Should there be a link somewhere in there?
Inside a subway it's too loud to scream.
Maybe, but what is it? It informs you about how loud the average subway is? It generates subway-like sounds for commuters on vacation who find it comforting? It lets you know what familiar-ish phenomenon the sound around you most resembles?
What's the difference between "max" and "peak"?
I liked Avg Subway before they were cool.
My guess is that it measures sounds and displays what it iss "equivalent" to--lawnmower, plane, subway, etc.
8: So 4.last, but probably only decibel level, not any other characteristics of the sound.
I assume this is a screenshot of some sound monitoring app that lets you know how loudly your kid is screaming. Perhaps the subway thing is just a comparison?
Awesome swimming app. Subway obviously the time you spend underwater. dB is deep breaths in hipster calligraphy. Max and Peak are your blood oxygen and/or pulse readings or other acquatic-type fit-bit kind of things.
I figured "Max" and "Peak" were people's names.
Something something five-dollar footlong something.
a screenshot of some sound monitoring app that lets you know how loudly your kid is screaming. Perhaps the subway thing is just a comparison?
Correct! I used to blog here when nosflow was smart. The difference between max and peak is technical and you should feel free to google it.
when nosflow was smart.
Man, I remember that. What happened?
The maximum and minimum sound levels are simply the highest and lowest time-weighted sound level measured. Be careful with the Peak, as the terms "Peak" and "Maximum" mean very different things in the world of sound level meters.
The Peak is not the same as the Maximum Sound Level. The Peak, referred to as the Lpeak or sometimes Lpk, is the maximum value reached by the sound pressure. There is no time-constant applied and the signal has not passed through an RMS circuit or calculator. This is the true Peak of the sound pressure wave.
For a pure tone, the Peak will be 3 dB above the Maximum Sound Level. For varying signals there can be a huge difference and there is no way to calculate the Peak from the Max or any other measurement.
15: Welcome to your 30s! It's all downhill from here.
You might want to turn the baby down a little. That's pretty loud.
It really, truly is. And not in that good whee downhill is fast way.
That's pretty loud.
Yes, it's really fucking loud. He's chilled (a little) but I used to wear earplugs to change his diaper. No shit fooling.
After a relatively brief bout with cholicy symptoms, our daughter (17 mo)has actually become remarkably un-loud and un-crying most of the time.
We have decided that this is because we are amazing parents. This has the benefit of making us feel superior, though the best thing about it is that it helps us avoid the feeling that our next one will be a crying, screaming nightmare. (Though, of course, we will love her no less for it, except to the extent that exhaustion dims everything.)
20: Have you considered him telling to try to be a little quieter? I know you modern parents hate to discourage creativity of any sort, but well I thought I'd just offer an old person's perspective.
Babies only cry loudly because they aren't being nurtured enough. Have you tried wearing your baby? A baby with sufficient attention shouldn't be crying this loudly, and you should be concerned that the baby is making this much noise.
In the Masai culture in Africa, where mothers wear their babies in slings and keep them close at all times, crying this loudly is unknown.
24 & 25 feel wasted w/o the video feed of the parent's head exploding on receipt of these helpful hints.
If a baby cries, alone in a forest, does it make a sound?
Although I did once recommend a waterproof, mesh sling meant for poolwear as a gift to a swim-loving parent and the gift was reportedly well-loved.
27: I don't know. I couldn't get IRB approval.
28: I hope there were warnings about recommended stroke/sling position combinations.
24,25: Honestly the half-assed totally racist fake ethnographic studies are the best part of baby books. Noble savage women don't feel labor pain, you know!
The Calabat is not as loud but he seems to scream himself into hysterics very easily.
Common sense I think will easily lead any parent to adopt the most soothing stroke/position. Or at least the with the best sound muffling effects ...
A baby's cry is a signal designed for the survival of the baby and the development of the parents. Responding sensitively to your baby's cries builds trust. Babies trust that their caregivers will be responsive to their needs. Parents gradually learn to trust in their ability to appropriately meet their baby's needs. This raises the parent-child communication level up a notch. Tiny babies cry to communicate, not to manipulate.
Since the cry is a baby's language, a communication tool, a baby has two choices if no one listens. Either he can cry louder, harder, and produce a more disturbing signal or he can clam up and become a "good baby" (meaning "quiet"). If no one listens, he will become a very discouraged baby. He'll learn the one thing you don't want him to: that he can't communicate.
Baby loses trust in the signal value of his cry - and perhaps baby also loses trust in the responsiveness of his caregivers. Not only does something vital go "out" of baby, an important ingredient in the parent- child relationship goes "out" of parents: sensitivity. When you respond intuitively to your infant's needs, as you practice this cue- response listening skill hundreds of times in the early months, baby learns to cue better (the cries take on a less disturbing and more communicative quality as baby learns to "talk better") . . . In time you learn the ultimate in crying sensitivity: to read baby's body language and respond to her pre-cry signals so baby doesn't always have to cry to communicate her needs.
Children torment their siblings to communicate. You and your spouse should hold self-criticism sessions to best assess which partner is failing the children so appropriate adjustments can be made.
The Calabat is not as loud but he seems to scream himself into hysterics very easily.
Screaming into hysterics is amateur. Screaming into throwing up is pro.
Babies modulate their screams to the exact frequencies that shreds their mothers' nerves.
33, 34: Are you quoting, or making that up on the fly? Because if that's you, you're disturbingly good at it.
38: think about what he does both professionally and recreationally. It's about what I would expect.
38: Yes, 34 came in as I was writing 35 and now I feel shame.
Babies modulate their screams to the exact frequencies that shreds their mothers' nerves.
My kids can hit a note that makes my eardrum pulse in this slow wwwhhhhahn, wwwwwhhhahn, wwwwhhhhahn throb. Actually, now that I think about it, I haven't heard Ace do that. Must be that my eardrums are too old now.
No, I'm quoting. Those are direct quotes from the Dr. Sears (America's #1 pediatrician) website.
38: Looks lie stealing quoting at least in part.
"One Dr. Sears, one bullet" is a R. Halford original quote, though.
I'm not sure that "1 Dr. Sears, 1K bullets" has the same ring to it.
41: S had this amazing vocal apparatus when she was an infant that would occasionally create purity of scream such that it genuinely felt as though it penetrated to the center of my brain. Traces of it remain there still.
I was going to quote back from Napalmolive -- sometimes I think my kids are doing it on purpose -- but then it turned serious. And I got lost listening to a clip from the Giant Rat of Sumatra. And Beat the Reaper, for the other thread.
When a boy's voice box goes through a growth spurt you can be deafened at the breakfast table and it seems it is only partially intentional.
The title doesn't quite work, but Eats, Poops & Leaves might be promising.
l'il PGD quickly learned a high keening exasperated wail of 'Daaaady!' 'Mommmmy!' got results. He totally mastered guilt-inducing inflections very early on.
As the uncle of 13 before having my own kids, I had plenty of experience being appalled at crying babies. What I didn't expect was that as a parent, I'd develop a knack for ignoring it.
What I really didn't expect was that sometimes I'd find it cute.
The most beautiful sound in the world is somebody else's baby crying.
The most beautiful sound in the world is somebody else's baby crying.
This is timely. UNG just had another baby and I am having another mini-meltdown over the knowledge that I don't get to ever have any more babies.
I'm sure this one will wind up in prison or something.
xelA isn't a baby who is particularly prone to crying -- mostly only when ill, or when I'm trying to put him to bed and I'm sick [little fucker knows, somehow] -- but he is _really_ loud and has quite a deep penetrating cry. He can also go for as long as it takes. All those sleep-training guides are totally full of shit.
'The first night is the worst. After 20 minutes they'll cry themselves to sleep.'
Aye, fuckin' right.
31: you mean you don't believe they all have their own special songs?
The most beautiful sound in the world is somebody else's baby crying.
So very true.
57: Thanks, Mobes. That means a lot.
59: Yeah, Iris was terrible at the sleep training thing, too.
Most negligent parenting moment (so far): We had a homemade crib with gates that swung open and multiple latches to hold them shut. One night we're eating dinner and Iris is just crying and crying upstairs. We were trying to sleep-train her, so we held out a long time. Finally we go up, and the gate has come partly open, and she's fallen down, but with her head caught in the partial opening. OMFG. But she went to sleep pretty quickly after that, so that was good.
I am having another mini-meltdown over the knowledge that I don't get to ever have any more babies.
Trust me, it pales next to the near-constant meltdown driven by the realization that "Oh fuck, I'm almost 40 and just had another baby and I'm already too tired to get the dishes done every night."
Di, the girls were just whining that it's soooooo unfair that they got to go to Chicago for fall break and don't for spring break. Shall I ship them to you? The baby would be a bonus!
re: 63
We [by which I mean *I*] had to crash sleep-train him when my wife went back to work, as we switched from her putting him to bed every night [and feeding him before sleep] to me doing it 5 nights a week, with none of the requisite equipment to soothe him to sleep with a feed.
That went surprisingly OK, and now he only has terrible melt-downs at bed-time maybe one day out of seven. But he still wakes up in the night at least once, and I am completely incapable of settling him at night. He just won't accept it from me. So there are a lot of tears at 3am.
I think my wife is going to be in for a terrible shock when she completely stops breast-feeding and has to get him to sleep for the first time.
The most beautiful sound in the world is somebody else's baby crying.
Drawing on my experience on an American Airlines redeye a few years back, I would like to disagree with this 100%. Though I can see the point; rather like the comforting sound of battering rain and howling wind that you don't have to go out into.
homemade crib
This has decapitation written all over it.
68: oh, that's a fun way to decorate it.
I lost a sister to a poorly put together crib. That was a very close call.
The most beautiful sound in the world is somebody else's baby crying.
Only if you also have a baby and it isn't. I remember before I had kids I felt utterly intolerant of people who couldn't shut up their crying babies, then when my kids were young I was pretty tolerant, and now that my kids are adults I'm pretty intolerant again.
Modest Proposal: Nobel Peace Prize for the inventor of noise-cancelling headphones. Who was it?