In a prospective study of 23 newborns with preauricular skin lesions, four (17 percent) had abnormal findings on brain-evoked response audiometry. 1 Another study of 178 newborns with isolated preauricular tags found that 23 (13 percent) had mild to moderate sensorineural hearing impairment.
Hunger is one of the most common reasons why your baby will cry (CKS 2014), especially if she's a newborn. The younger your baby is, the more likely it is that she's hungry. Your baby's stomach is small and can't hold very much. So it won't take long before it empties.
The babies are not in pain, Dr. Barr said. A colicky cry sounds the same as any other cry. About 60 percent of crying is due to fussiness, 30 percent is related to genuine upset and 10 percent is emblematic of true colic, which means that it is unsoothable. Unsoothable crying is torture for parents, Dr. Barr said.