What’s the secret of knowing one baby cry from the other? Most mothers use their inner sense of their babies’ daily schedule to help them, along with observing baby behavior in its everyday context.
If the baby’s been asleep for three and a half hours and he wakes up crying, he’s probably hungry. If the baby’s been up for three hours and he seems fitful and keeps batting at his ear and mildly fussing, he’s probably ready to nurse off to sleep. If he wakes up in the middle of the night with a loud, piercing scream, he’s probably in pain from a diaper pin pressing into his side, a string from his sleeper wrapped around his toe, a bubble of gas trapped in his stomach, or some other inner or outer pain.
