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[rickbot]

Paul and I popped round to Chateau Seamus on Monday evening to catch a quick glance of the McCauley twins before they head off on their road trip north. We were each assigned a twin to hold, but within five minutes they'd start howling and we'd have to hand them back to be placated. Once quietened, we'd take hold of them again and so the cycle of

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[vardebedian]

The number of hours I have spent these past (almost exactly! Happy 7-week-birthday ickles!) 7 weeks carrying them around various local parks because it's the only thing that quietens them is incalculable. In fact it's worse than that, it's probably like 50 hours or something. The good bit is that I like wandering around local parks with my ickles. The worrying bit is that I can't tell why it makes them quiet. Are they suddenly perfectly content? Terrified by the noise and the light? Befuddled into dumb incomprehension by the carbon monoxide? Merely relieved to be free, however briefly, of the cloying miasma of nappies and milk? It's a puzzle, and one I will never solve since they can convey nothing and by the time they can they will have forgotten it all.

[rickbot]

Quite possibly its the general rise in background noise - cars, people, etc. All babies quieten down when there's good, meaningless white noise playing.

[elaine314]

Suspect Rick is right that it's the noise and therefore are worried about what to do in the middle of Northumberland National Park. I've heard of baby-calming CDs, but fear they don't include police sirens, motorbikes etc.

[rickbot]

While fewer cars and people in Northumberland National Park than Turnpike Lane, possibly more babbling brooks, trees swaying in the wind and radios which can be deftly turned to white noise?