"The Baby Soother" Audiotape & CD

A baby crying incessantly is a most distressing sound for parents to hear. Now relief from this upsetting situation is available, in the form of a cassette tape of rhythmic sounds, and "pink noise".

Introduced during the first ten weeks of life, the tape should soothe baby to quietness within minutes and continue to do so for many months. Rocking and pacing are ended leaving parents and baby relaxed, with frustration and tension gone.

Promotes Good Sleep Habits

The Baby Soother is not habit forming and can be used anytime, including fussy, irritable times, colic, and teething. Excellent for establishing family routines of sleeping through the night.

Dr. Lee Salk, the noted psychiatrist and pediatrician whose research in sounds that lull babies, has found that many parents use the vacuum cleaner, air conditioner, car engines and other rhythmical sounds to get their babies to sleep when everything else fails.

His theory that rhythmical sounds soothe babies is based upon:

    1. Rhythmical sounds mask other everyday sounds which might be startling to the baby, and

    2. That while the baby is in the uterus where there is a minimum of discomfort and stress, the baby is exposed to various rhythmical sounds such as the mother's heartbeat.

The rhythmic sounds suggested in Dr. Salk's research have now been captured in a most convenient form - an audiocassette tape. THE BABY SOOTHER consists of three distinct rhythms within nine different frequencies, which sounds are internationally copyrighted. It is rather machine-like to the adult ear, but the "pink noise" sounds of THE BABY SOOTHER are for the baby's ear.

How It Was Developed: A Miraculous Accident

THE BABY SOOTHER came into being through an incredible series of chances. In 1979 a despairing father decided to record his screaming son so that he could play it back to the infant, just to let him know how horrible he sounded. By chance the baby fell asleep and the unattended cassette recorder whirred quietly away in the corner.

Later that day when the baby cried, the frazzled dad played the tape, and again the crying stopped. The father was amazed because the sound on the tape was not the expected screaming but a wall of rhythmic, swishing noises. Sound engineers later stated that this was a recording freak, due to a chance combination of factors and poor recording techniques employed by the harassed Dad.

On numerous occasions after this when the baby would not stop crying the tape was played and the crying stopped. Whatever the reason it worked! Subsequent spectrum analysis showed a frequency pattern similar to intra-uterine sounds (which babies hear in the womb) and a frequency range comparable to the human voice. From that original tape a last resort "Baby Soother" has been developed to be used after feeding, changing, cuddling and rocking have failed.

Incidentally, the baby who began this whole process is now a hearty teenager. The family rests well and the father, Roger Wannell, English professor, is doing just fine.