Learn The Dunstan Baby Language

Parents should see their babies’ body language and understand when the baby is feeling something. According to Priscilla Dunstan, her research confirmed that babies can actually communicate and be understood by others if you’ll know how to take care of them.

Dunstan Baby Language

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The Dunstan baby language shows the outcome of over 8 years of baby sound research. Every baby talks from birth to three months using 5 distinct sounds that signal hunger, sleepiness, discomfort, needs to burp and stomach upset (lower gas).

These are sound reflexes (universal words) from Dunstan that babies have:

Neh – “Mum, I’m hungry” The sound is produced when the sucking reflex is triggered, and the tongue is pushed up on the upper part of the mouth.

Owh – “Mum, I’m sleepy” The sound is produced much like a clear yawn.

Heh – “Mum, I’m experiencing discomfort” The sound is produced bya response to a skin reflex, such as feeling itchiness or sweat in the skin.

Eh – “Mum, I have gas, I need to burp” The sound is produced when a large bubble of accumulated air is caught in the chest, and the reflex is trying to release this out of the mouth.

Eairh – “Mum, I have lower gas, my stomach is upset” The sound is produced when trapped air from a belch that is unable to go to the stomach where the muscles of the intestine tighten to force the air bubble out. In fact, this sound is an indication of a bowel movement in progress.

For more information visit the Dunstan site