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.
When parents tell me that their baby is crying all the rime, the first thing I suspect is some kind of gastric problem: wind, reflux (baby heart-burn) or colic (as opposed to either of the first two conditions, which are sometimes mistaken for colic). Infants digestive systems are very immature.