Question: How do you stop a baby from crying if feeding and burping don't help?

Good question, Lola!

Here's the thing about babies though.  They're really terrible at communicating what they need.  Just like I'll nervously make a joke whenever I'm under stress, babies will cry at the drop of a hat (seriously, don't drop hats around them).

That's their response to any need.  Are they too hot or too cold?  They cry.  Did you drop them on their heads?  They cry?  Are they feeling angst about the economy or ennui about the upcoming election?  Crying.

So, given that they could be crying about anything from hunger to cosmic rays, all you can really do is go down a checklist.  For the most part, babies cry for one of six reasons:

Baby too hot.
Baby too cold.
Baby too tired.
Baby too poopy.
Baby too hungry.
Baby too burpy.

So, solve each of those problems in turn and hope that one of them fixes the baby.  This is equivalent to hitting reload on your browser or rebooting your computer each time a web page doesn't load correctly.  Now, some people will tell you that they can discern between the hungry-cry and the cosmic-ray-cry.  Personally, I never developed that baby-whispering superpower, but maybe you'll have more luck.  I just rebooted each time and hoped the baby stopped crying.

So, the answer, Lola, is to march down the checklist, but if all of those fail, then your baby might have what doctors refer to as "colic".  Colic is the medical term for the case when nobody has any clue why your damn baby is crying all the damn time.  Laypeople refer to this as a "bad baby".

I had one of these bad babies.  What did I do to stop her from crying?  Mostly a lot of swearing.  It wasn't very effective.