Crying - do all mums except me recognise a different one for each need???

[EvangelinesMum]

My DD is 8mo now but I still struggle to know what she wants when she cries. It seems other mums know by the type of crying what their LO's want but all DDs crying sounds the same to me!
Am I alone in this? Should I really know the difference by now? Its just trial and error for me most days.

ooooooh how interesting. I think I recognise at least two of those sounds. Will be putting this to the test tomorrow.

Backtracking slightly but just had to say to bink I'm pretty sure you are right in your theory IME. I have two like yours (i.e one of each type).

The only other explanation I can think of is that since I uderstood my DD1 from day 1, I would say to her when she cried 'oh you're tired' or 'you're hungry' so she learnt that that when she felt a particular way, that was tired or hungry and she became able to vocalise that better as she was older. That doesn't explain how I got it right so early on though does it (not down to natural amazing parenting abilities I can tell you!)

I also think there is something on the Dunstan baby language thing too though.

If none if this makes sense I use the excuse of extreme pregnancy brain .

Evangalinesmum - I still dont understand DD2s cries at 19 months, thankfully she now has develoed the power of speech, but when she isn't happy for any reason she often prefers to revert back to the various screams

My baby also does a little fake cough when he's tired. It's so funny.

I read about Dunstan Baby as well, the UK site is www.dunstanbaby.com, they have UK stockists too