To answer your question, Anonymous,
the original question at hand (that we're all supposedly discussing here LOL) was... «My husband, mom, and mother - in - law are all pressuring me to stop breastfeeding my 13 - month - old...» So that would be the child referred to.
To answer the
question at hand, we don't need a perfect reconstruction of the
original signal, but rather to identify large transients and estimate their magnitudes / slopes.