SOOTHING THE BABY’S CRY

Samantha's story

"My Little Sea Shell"

Katerina, 32, a mother of two small children, works as an accountant in a financial company. Born in the Ukraine, she came to England six years ago with her husband Ken and son Daniel. Four years after they came to England and settled down, baby Samantha was born. She was a sweet and lovely child, apart from the first three months when she cried a lot. It was a hard time for both parents, as they had to get up many times during the night and see to the baby’s needs. She only seemed to stop crying when one or other parent held her, so of course, it became very difficult to get on with even mundane household tasks, and the baby was easily disturbed as soon as they tried to put her down. They did try putting her down to let her cry herself to sleep, but the child’s anxiety and noise didn’t abate. Each day Katerina and Ken were very exhausted.

‘It didn’t work…’, ‘Yes it did, but he couldn’t see the results because he fell asleep first!’

International composer and family friend John Levine, heard about their problems with Samantha and gave them a gift of his Alphamusic CD, ‘My little Sea Shell’. He told them that the CD helps little babies who cry a lot to calm down. Ken, unlike Katerina was skeptical and was sure that playing a CD would not help. “I didn’t expect that it was going to work right away,” said Katerina. “Let’s try and see what happens,” she said to her husband that day. Samantha was lying in her cot, fractious and crying and not settling down after her feed and bath. Katerina reached for ‘My Little Sea Shell’ and played it quietly on the CD player. A few minutes later the room became quiet, and baby Samantha stopped crying. Katerina couldn’t believe her own eyes, because her husband Ken was sleeping! Fifteen minutes after him, Samantha fell asleep too. “This was unbelievable. The Alphamusic really worked! Not only for my baby but also for my husband!” explains Katerina. When John met Ken a few days later, he asked him about the CD, but Ken was his usual skeptical self and answered that it didn’t work. John was a little surprised and said that maybe it doesn’t work for all babies. When he met Katerina the next day, she explained to him why Ken couldn’t see the results. “My husband simply fell asleep before Samantha did and couldn’t see the effects,” said Katerina. They started to laugh.

Katerina continued to use the ‘My Little Sea Shell’ whenever Samantha cried and had trouble sleeping during the night. She gradually became calmer and fell asleep more easily each night until she outgrew her night terrors and the need for the CD, and somehow the family lost the CD. Katerina often thinks that it would have been great to have the CD back when their son Daniel was little because he, like Samantha, cried a lot during the night.
During the two years period of using this CD, the results were always the same, and their baby was calmer, more relaxed and stopped crying a lot at night. The parents were not woken up several times each night and they all had a good night sleep. Katerina recommends John’s CD to other parents because she strongly believes that his Alphamusic is helping.