Newborn babies often cry when they want one of their basic needs met. Here's what to do if your newborn won't stop crying.

Before they learn to speak, babies cry to communicate. If you listen closely, your baby may be sending you clues about their needs with each sound they make. There are lots of reasons babies cry and ...

The sound slices through the quiet of the night: a muffled sob, then a hiccup, quickly escalating into a high-pitched, frantic wail. For any parent or caregiver, this is a familiar, urgent call to ...

Before young children learn to speak, crying is their only means of vocal communication. But do adults know when a baby is in pain as opposed to being mildly uncomfortable? A new study finds that the ...

Struggling to soothe a crying baby can be debilitating, but new research suggests it might be more out of parents' control than they think. A new Swedish twin study has found that how much an infant ...

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, ...

Sleep deprivation can do crazy things to a new parent — ever put milk in the pantry? We've been there. If you have heard your baby crying, sprung from bed, and dashed over the crib only to realize he ...

Cassidy Frizzell, 30, cradles her 1-month-old son while wearing over-ear headphones in the follow-up clip. In the caption, ...