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"A portrait of Ana every week for a year."

Babies cry. That's what they do.
Ana cries, but fortunately for us, she doesn't have that insatiable constant crying that makes us want to pack her up and return her! She cries when she needs to cry. We don't let it bother us and even let her cry when we know she's fine but just wants to let out steam. She's at 7 weeks and has been increasingly fussy in the late afternoon, I guess it's normal.  

A friend told me about Priscilla Dunstan who paid attention to her own child's cries and discovered that he would make the same sounds for certain situations. She summed it up to 5 different sounds babies make to communicate their needs: 

• neh = hungry
• owh = sleepy 
• heh = discomfort (temperature, clothing, diaper, etc.)
• eair = lower gas
• eh = burp (air in the upper part of the chest)

I can easily identify eh and neh, but the rest I still have a hard time figuring them out.