Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Interpreting babies' sounds

Word on the suburban street is that there was this amazing woman on Oprah yesterday named Priscilla Dunstan who claims to be able to interpret the noises babies make to understand what they're saying. Evidently it was really compelling. Everyone's talking about it. She claims that:
  • Neh="I'm hungry"
  • Owh="I'm sleepy"
  • Heh="I'm experiencing discomfort"
  • Eair="I have lower gas"
  • Eh="I need to burp"
I tried to watch the accompanying video but it's shut down do to high demand, and her website is also slow because of all the traffic. I imagine Dunstan sitting in her house right now Googling "does the Ferrari 575M have LATCH system?"

She shouldn't be the only one to get rich off of interpreting what babies say. I am also a "baby whisperer" of sorts, being able to interpret the little noises my four-month-old makes:

  • Kheeh = "I see it's almost eleven o'clock and you're still in your pajamas. Really, mother, don't you have some sort of website about not doing that sort of thing?"
  • Ghah Ooog = "That twenty-dollar bill great-grandpa gave you for my college savings account -- would that be the same one I saw you pull out at Target yesterday?"
  • Nang Heeeh = "Remember that time you'd accidentally turned off the monitor and didn't hear me crying for five minutes? I'll be sending the psychotherapy bills to you."
  • Gooh Gooh = "Just wanted to note that it is now approaching the thirty minute mark that I have been sitting in my bouncy chair while you chase after my big brother. I feel certain that the other babies from playgroup do not have to endure this sort of duress."
  • Neeg = "I heard what you said under your breath when I woke up for the third time last night. Plan on that being my first word."

Maybe this'll be my next Three Month Project, launching aNeuroticMomInterprets YourBabysSounds.com. It'll be huge.

5 Comments:

Jules said...

I have often thought that someone would make a killing off some sort of translating machine. I think it would be even more valuable at around the 18 mth age when they just stand at your feet at the dreaded 5pm and grizzle away because they just want to make sure that you never have sex again!!

So great to see that you are back into it, I only just deleted Project Unlikely off my blogroll three days ago so it was extremely good timing. Hope everything went well and look forward to more great ramblings.

Natural Jules ( I just blog as Jules now as I was only kidding myself that I was "natural").

November 14, 2006 3:51 PM  
Becky said...

I saw that Oprah. It was amazing. She really did listen and then suggest to the mothers what the baby said. The mothers burbed, fed, etc, and the baby calmed immediately. It seemed too simple, you had to wonder, how come every mother doesn't know this already? Almost too simple to believe.

Becky

November 15, 2006 11:03 AM  
Becky said...

Saw that show! It was amazing. Almost too amazing. It seemed too simple. It's hard to believe that every hospital doesn't just give out a manual with those "words" on it when you leave with your new born. That's how simple she made it seem.

Becky

November 15, 2006 11:06 AM  
becky said...

sorry about that double post, I'm getting an error when I post indicating that my action couldn't be completed ...

November 15, 2006 11:08 AM  
Aimee said...

Can I just say that sometimes I am SO over with Oprah? I mean, some shows are great and fun, and then others like this make me a little crazy. Am I the only one?

November 15, 2006 9:12 PM  

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