Waaaaaaaaah! A scream pierces the quiet in the house. Is it something
urgent? Or can you finish doing the dishes before you wander in to
check on the baby, who maybe will calm himself down in the meantime?
That’s what every new parent asks him or herself when an infant
cries. There’s some perfect balance between teaching baby to self soothe
and ignoring his needs, between responding when baby needs you and
overreacting to every little noise. Finding that balance, now, is a lot
harder than it would seem.
Experienced moms always claim they can tell the difference between
different types of baby cries. But when I was a new mom, I found I had
no idea how to tell one from the other. The slightest cry would send me
into a panic: SHE NEEDS ME! Well, maybe. Or maybe not. If I’d been able
to tell when she really did, things would have been a lot more serene.
And so, with the help of baby expert Amy Spangler, president of
Babygooroo.com, we asked how, exactly an infant’s cries differ from each
other. She says the question’s a bit of a red herring (“watch for cues,
not for cries; crying is a late signal for many forms of baby
distress”) but that some cries are pretty distinct. Here’s her take on
what your baby is saying with her cries.
Read whole article here: blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/your-babys-cries-mean-something-how-to-tell-what/#comment-52297265
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