Welcome to motherhood. And fatherhood.

Discoveries sometimes happen outside of universities and laboratories by ordinary people with a desperate need they need to solve.  Today, these unqualified but highly motivated people are called Citizen Scientists. They don’t know the accepted rules. So they don’t realise they are breaking them.  One such rule-breaker was a child violinist with a pretty good memory for sound, Priscilla Dunstan gave birth to her first child on June 30, 1998. Within days, she begins to notice patterns in her son Tom’s incessant, non-stop cries. Priscilla quickly memorised the five basic sounds he was using (loudly, and often) and through trial and error, worked out a consistent way of responding to his needs. It took another 8 years of tireless research and development with the help of her father Max, a professor at the University of NSW to prove the sounds were universally applicable. Tom’s father George was the driving force behind the development program and along with a dedicated team of amazing people, introduced a revolutionary new way of listening to babies on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006. It was a remarkably lucky amazing journey to get to that global stage (at that time, before Facebook and Tik Tok and The Kardashians, it was the pinnacle with the biggest global audience). Made possible by many generous helping hands and supporters along the way. We are very grateful to everybody who made this useful method possible. Not the least of which is a colicky baby boy now 24) and his exhausted musical mother.