What are they doing to me?!?!?!

A couple weeks ago I signed Aydan up for a Nutrition & Development study for breastfed babies at OSU. They observe the babies at 3, 6 & 9 months as well as test the mothers milk & blood as they are trying to determine the effects of major metals on brain development.

Well to do this they monitor his vital signs while he watches a computer screen with random pictures of people on it. Then they put an electrode cap on his head and test his brain waves while he listens to different sound through baby headphones.


For me this was very exciting because I'm very interested in how babies learn so the students doing this study were able to explain alot about their findings so far. Plus the picture make for fun scrapbooking! For Aydan it was exciting because he had a whole bunch of people paying attention to just him! He only got upset once and I think that was from wanting to nurse but the sound from the headphones were making it very hard to relax.