Apr 4, 2008

Baby Blues

It is common knowledge that the first few months in your baby's life can be the most stressfull event for both parent and baby. Indeed, the number of combinations of stressors sorrounding this occassion is just too staggerring beyond any understanding.

Throwing an extra "stressor" into the mix (e.i. viral invasion, accomodation and lodging problems, etc.) and you'll end up with my current state!

I read somewhere that lack of sleep is one of the main ingredient for paraoia and psychosomatic episodes.... as I writes this entry I am hearing little voices and seeing visions.... "will you stop talking Mr. Wilson...!!!"

But hey, don't get me wrong! I would rather trade all the stress, fatigue, and paranoia in the world only if I could be with my family and go through it all with them....

With all that is happening; I admit that I am managing the entire situation poorly. I'm constantly undermining the very tactics that I swore to defend, which is ---- never to panic when the baby refuses to sleep at 4am in the morning...

See I am a fairly reasonable man. Be as it may, I always pride mysels and on my scientific approach to things even in the face of the most challenging of challenges... Naturally, I wanted to explore a way to better understand my baby... bridge the gap, lick the fives....

So I've poured through countless pages online, several self-help tips from relatives, friends, and even perfect strangers, but the one that really struck a chord with my incessant pursuit of understanding and colloborating everything as scientifically as possible is this claim by an australian musician turned parenting expert, named Pricilla Dunstan (thanks to my brother-in-law).

The entire approach of the dunstan baby language system is based on the production of sounds as prescribed by how the baby itself reacts to stimulus or event. At first I thought it is an outrageous claim... but going through the video; I have to admit that some of the so called "sound equivalent" does make sense.... like if the baby cries and makes the sound "Neh" or "Nah" as the tongue hits the roof of the mouth - indicating that the he/she needs to be fed... or how the baby would cry and make the sound "Ah" when it is feeling bloated and needed to be burped.

Always wanting to take a balanced stand on the matter, I've also come across an entry from Wikipedia itself explaining that the entire syste should not be celebrated as a scientific breakthrough as it was not developed under any scientific methods or formed from any reputable study...

Anyway here's a sample video for you all... you be the judge....