Dunstan Baby Language -- Learn the universal language of newborn babies

I saw the Instructor on Oprah a few years ago and ever since I've recommended it. Now, that i gave birth i had to get it for myself and I have to say it was sooooo.. helpful! I highly recommended for new mommies. It really helped me understand my baby's cries. It was so important for me to understand her cry and not be like, "What's wrong with her?" every time she cried..... I knew exactly what was wrong... whether it was a burp, her being wet, or hungry was a big one for me because I'm breastfeeding her. The "Neh" sound was my cue...lol.. I actually looked forward to her cry and discovering her needs and It made me feel so confident as a mom that I was able to understand my little one. Get it! by the time she 4 months old you'll be a pro at knowing and discovering her needs. I don't care what anyone else has to say. It's a must. Get it. Lots of Love. Ev.

I'd recommend this to any new mother...or experienced mother with another newborn. This works for me even up to 2 and 3 years old, even though it says the first (6 months?) I can hear the cry of someone else's baby across the room, and often know what that baby needs. It takes time, but it's so much easier than guessing and trying things out until something works. It is quick too...you learn to watch body language and wait and listen...then act. Baby stops crying quickly. The downsides are that it is expensive, and it's not a long video. But it is very valuable information that will help you for years.

I wish that I had gotten this before my son was born. It takes patience and careful listening, but I am able to hear what my baby is saying to me about 80+% of the time. The crying spells are reduced because I'm not blindly trying to find the cause of his discomfort. I learned my baby is particularly gassy and in need of more burping than I thought. Now that I know this I can take preventative measures and help relieve his discomfort before it becomes unbearable. As a new parent, it has helped me to relax and built my confidence in my ability to care for my newborn. It's an amazingly simple premise, but it is fascinating. The responsibility is on the parent to listen carefully to their child to learn their sounds, but with a little effort you'll get the hang of it within a few days. I highly recommend this to motivated parents. NOTE: This "language" applies to babies between birth and 3 months. After that the language clues are diminished or disappear.

I've been a neonatal nurse for MANY years and raised three children of my own. I thought I pretty much had a handle on the baby stuff....but I saw this woman on TV and that night at work, I amazed my co-workers with my ability to "read" the baby cries. One nurse, another old timer, couldn't figure out why her patient wouldn't stop crying since he was fed, burped, changed and swaddled. I told her he still needed to burp. She said he already had....I said, "Do it again." She picked him up, patted him twice and he burped and fell asleep. This DVD TRULY teaches you how to read baby cries. You'll know when it's really hunger, discomfort, sleepiness etc. I bought it for my daughter with her first child and I couldn't believe how much calmer mother and baby became. Buy this for ANYONE raising a new baby...the world will be a nicer place!

I ordered this dvd after watching Dunstan's Oprah segment on youtube. I learned very little from the dvd that I didn't get from the video clip. The production is high quality, but I was disappointed at the lack of substance. All you really need to know are the basics -- there are different cries, they mean this, and here are examples (actually the examples of real babies was the most helpful part). Her tips for meeting the needs of each cry were, honestly, laughable to us. ("This is how you can feed your baby" -- duh!) While it was a bit basic for my husband and me, I could see the tips part of the video being very valuable as part of an education program for teen parents or first-time parents who have no clue what they are doing. We have found knowing the "neh" and "eh" cries to be very helpful in caring for our 6-week-old daughter, and I'm glad I came across this material. I would recommend that others borrow a dvd or surf you-tube to find all they need to know, though.

I was introduced to Dunstan Baby Language from watching the Oprah Winfrey Show. I thought that this was amazing and with my wife about to deliver our second child, I thought that it was a must have. I was disappointed when I watched the two disc to find that everything that I was on the discs was shown on the Oprah Show. There was nothing really more for us to know. Though, for parents who are having their first child and did not see the Oprah Show, please buy these disc. They are well worth the money spent. The videos are well spaced out with examples of different crying babies, so after awhile, you are able to recognize what your baby is trying to say to you. Really! It is amazing! Burbing, feeding, diaper, gas, discomfort. It is all there right in front of our faces. Right now, we have a very content baby. We are enjoying or time interacting with our newborn instead of trying to figure out what he is trying to say to us.

When I saw her on a Oprah's show, I was not as persuaded by what she said, because I wasn't very sure how the mothers on the show so quickly acquire their babies' words, as I was when I saw and heard so many different infant voices producing very similar and almost identical words on the DVD. I read somewhere there are some linguists suspicious about the validity of her "newborn words" because the have yet to go thorough rigorous research studies and that there are yet some others even more suspicious about the motives behind the reasons why she allegedly didn't go though the join research with the Brown University team and pull it off. Despite those suspicions, however, it seems to me that the audio-visual evidence contained in this DVD.filled with simple but raw and primary information is good enough to disprove the doubts of some lab-bound linguists who do not do a whole lot of field work because they're TOO busy writing papers in their offices based on other people's research TO go out to see and hear the actual babies crying and excruciating their mothers holding them as she did. The babies and the mothers as well as their voices are good enough for me to believe what she says about how she came up with the "newborn words" in her 2012 book "Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry." If Dunstan's interpretation of the infants' words really works universally with babies of any culture and language, and if you really want to free yourself from the pain of enduring the never-ending cries of your baby, this DVD is truly worth a try.

I saw this lady on Oprah before I had children and tucked her name in the back of my mind for later. When I had my son in 2008 I ordered this disc and was not let down. Boy did it change my and my son's world. He was a happy baby but happier that I could understand him. I would recommend this to all new moms or even experienced moms becoming mom to a new baby again! Very easy to do with your baby!

It works perfectly for the baby's first four months or so.

The first-time parents I gave the Dustan baby language cd watched it several times, including during the first 24 hours they brought their new baby home so they could figure out why she was crying. They texted me the next day to thank me and told me it had really helped.

Love this video. Very helpful for first time moms or for moms that haven't had kids for a couple years. A good refresher.