了。

1 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。