I was having trouble getting Ava to sleep tonight so I tried all of the normal strategies -- swaddling, the pacifier, singing to her, burping her, rocking her, changing her diaper, feeding her, and any number of other techniques that have been recommended to us. Nothing seemed to be working and Ava was still being fussy.
Finally, I took her downstairs and put her in the bouncy chair. That calmed her down a little but what really seemed to put her to sleep was watching the video from earlier today of Chairman Bernanke's Federal Open Markets Committee press conference. This is a great discovery and something that is not suggested in any of the baby books we have! The Fed website has on it video from all of the FOMC press conferences so I have a lot of material to go through with Ava before we run out.
This also gives me ideas on a range of other sleep inducing materials -- including Chairman Bernanke's four part lecture series on the history of the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. I'll be experimenting to see whether there is any advantage of the sleep-inducing nature of video on monetary policy compared to, for example, video on fiscal policy and the fiscal cliff. My theory is that watching video from either the President or the Speaker of the House on the status of fiscal cliff negotiations will not be sleep inducing but instead would be upsetting. But I'll have to test this theory. For now, I'm going to go take our sleeping Ava back to her bassinet.
J.
Do you think the key is monetary policy or Chairman Bernanke himself? And if it's Bernanke himself, could this be a post-Fed career? -- the baby sleep market can be very lucrative.
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