I really want to go, but I'm torn. TCG is fine either way. It's not "his" concert.

TCG is in the living room with ltc. I'm on the other side of the house. So how is it I have to be the one to tell him that she is hungry and/or needs a new diaper? Can he not hear her increasingly loud babbling?

One of my "fondest" memories is when Bobby was an infant and very fussy and I was so exhausted that DH sent me to nap and took him into the bedroom with him. Instead of settling down he got louder and louder until I couldn't take it anymore and went to check. Found the baby on DH's chest whaling while he snored away. Sigh.

Hasn't there been a study (or five) about how women's brains are especially wired to pick up the nuances of a baby's cries? I would research and cite a source, but my brain is breaking on doing that for my current paper.

Anyone here work for Lear Corporation? I'm doing a paper on thier corporate culture. Finding peer reviewed resources is having my head spin in circles, hence the current break.

I am the only one who could tell the difference between her cries when she was smaller, including people like my mother. TCG is a really good dad, but if he is reading, even if he is in the room with her he can tune out most of her babbling (she doesn't really cry much). Where I hear the slightest sound she makes even when I'm fast asleep in the middle of the night.

Hasn't there been a study (or five) about how women's brains are especially wired to pick up the nuances of a baby's cries?

This woman's brain does no such thing, I'm afraid. Although I can pick up the nuances of my cats' cries, so maybe it's just a matter of exposure.

I am the only one who could tell the difference between her cries when she was smaller, including people like my mother.

Maybe it's more that the MOTHER'S brain is wired to pick up the nuances of her own baby's cries.

The only thing a baby's cry triggers in this woman's brain is "Oh dear god, no, I cannot deal with that." Which is why it's good I'm not a mother. I wouldn't be surprised if motherhood didn't make profound brain chemistry changes.

Kitten cries to trigger me differently. Maybe I'm genetically destined to be a crazy cat lady.

While lunch is cooking, I did a bit of research. There have been some small scale studies showing that women's brain activity gets interrupted when a baby cries while men's brains don't. So...who knows. I'm just glad I wasn't pulling that completely out of thin air.

Maybe it's baby anything cries.

So, we are throwing some ideas around Chez Scrappy. Are there any Buffistas in Detroit or that area?