Could babies be talking to us and we are just to dense to get it? If this is true…. then mothers around the world rejoice. Sleep deprivation may be a thing of the past. Priscilla Dunstan thinks she has done just this. She says she has unlocked the door to understanding babies language. Since childhood Priscilla has had a photographic memory for sounds. When she became a mother herself she begin hearing patterns in her child's cries.
She tested her theory on 1,000 infants and found there are five words that every 0-3 month old says. Her research spanned eight years and crossed continents. The babies words are actually sound reflexes, according to Priscilla.
Neh=”I'm hungry”
Owh=”I'm sleepy”
Heh=”I'm experiencing discomfort”
Eair=”I have lower gas”
Eh'eh', "eairh" and "heh"= “I need to burp”
Pricilla appeared on The Oprah Winfrey show to demonstrate her theory “Dunston baby language” to nine moms. Each mom was surprised and claimed to learn their babies are actually talking to them. Supposedly, babies make these sounds during the "pre-cry stage" - before they start crying hysterically. Therefore, parents who learn to identify the noises should be able to stop the screaming outburst by simply understanding what the baby needs or wants.
According to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, “as the speech mechanism (jaw, lips, and tongue) and voice mature, an infant is able to make controlled sound. This begins in the first few months of life with "cooing," a quiet, pleasant, repetitive vocalization. By six months of age, an infant usually babbles or produces repetitive syllables such as "ba, ba, ba" or "da, da, da." Babbling soon turns into a type of nonsense speech (jargon) that often has the tone and cadence of human speech but does not contain real words. By the end of their first year, most children have mastered the ability to say a few simple words. Children are most likely unaware of the meaning of their first words, but soon learn the power of those words as others respond to them.”
So, really who knows! Are infants trying to communicate with us using repetitive sounds?
