My wife came home recently with a DVD under her arm. She said it can tell you what your baby’s cries mean and can help you understand what the baby needs to be happy and stop crying.
My first thought is that this is some hippy touchy feely crap that is either going to be nonsense and incredibly boring or just complete garbage. I figured if there was any truth to any of it, we’d have heard about it by now since people have been writing books and teaching baby classes forever.
Well, I was to be proven wrong.
The DVD sat on top of the TV for a week or two. My wife would mention that we should watch it from time to time, but I would always find something – anything else to do to avoid having to suffer through it.
Finally, wifey adamantly declares one day that we are watching it and that’s it. I reluctantly pop it into the DVD player and we watch.
The DVD starts by telling the story of the woman who made it. Basically, she discovered as a kid that she has a photographic memory for sounds. When she had a baby, she started to see patterns in the different cries her baby let out. She was then able to further identify the cries by noting what made the baby happy for each particular cry.
She found that all babies have at least five distinct cries for things such as hunger, tired, burp me, Continue reading ‘What Do Your Baby’s Cries Mean?’