DECRYPTING BABY’S CRYING SOUNDS MEANING: 5 common reasons your baby cries & how to soothe your baby

INTRODUCTION

Having a hard time controlling your baby’s cries? Baby crying makes you panic and at loss, sometimes overtly frustrated? Are there times where you cannot identify the source of baby’s distress when they turn into wailing machines?

You see, babies’ main communication language is by crying and making noises that are difficult to decode and interpret. Once mothers are able to comprehend the meaning of the baby’s cry, it is easier to comfort her midget munchkins. Deciphering and decrypting your baby’s cries to attend to their needs is a challenging task for new mothers at the initial stage of the baby’s life, especially when baby disturbs your good night sleep with his or her cries. Cracking the code of baby’s crying sound differences should be distinguished at the initial sounds, not when the sounds intensifies into shrieking wails.

Theoretically, studies from Dunstan Baby Language have proven that every babies use the universal categorized types of crying sounds to express themselves at prior few months of life despite the racial and personality differences. So, if you successfully to unravel the meanings behind every distinct baby crying sounds, it will be easier for you to sharpen your babysitting skills such as determine causal factors like baby sleeping problems when you find your baby crying at night. This blog will bring you new and inexperienced mothers on a tour on how to manage your baby efficiently and distinguish their crying sounds differences, so let’s take an in-depth look into it.

1. I’m so sleepy, crib please (Owh)

Infants in general have a natural talent when it comes to sleeping, as this is the pilot precursor of their physical and mental developmental stages. These little bundles of joy are real sleepyheads who need frequent and more power nap moments. Yet, these bundles of joy won’t maintain their joy for long if they are feeling drowsy. Crying sound impulse ‘Owh’ as sleepiness indication mimics closely to a yawn sound. It usually comes along with rubbing eyes and nose, accompanied by continuous yawns and whiny fusses. At times, babies also try to arch their backs to indicate they want sleeping position. Also, baby’s mouth will form an “O” letter shape.

2. I’m so hungry, nom nom please (Neh)

This crying sound “Neh” is the easiest to distinguish, whereby it has the rhythmic and repetitive alarm patterns until you respond to the sounds. The first instinct when a baby is hungry when the baby starts sucking their fingers or fists, making sucking sounds or mouth movements. With this action comes whimpers and lip smacking to gain your attention. Plus, baby will turn their focus to milk formulas or food’s directions such as breast’s direction. When you ignore his or her hungry or thirsty whimpers, the crying sound will increase to demand more attention from you until you meet baby’s request to be fed.

3. I’m uncomfortable, comfy me please (Heh)

Your little one could be having wet diapers. They could be also telling you that they are feeling stuffy and too cold, or having itches. It can also be that the baby’s sleeping position or the surfaces they are lying on are a discomfort to them. Another common factor is that their sense of sight is overwhelmed by blinding lights. Moreover, it could also be due to uncomfortable or tight clothings. The “Heh” sound which they release usually sounds like a person catching short breaths. It’s time to be their personal assistants to make them as comfortable as possible. This repetitive “Heh” sounds are accompanied scrunchy expressions, hands batting, legs squirming and grunting noises, and baby will make lots of restless movements before bawling on top of their lungs. If your baby has already been fed but still making crying sounds like this, then this sound that he or she makes would be the sign that baby needs to burp.

Important note: There are also times that this “Heh” crying sound indicates that they baby is unwell, for instance having fever or breathing problems. Listen intently for the soft and low-pitched whimpering noises, like they have no energy left to make sounds or cry anymore. For this, it shows your baby needs medical attention.

4. I’m in pain, help me now please (Eairh)

Painful cries “Eairh” is the most uncontrollable ear-splitting sound, scary and heartbreaking to hear at times. This type of crying usually sounded like distressed SOS signals which requires parental urgent and immediate attention, whereby this type of crying is the hardest to console. Additional hints that shows that they’re in pain is that they will curl their legs upwards or cringe their little fists, with narrowed eye slits and frowning expressions. The most common pains they have at this stage is colic or gas. Pacifier works charms in assisting your baby in passing out gas from baby’s bloated tummy. The pacifier sucking reflex has the dual action functions in calming your midget and also moving the trapped gas blockages downwards. At this point, feeding is the most difficult task for parents because baby might refuse being fed, or baby might suck milk formulas for a minute or so and still continue bawling.

If it’s not due to colic or gas, but due to other reasons like teething or a baby clothes’ price tag poking his or her back. If none of the above fits your baby’s painful banshee-like crying reasons, it is good to check with other mothers whom you know of, such as friends, or if they cannot give hints to your baby’s crying problems, then it’s time to visit a healthcare provider or pediatrician to identify the root cause of your baby’s distressing painful cries to solve your problems once for all.

CLOSING STATEMENT…

If you are able to analyze and catch your baby’s crying sound patterns, it won’t be that hard at all to manage your problems in managing your baby from crying every now and then. As crying is the only way for baby to let out their feelings and messages, thus it is a natural for babies to cry, considering their “language skills” are primitive and inferior in this way. Just cut them some slack or benefit of the doubt, and remember that these babies are not just making random tantrums to gain attention for no apparent reasons, because babies are too young in their mentalities to even know how to be unreasonable or merciless to you.

Likewise, it’s not your fault that babies cry all the time, because this is the only method they use to communicate with you. The reason babies are often referred as crying machines is simply because they are interactive forms of living beings, just like us who are growing up or have grown to certain stages of life. So, take it easy and slowly build yourself up to be a specialist in decrypting and cracking the code of the babies’ different crying sounds to know what message contents that they are trying to convey to you.

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