Jaygee Babysooth [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

[for The Baby Soother cassette]"It's marvellous. I put it on after a night feed and he settles immediately. I used to have to cuddle him until he dropped off again. Now I feed him and put him back in his crib with the tape on and hop back into bed"'.

[For Baby Soother cassette]"It was brilliant. Emma went quiet when I turned it on". Michelle used the tape to calm Emma from the age of six weeks to seven months'

[for the Baby Soother cassette] "What we found, well quite simply that it worked. "If I hadn't had this tape I would have gone mad' - said the young mother who tested it for us'... RATING; 9 out of 10.

[for The Baby Soother cassette] "The Baby Soother" cassette - Although by no means invariable in its success, it has on occasions produced dramatic and immediate results when all else has failed. . . It is clearly worth having around"

The "Jaygee Babysooth" audio CD - calms crying babies and is a digitally re-mastered version of the successful cassette - "The Baby Soother" which consists of a foreground of rhythmic sounds with a background of pink noise and was tested for a year on over 350 babies in British maternity hospitals and homes and found to soothe over 90 % of fractious babies as long as it was started on the infant within the first 3 months of birth. The sound frequencies of the CD are almost identical to that of a mother's womb and the lower/ middle band of the human speaking voice. It play for 25 minutes and comes with full instructions on how to use it. Using only sounds to settle babies is a reality. Astounding results emerged from the tests. They showed that over 90% of babies ceased crying within an average of around 3 minutes . and that soothing times ranged from a few seconds, up to 10 minutes, depending on the individual baby.

So how did the Jaygee Babysooth sounds come about? In the spring of 1979 we had a newborn baby son who would not stop crying. My wife Patricia and I tried all the usual remedies but nothing worked. I had heard about womb sounds calming babies so wanted to use those but found out that they only calm for a couple of weeks from birth and only if started at birth. My baby Jeffrey (later nicknamed Jaygee by himself) was seven weeks old. Undaunted, I decided to record crying Jaygee with a view to playing it back to him in the hope that he would follow a pattern that a midwife friend had observed in maternity hospitals - namely that a crying baby will sometimes stop crying when another starts. The tape recording went wrong, we got a wall of Swooosha sounds instead of the expected crying- and baby Jeffrey - although screaming for his mum (who was out shopping at the time) stopped crying and went peacefully back to sleep. The Jaygee "Baby Soother" cassette was born. Months later, after the tape had been used by our Health Visitor on several other babies to good effect, Pat and I with infant Jeffrey went on Radio Bristol to get volunteers for a fuller test programme. I also co-opted the help of several experts in the field including an eminent audiologist, a renowned paediatrician and several specialist university psychologists. In 1980 these trials took place in Bristol, Bath and Somerset under the spotlight of the BBC, ITV, local and national papers and magazines. The publicity caused huge demand and so Jaygee Cassettes came into being to market the product. It is now into its third decade of calming crying babies.