Aussie mum Pricilla Dunstan has a special sensitivity to the nuances of sounds. She could tell if a person was sick just by talking to them. When she had a baby of her own she noticed the different sounds her own child made in the pre-cry stage. Research on other babies showed that babies the world over make similar sounds, but if they are not attended to, this special baby language gets extinguished. (If I had had this knowledge I think it wouldn’t have taken five months to solve my daughter’s colic problem. Emma stopped having gas when I avoided cow’s milk – I have an slow-acting IgG allergy to dairy. Emma was also proving sensitive to it because 10 days after I quit dairy, she stopped having gas).
The baby language words are:
Neh - I'm hungry.
Owh - I'm sleepy.
Heh - I'm experiencing discomfort - perhaps that they need a fresh diaper.
Eairh - I have lower gas.
Eh - I need to burp.
Source: Wikipedia.
