Social Media Influencer, Texas Dad, Shared a Hack to Easily Put Babies to Sleep

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By Fatima Virrey , Parent Herald Sep 04, 11:59 am

A social media influencer, Texas dad, shared on Facebook a hack to put kids to sleep. In his Facebook post, Austin Miles Geter put his daughter to sleep using a hack involving facial massage.

The now-viral video has more than 10,000 shares, and many parents are crazy about this hack.

The viral video

At the beginning of the viral video, the Texas dad shared that his newborn baby was having a hard time taking her nap. After, he continued by saying,

"I heard if you gently rub their eyebrows they go to sleep. So, I'm going to try it."

The social media influencer started rubbing his newborn baby's eyebrows, and after a few seconds, she started falling asleep.

The entire viral video was only for less than a minute, and that is quite a fast time to put babies into sleep.

The viral video now has more than ten thousand shares, six thousand comments, and 17,000 reactions.

The netizens' reaction on the viral video

There were different reactions to the hack of the Texas dad.

(Photo: Screenshot from Facebook page of Austin Miles Geter)
Social Media Influencer, Texas Dad, Shared a Hack to Easily Put Babies to Sleep

Some netizens shared that they tried the social media influencer's hack to their kids, saying it was effective. One mom said, "She is So cute, and I rubbed all 3 of my boys' eyebrows and it worked on them."

Other parents shared that they did the same technique to their children, who are now adults. "It worked for me with my son 38 years ago!" one parent said.

One parent shared, "I did that toy son he's 19 now always worked!" Another mom finds it nice that even after she used this technique to her daughter, it is still beneficial, "Rubbing babies eyebrows to go to sleep worked 43 years a go....I'm glad to see it still is done today."

However, some said that when they tried it with their baby, nothing happened, "I tried that and she just looked at me like what are you doing???!!"

Other parents shared their massages like the social media influencer's way, which worked with their kids, "We used to tickle down my kids nose from their forehead. (Also that hold was amazing for my second child. I wish someone had taught me with my colic first baby) "

Some children commented their parents put them to sleep when they were younger, "My mom used to rub my forehead... literally worked till I was 12... best memories ever!"

Another viewer said, "My mother used to gently rub my eyelids to put me to sleep, it does work!"

In the article published by Fox news, a study was mentioned citing that facial massages are effective in calming babies.