5 words all new babies use - interesting

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I saw this clip yesterday (it's from Oprah) about a woman who has those extra sensory skills (seeing texture/colour when people speak etc).
She has studied babies, starting with her own, and identified 5 separate words/sounds all new babies make at the beginning of crying which helps to tell you what the problem is.
I darn well wish I'd known this when mine were small.
I hope it can help someone out there, and would be interested to know if it does.

I think it's interesting. I guess it does make the case for listening to your baby and not watching the clock.
I remember quite early on saying to my partner "He's telling us what he needs we just need to listen"

god I just reread what Ii wrote and I sound a like a bit of a sanctimonious cow! Sorry.

I think for me I would have struggled to remember what each sound means and for me that would have stressed me out.

You didn't, Hazchem. It made sense (both points).

Pretty cool though and a good one to reference back to - even if just to see if it works!

I found this fascinating - particularly as she talked about the sounds being made due to the reflexes that the baby was....doing....exhibiting.....reflexing? Anyway, v interesting and thanks for sharing!

Wow, that's really interesting! My youngest is 10 months now but I wished I could go back in time to listen to the sounds that she made.

It makes sense though.

How broody does that video make you?

interesting. never thought i'd learn something from oprah. however, not convinced the 'eiar' sound is lower gas pain. and what about the cry for 'i'm fed up and want a cuddle'?

I have 2 DDs & 1 DS who is my middle child.

I was able to understand DS's cries quite easily but not DDs' for some reason.

Very interesting.

Fascinating, indeed. I recognise a few of those sounds and will listen more closely. I think my baby's 'Neh' sounds like 'Ning' though, which I find can refer to a couple of things (hunger, boredom). We'll see though... Thanks for sharing the link.

I found my DS's noises sounded a lot more like these "words" after he had his tongue tie snipped and could use his tongue more. Before that, they all sounded like "ehhhhhhhhhhhhh" (and they were a lot quieter before too!).

I never thought I'd learn anything from Oprah either - have to let you know that I saw this on FB not American TV

I think bored will be a personal one because the others are more reflexes, like how a hiccup/ wind/ cough/ sneeze will be universally recognised because they're the body's reaction to something.

It's funny, as I watching OH brought baby up and she was saying "neh" and then sucked rather hard for her milk!

I found it interesting that babies will stop asking for food if you don't respond to them when they do. Actually that made me feel a little sad

Anyway, not broody, no more brood in me.

Very good point, confuddled, thanks.

DS is 10 weeks and is my second - I find this time round it's much easier to know what he needs. Not only from his cries but the expressions - if he's hungry he has a hunted look and won't smile/play, for example. If he wants a cuddle he cries and grins a bit and stretches his arms out. I would say it's what he does with his body and his facial expressions rather than the sound of his cry that is most useful.

Awesome, we're already testing it and so far she seems to be right. Thanks for posting

This is making me think about other (more tribal) cultures and how they do not appear to have the problems with crying infants that we do in the west.
I guess babies are carried a lot more, outside of affluent white dominated societies (to generalise terribly) but also I'm thinking that we have got very out of touch with our human instincts...the Victorian age can't have helped!

This is a bit like when old ladies bump into you and you're pram and say - "he's hungry" - they understood the words and weren't as mad as you thought...

Fascinating. I've written them all down and now waiting for 9-week-old-tomorrow DS2 to wake up so I can listen!

Marking for tomorrow when I can listen properly

I never understood this different cries for different needs thing - ds had one cry, it meant "pick me up and stick a boob in my mouth". Tired, lonely, hungry, bored etc all needed the same reaction anyway

I can easily believe this to be true.

I instinctively found both my babies very easy to respond to - no idea why that was and certainly nothing I "did" (ie no boast here, that's just how it was), and I always responded to them at the first snuffly noises before they cried. I barely heard them cry in the first few months. Perhaps I had subconciously tuned into their 'words'?

I bought the DVD when I had my first DS in 2007. If anyone is interested in looking for it, it's called Dunstan Baby Language.

My DCs are 14 and 19 now so no hope there, I'm now waiting to be a granny so I can interfere terribly and tell the parent what the baby is asking for

I've been listening to 7 wk DS's cries since watching the video and I do think she's right. Although yesterday I did say to him "you can't have any milk unless you say "neh" so maybe I'm taking it a bit too seriously!

RitaMorgan - that worked for mine too