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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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