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Health

How to Tell Teething Apart from Other Causes of Crying

Teething gets blamed for an enormous amount of crying between 6 and 12 months. Sometimes it's the right answer. Often it isn't — and the reason that m...

6 min read

Health

First Sounds: Newborn Crying

Crying is the only language a newborn has. Most parents arrive home expecting to crack the code within a week and feel quietly inadequate when they're...

6 min read

Health

Proven Ways to Help a Baby with Colic

Colic is one of the most exhausting and bewildering experiences of early parenting. When a baby screams for hours and nothing seems to help, it's easy...

4 min read

Emotions

Why an Infant May Appear Fussy

'Fussy' is an imprecise word that covers a wide range of infant behaviours, from difficult-to-soothe general distress to specific patterns of inconsol...

3 min read

Emotions

Stress in Infants: Causes and Manifestations

Stress in infants is not a metaphor. The physiological stress response — the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis producing cortisol — is fully functio...

3 min read

Emotions

How Infants Respond to Overtiredness and Overstimulation

An overtired baby and an overstimulated baby look almost identical from across the room: fussy, rigid, crying past the point of exhaustion, and someho...

4 min read

Emotions

Why Newborns Respond to Stress Through Crying

A newborn's cry is one of the most biologically gripping sounds humans can hear — engineered by evolution to be nearly impossible to tune out. Once yo...

4 min read

Daycare

Why Children Cry During Separation

When your child cries at drop-off, it's hard to feel anything but heartbroken. But that crying is actually evidence of healthy development — a brain t...

7 min read

Parenting

Understanding Your Baby's Cries: What They Mean and How to Respond

The first time you sit on the bedroom floor at 2am with a screaming, freshly-fed, freshly-changed baby and no idea what's wrong, you understand why th...

7 min read

Emotions

Separation Anxiety in Babies and Toddlers: What It Is and What Helps

The moment a baby who was happy in anyone's arms suddenly screams when passed to another person, or when their parent leaves the room — often arriving...

4 min read

Health

Understanding Newborn Crying: Types of Cries and What They Mean

One of the most persistent myths about newborn care is that a parent who pays close attention can learn to distinguish a hunger cry from a tired cry f...

7 min read

Parenting

How Much Do Newborns Cry? Understanding the Normal Range

Almost every new parent has the same shock around 6 to 8 weeks: the baby cries far more than they were warned about, often inconsolably, often in the...

7 min read

Health

Colic in Newborns: What Helps During Those Long Crying Episodes

You have a healthy, well-fed baby who screams every evening for hours, refuses to be put down, and looks like they're in agony. Nothing you do helps f...

8 min read