-- A --
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Crying
Crying is the way your baby communicates his need to be fed, held, changed and attended to. Your baby does not cry to get back at you, to get his way or to make you angry. You cannot spoil your baby younger than six months old and attending to your baby when he cries will not teach him to cry more.
Your infant may go through a developmental phase when crying increases and she may be difficult to soothe. Respond to your baby's needs-check to see if she has a soiled diaper, needs to be fed, has a fever, or is uncomfortable and try to comfort her. If that doesn't work, try soothing methods such as singing, rocking, bathing, playing music or swaddling.
When comforting and soothing methods don't work, it is very important to have a plan to cope with your own frustration from your baby's inconsolable crying. It's OK to put your baby down in a safe place and walk away for a few minutes. It is also important to some time for your self that will relieve your stress, such as listening to music, exercising, meditating, watching television, showering or calling a friend.
Inform anyone else that cares for your infant that crying may not mean there is something wrong with him. Share tips with other caregivers on ways to soothe your baby and ways to relieve the frustration that may be triggered when he cries.
