The crying of newly born babies

Continuous Interactional Monitoring in the Neonate

“…On the basis of the striking and consistently reduced motility in the home situation, it seemed evident to us that any effort to compare activity output between infants would have to take the caretaking environment into consideration. The findings reported in the early papers by Irwin 4 and by Aldrich et al 2 made the same point. They found, by averaging group data on neonates observed continuously, that anything which consistently delayed caretaking response at a particular time of day was associated with an increase in the activity or crying measure during that time.…”

Normal Neonatal Behavior Patterns: The First Week of Extrauterine Life

“…While the daily average total of sleep began at a relatively high level, dipped low on days 3 and 4, and then settled at a middle level for the rest of the week, the daily average total of fussing began at a low level, climbed slightly to a plateau on days 3 and 4, and then settled at a mid‐level for the remainder of the week. The average time spent in fussing for the whole week was 1 3/4 hours, a figure comparable to Brazelton's median of 1 3/4 hours of crying for the second week of life and Aldrich's mean of nearly two hours (117 minutes) of crying for the first eight days 24 25 . The increase in fussing generally occurred on the same day as the discharge from the hospital.…”

The pediatrician looks at personality.

“…Summary: I have attempted to show that in studies of human personality the method of direct observation of babies has definite advantages. T h e following points have been emphasized: 1) The newborn personality is easy to observe and chart. 2) The forces of growth and development make important modifications in the observable human personality.…”