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With the objective of helping diagnose some pathologies in recently born babies, we present the experiments and results obtained in the classification of infant cry using a variety of single classifiers, and ensembles from the combination of them. Three kinds of cry were classified: normal, hypoacoustic (deaf), and asphyxia. The feature vectors were formed by the extraction of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). The vectors were then processed and reduced through the application of five statistics operations, namely: minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation and variance. LDA, a data reduction technique is implemented with the purpose of comparing the results of our proposed method. Four supervised machine learning methods including Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, J48, Random Forest and Naive Bayes are used. The ensembles tested were combinations of these under different approaches like Majority Vote, Staking, Bagging and Boosting.