A baby is an innocent creature coming to a family as a gift from God. It is a gift since not every family can get it easily. The coming makes a family happy and blessed. However, the coming also makes a family get additional responsibility in taking care of or bringing up the baby. Crying is a natural character of every baby for he or she has no ability to utter verbally yet. So, the cry is a baby’s way of communicating.

In order that a mother understands and can make use of her baby’s cry to interact, she needs to be able to identify what each cry means. As a matter of fact, when a baby is crying, most mothers tend to simplify the respond only by calming him or her down. They have no better idea about what the best thing to understand the cry. This is caused by two different ways of communication: the mothers use words to communicate while the babies use cry to do so. These two different worlds can be bridged if a mother understands what the meaning of baby’s crying.

Priscilla Dunstan, an Australian mother, has revealed the secret behind a baby’s cry. She describes that all babies aged 0 – 3 months use the same kind of cry as the language to communicate. She has tested more than 1000 babies around the world and found out many kinds of cries. But from those various cries, she simplifies into five understandable and defined cries. The following is what each cry is like and what it means.

1.Neh…neh…neh… means “I am hungry”.
2.Owh…owh…owh… means “I am sleepy”.
3.Heh…heh…heh… means “I am experiencing discomfort”.
4.Eair…eair…eair… means “I have lower gas”.
5.Eh…eh…eh… means “I need to burp”.

So, a baby is crying to communicate with his or her mother. In addition, she or he cries to attract attention. Similarly to adults, a baby does not like to be ignored. If adults scream or yell when being ignored, babies cry.

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