Crying and fussiness are common in babies, but frequent, intense episodes may signal colic. Paying attention to patterns and possible triggers can help you figure out what works best to calm them.

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One of the most common questions new parents have is how often their baby should eat. This is especially true as parents struggle with the formula shortage and wonder if their babies are getting ...

When your baby cries, you pick them up. And sometimes you wind up holding them a lot more often than you put them down. Inevitably, this will spark some criticism, often from a well-meaning relative, ...

When Evgeni Machavariani and his wife became new parents, they couldn’t agree on why their baby was crying. Was the baby hungry? Wet? Tired? For most couples, this situation might result in standard ...

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile nestlings synchronizing their hatching and pushing the parent to dig the nest, ...