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Routine Care | Cry | Colic? | Different Meanings | Help Reduce

Different Meanings

One day, I was watching Oprah and she had on Priscilla Dunstan who said you can understand a baby’s cry.  She said the cries can be divided into five different types:

  1. NEH – Hunger (due to sucking reflex)
  2. OWH – Sleepy (like baby is yawning)
  3. HEH – Discomfort (diaper needs changed or hot/ cold)
  4. EAIR – Lower gas (may pull up legs as well)
  5. EH – Baby needs to burp

She said that these sounds are "actually sound reflexes" that will generally turn off after the first 3 months unless the cries are appropriately responded to. The baby may continue to make the sounds if it gets the response it wanted. The other important thing to note according to Dunstan is these sounds are more the "pre-cry" the beginning sounds the baby makes. If the baby is not attended to, then this "pre-cry" will turn into a full cry and the sounds will be harder to distinguish.

I believed this woman but I wasn’t sure I would be able to distinguish the difference with my baby.  Although, Erik and I were pretty sure that most of the time we could tell the difference.  The NEH and the OWH were probably the most distinguishable.

For more information please refer to this link within the Oprah.com web site.

Please refer to this link to refer directly to Dunstan's web site.

Works Cited

Oprah. "Amazing Medical Breakthroughs." OPRAH.COM. 7 Jan. 2010
<http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/oprahshow1_ss_20061113>.

Last updated: January 2010