Author: Arnault-Quentin Vermillet, Christine E. Parsons, Joshua C. Skewes
Author title:  Interacting Minds Center, Department of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Culture, Cognition and Computation, Aarhus University, Denmark
Description: There is a general consensus that crying makes up a substantial proportion of infants’ early communicative repertoire. The authors examine what is currently known about the range of ‘normal’ crying. This is difficult to establish because of the wide variability in cry patterns recorded from healthy infants even within the same families. In addition, across countries, cultural differences in parenting practices and expectations are also thought to shape the amount of crying infants do. Nevertheless excessive crying is a cause of distress for many parents and some strategies for coping are put forward.

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