Study: Hippie Cures Won't Hush Crying Babies
It must really suck to have a baby that cries nonstop for hours, days or even weeks on end — a condition that, when properly diagnosed, is called infantile colic. In a new study released by the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Exeter found that there's basically nothing you can do about it. So forget about the elixir recipe that grandma's great-great grandma passed down, and toss out that new age baby therapy book that suggests you feed your newborn fennel and teach it yoga or whatever, and brace yourself for a hellish introduction to parenthood. Because, according to the researchers, "the notion that any form of complementary and alternative medicine is effective for infantile colic is currently not supported from the evidence." In other words, you're screwed.
