Practical Tip: Learn how to do a "swaddle" wrap with a blanket around your infant. This is a kind of "burrito" wrap that cocoons their body. For us it was a damn-near miraculous way to calm the "crying for no reason" (ie when all the usual things like feeding and changing, etc are done).<p>The explanation is that the sensory input from their limbs flopping around stresses babies out because their brains can't integrate it all yet. Wrapping them up in a secure little bundle and rocking them gently can change things instantly. I learned it from this book (<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0553393235" rel="nofollow">https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0553393235</a>) but you can also just search the "The Five S's" technique and get the general gist of it.<p>> especially in this bold, brazen world we are living in where there are so many unknowns.<p>We pulled out all the stops to make sure we were doing everything as perfectly as we could for our kid from reading the best books to taking classes and getting all the best tools. We worried over every little detail. Now that our kid is a vibrant teenager and we're nearing the end of the child-rearing roller coaster, my perspective is different. I now understand that much of that worry and stress over every little thing didn't really matter. The reality is that the average healthy baby is incredibly resilient.<p>While we were raising our kid, we had some neighbors raising a baby just a few months apart. While well-intended, their approach to parenting was haphazard and uneven compared to ours - basically the bare minimum of care and nurturing compared to our obsessively researched, peer-reviewed, best-practice focused, metric-driven maximum efforts. Today, both our kid and our neighbor's kid are doing equally great. The moral of the story is do what you feel is important but don't stress over every detail. In the end, the difference between "okay" parenting and "maximum effort" parenting probably doesn't matter all that much. Just relax and try to enjoy the journey.