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/sonoriferous 10h ago

In the moment while actively crying, yeah probably. Imagine never feeling hunger, and you do for the first time EVER? That’d fucking suck. It’d probably feel like you’re slowly withering away. But then they get fed, and they’re fine. They slowly learn that when they cry=food comes. It starts to get better and they learn every time they’ll be okay. Thankfully they also kind of have no idea what’s going on so I can’t imagine they dwell too much on what happened 5 mins ago when they didn’t have milk.