Since babies haven't learned to talk yet, crying is the primary way your baby communicates a want, need or discomfort.
Some Reasons Why Babies Cry
- Startled or frightened by loud noise
- When your baby wakes in a place other than where he or she went to sleep
- Over tired or over stimulated
- Afraid of dark or an unfamiliar person
- Moving and startling your almost asleep baby from your arms to her or his bed.
- Wants to be nurtured by being held
- Handled too rough or too much
- Needs to release tension
- Hasn’t learned to self-calm or colicky
- Sibling mishandled baby, pinched or hit
- Foot or arm caught in or bumped into something
- Frustrated because you don’t get it.
- Hungry or thirsty
- Gas or air in stomach- needs to be burped
- Diaper rash or soiled diaper
- Too hot or too cold
- Sick or in physical pain or allergic to something
- Formula doesn’t agree with your baby
- Itchy clothing or clothing tags irritating
- Something in your baby’s eye
- Sun in your baby’s eyes or lights too bright
- The pacifier fell out of your baby’s mouth
- Teething, unpleasant smell or insect bite
- Feeding solid foods or sugar too early
The first 12 of these reasons are helped or prevented if you follow our suggested bedtime routine and/or play our Heartbeat Lullabies