CALM THE CRYING

From internationally recognized parenting expert comes an easy guide to understanding and using the Dunstan Baby Language (DBL), a system that will help parents interpret the first five cries of a newborn, allowing parents and caregivers to create lasting bonds with happier babies.

For a new parent or caregiver nothing is more distressing than listening to a crying baby and being unable to soothe it. As a new mother Priscilla Dunstan was experiencing the same distress while trying to soothe her colilcky son, when she made a startling discovery – she could distinguish the sounds of her son’s cries, helping her respond to his basic needs. This discovery allowed her to realize that other babies use specific cries to express their basic needs, such as hunger or tiredness. In Calm the Crying, Priscilla shares a truly unique discovery—a secret baby language—that is imperative for parents everywhere to understand. The secret baby language that Priscilla has named the Dunstan Baby language (DHL) will reveal the hidden meanings behind an infants cry. DHL initially consists of five baby cries:
Neh--I'm hungry Owh--I'm sleepy Heh--I'm experiencing discomfort Eairh--I have lower gas Eh--I need to burb
As Priscilla takes the parent and caregiver through how babies create each of these sounds, she also teaches them how to recognize it and implement the settling technique that can meet the baby’s needs. As they workthrough the book, they will have learned 11 sounds in total that they can identify and use to calm the baby. Full of diagrams and photos, the bookwill be an easy to view and understand with solutions to calm the baby, allwhich will help parents and caregivers communicate and bond with happier babies. Priscilla Dunstan is an internationally renowned parenting expert who founded the well respected parenting and family clinic, the Priscilla Dunstan ResearchCenter, in Sydney. Her work at the clinic and her extensive research to classify infant cries have landed her on the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and many other chats around the world. She has been profiled in Parenting, Baby Talk, Woman’s World and numerous other magazines and newspapers. She continues to do research on classifying infant cries and has discovered and released culturally specific words for infants that will help parents and caregivers around the world care for babies. She currently lives in New York with her son.