Try the colic waltz: Although it's much more fun to play with a happy baby, when it all goes «pear shaped», Dads are often the best baby settlers: you don't smell like breast milk so if baby has a bellyache, he can relax without snuffling round for more mummy milk; you have big strong arms to lie him along (with his legs straddled across your arm and a bit of
pressure against his belly).
Sometimes if she notices that a student's
belly isn't moving with the breath, she'll place the spine of a book into the
belly horizontally and tell the student to press
against it with the abdomen on an inhalation and then release the
pressure against the book on an exhalation.