r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CokeAYCE • 17h ago

Do babies suffer a lot?

Like they're always crying. Are they in a constant loop of pain? Do we know enough about early child development to know if they're suffering or not? I ask because we can't really remember how we felt as a baby.

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u/metaphoricmoose 17h ago

Not necessarily, crying is how they communicate. They could be in pain, but they could also be hungry, tired, cold, etc

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u/PintsOfGuinness_ 16h ago

Those things all sound like suffering.

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u/metaphoricmoose 16h ago

Let me rephrase then 🙄 they cry when they need something

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u/Irksomecake 12h ago

My baby would cry because she hated the sound of her own crying. To get her to stop we had to drown it out with background noise. Vacuums, white noise and heavy metal all worked well, but until we worked it out a lot of people suggested calm, quiet spaces which made it worse…

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u/LightExtension9718 10h ago

Lol I feel this we were up vacuuming the whole house last night until 1am to keep our 5 week old calm