Why do people say..

[GoBrookeYourself]

That after a few weeks you’ll be able to differentiate between the different cries your baby has. Because DS2 is 8 weeks and they all still sound the same to me. Which is why I just picked him up for a feed when he started crying, thought I’d do a quick nappy change because it felt quite wet and then he projectile pooped all over me, including into my bra and all over the sheets. This could all have been avoided if i COULD tell the difference between his cries and knew to stay away from his nappy for 10 minutes so he could poo. Merry Christmas!

Please make me feel better by telling me the things that completely evaded/baffled you that people told you would be true and definitely weren’t.

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Good thing is now she recognises it herself and shovels food in!

Have a Google of "Dunstan baby language". I am sceptical of most baby trends like wonder weeks, sleep training, BLW, but my older child did and now my newborn definitely does a "nair, nair" type cry for hunger, a lot of eeeehhh squeaky type cries for gas (along with back arching and legs drawn up to chest), and irrational crying with no particular sound for tiredness.

But really they will only want one of a few things: milk, a poo, or to be held/go to sleep.

Oh yeah and the rooting around is a hunger cue, he reminds me of a truffle hunting pig 😆

Nah I couldn’t.

@Miscarriagesucks2020 oh yes the noise they make when they’re rooting is adorable. Mine does a little head bob too from side to side like a crazy person haha

Oh and licks my nipple but that might just be him it doesn’t seem like something other babies do lol

Mine cried almost solidly for two years, I never had the faintest idea what he was crying about.

@GoBrookeYourself yep mine licks too.. bit weird 😂

@ThisIsTrifficult

I didn't have this power either. Also that one where you wake when your baby makes a noise? Perhaps some evolutionary thing to protect them from a ravenous tiger? I don't have that either.

I think I just became used to the routine. Cry, oh, it must be food time. Etc...

Haha! My first night in the Mattie unit after I had dS I was shaken awake by a rather cross midwife to tell me my baby was crying and had woken every mother on the ward but me. He was less than 2 feet away😂

Omg I have always thought this OP

I’ve found my people! @Mochudubh you wouldn’t sleep through mine, he sounds like he’s being exorcised with the noises he makes. I have no idea who made up the phrase ‘sleeping like a baby’ but they sure as hell weren’t basing it off a child like mine.

@Tal45 I think we have similar children. He cries sometimes (a lot) when he’s on my nipple and hungry and I’m like it’s right THERE and it’s your ONLY survival instinct, use it!

I think sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. By about 12 weeks I had an idea which ones were hungry and which other discomfort, not always accurate but a vague guide.