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.
Certainly, infants cry when they are in pain, but they are not always in pain when they cry. They can cry for many reasons. The fifth feature is that crying can go on and on for long periods of time. In fact, infants cry more and for longer periods in the first three or four months than they ever do again. In one study, the average length of crying times was 35 minutes. However, the âaverageâ includes both very long and very short crying times. In this study, the lengths of crying times were often 5 minutes and sometimes over 2 hours. As with all other features of crying, this can vary a lot between one infant and the other.