What do babies sound like?
posted on: 08:01 AM October 07, 2007
B-boy and A-star have a new sound.
That's something that never get talked about, the noises babies make. Every baby you see on TV, film and radio make cliche baby noises; crying and goo-gooing. You'd think that someone in a prenatal class would say, "There are some baby noises you might not expect", but they don't.
When A-star and B-boy first came home, my Wife and i had them in a crib next to our bed. We put up a little blanket to block out sunlight, so we never actually had a direct view of them. At that age, after they ate, they pretty much fell asleep.
Then the sounds began.
There was burping. You could ignore that. There was wheezing. That got me up occasionally to see if they were breathing okay. There was wet clicking. That raised eyebrows and i usually got up to see what that was about. Then there was this sound... the only way to describe it was a hoot. They hooted.
The funny thing was, we'd hear all these sounds in rapid succession, rush over to see if something was wrong and A-star and B-boy would be sleeping peacefully. I couldn't even tell who made the noise. We'd watch them for a few minutes, not a peep. Lie down and it was like sleeping on the middle of the monkey cage at feeding time.
After a while, we all settled in and gradually the noises faded away. Now, when they're awake, B-boy and A-star gurgle, razz, giggle and squeal.
And now they've developed a new noise. It's like their squeal, but it rises sharply in the middle, to a point that I think I can hear the local dogs bark in response. At first, we thought it was just because they were having trouble going to sleep. But it's gone on for a few days now, and they use it for everything; happy, sad, hungry, you name it.
I guess we'll learn to love it.