Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry
One of the world’s foremost parenting experts offers a revolutionary guide for translating a crying baby’s urgent messages.

 

Like many new parents, Priscilla Dunstan was at her wit’s end trying to ease the crying of her colicky infant son. Then she made a startling discovery: His sounds varied according to his needs, and she could decipher their meaning by tracking the sound as a physical reflex. Unlike learned languages, Dunstan soon realized, every newborn from birth to three months possesses a natural, reflexive communication system for signaling hunger, tiredness, the need to burp, lower gas, and general discomfort. Thirteen years of research culminated in the Dunstan Baby Language, now made available to all caregivers in Calm the Crying.

Helping readers learn to recognize and respond to exactly what their baby needs, Dunstan’s remarkable program covers ten sounds in total that can be identified and used to calm a baby. Brimming with diagrams and photographs, Calm the Crying reduces the frustration of wasted time spent addressing the wrong needs. A baby’s cries are a powerful form of communication—now made even more powerful because the message can be understood loud and clear.
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Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry
One of the world’s foremost parenting experts offers a revolutionary guide for translating a crying baby’s urgent messages.

 

Like many new parents, Priscilla Dunstan was at her wit’s end trying to ease the crying of her colicky infant son. Then she made a startling discovery: His sounds varied according to his needs, and she could decipher their meaning by tracking the sound as a physical reflex. Unlike learned languages, Dunstan soon realized, every newborn from birth to three months possesses a natural, reflexive communication system for signaling hunger, tiredness, the need to burp, lower gas, and general discomfort. Thirteen years of research culminated in the Dunstan Baby Language, now made available to all caregivers in Calm the Crying.

Helping readers learn to recognize and respond to exactly what their baby needs, Dunstan’s remarkable program covers ten sounds in total that can be identified and used to calm a baby. Brimming with diagrams and photographs, Calm the Crying reduces the frustration of wasted time spent addressing the wrong needs. A baby’s cries are a powerful form of communication—now made even more powerful because the message can be understood loud and clear.
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Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry

Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry

by Priscilla Dunstan
Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry

Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry

by Priscilla Dunstan

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Overview

One of the world’s foremost parenting experts offers a revolutionary guide for translating a crying baby’s urgent messages.

 

Like many new parents, Priscilla Dunstan was at her wit’s end trying to ease the crying of her colicky infant son. Then she made a startling discovery: His sounds varied according to his needs, and she could decipher their meaning by tracking the sound as a physical reflex. Unlike learned languages, Dunstan soon realized, every newborn from birth to three months possesses a natural, reflexive communication system for signaling hunger, tiredness, the need to burp, lower gas, and general discomfort. Thirteen years of research culminated in the Dunstan Baby Language, now made available to all caregivers in Calm the Crying.

Helping readers learn to recognize and respond to exactly what their baby needs, Dunstan’s remarkable program covers ten sounds in total that can be identified and used to calm a baby. Brimming with diagrams and photographs, Calm the Crying reduces the frustration of wasted time spent addressing the wrong needs. A baby’s cries are a powerful form of communication—now made even more powerful because the message can be understood loud and clear.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583334690
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/02/2012
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 828,859
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.93(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Priscilla Dunstan founded her internationally acclaimed parenting and family clinic, the Priscilla Dunstan Research Center in Sydney. Her research has been widely featured in the media, from The Oprah Winfrey Show to Today. Also the author of Child Sense, she now lives in the United States with her son and continues to do research worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface: The Secret Language of Babies 1

Acknowledgments 13

Introduction: The How and Why of Your Baby's Cries 15

Part 1 newborn words

Chapter 1 "neh": "i'm hungry" 29

Chapter 2 "owh": "i'm tired" 33

Chapter 3 "eh": "i need to burp" 36

Chapter 4 "neh" solutions 40

Chapter 5 "owh" solutions 67

Chapter 6 "eh" solutions 86

Part 2 6-week words

Chapter 7 "eairh": "i have gas" 103

Chapter 8 "heh" (and variations): "i'm uncomfortable" 107

Chapter 9 "eairh" solutions 112

Chapter 10 "heh" solutions 128

Part 3 12-week words

Chapter 11 "gen": "i'm teething" 149

Chapter 12 "lowel": "i'm lonely" 154

Chapter 13 "nuh": "i'm thirsty" 159

Chapter 14 "augh": "i'm overwhelmed" 162

Chapter 15 "gen" solutions 167

Chapter 16 "lowel" solutions 174

Chapter 17 "nuh" solutions 182

Chapter 18 "augh" solutions 191

Conclusion 203

The Words Chart 205

Afterword 207

Index 219

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