We're very lucky.
Jack is the sort of child
we all assume we'll have
when we decide to have children,
and the sort of child
less experienced parents
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Friday, Feb. 06, 2004 - Dad
Jack�s love affair with music began in-utero.
Misti began to notice increased activity when she was near a music source.
With the aid of a daddy mike I managed to sing him the ballad of Mad John by the Small Faces, a simple Celtic style ditty with the lilt of a lullaby that two of his brothers and many of his cousins went to sleep to.
I also managed to read him some Banjo Patterson, and Kipling. Misti played classical music for him often.
From that time onwards,(I expect we started this at about the 5th month of pregnancy) he always responded to rhythm and music, and most especially, to Dad�s voice.
On the day that he was born, Jack was in a lot of pain, and it did not seem to ease for many hours. We decided to get the weights and measures and blood tests over with while he was still screaming. As I spoke to him softly, in the same manner I had done in-utero, he began to calm down. Keeping a melodic timbre to my voice and being mindful of rhythm helped a lot.
By the time the tests were over, he was calm, though still in pain. As he took his first studied look at his new world, I was able to hand him to his Mamma. As she spoke softly and sweetly to him, and gently swayed, he calmed down further and realized all was well in his world.
Jack�s entry into this world was not as easy as we might have hoped. However, through the static of pain and the frenetic energy of his new environment, melody and rhythm gave him something familiar to hold on to.
He has loved melody and rhythm ever since.
