I just had to share this...
Last week dd and I were visiting a friend and her babe, M, who is about 3 months old. Stella was happy and playful, freshly fed, clean diapered, even recently napped! But when she heard M crying, she paused, looked around the room until she spotted the source, and then over about 10 seconds, Stella's face slowly changed from happy to questioning, to a slight frown, to worried, to a full on wail of a cry. And it was a totally new cry! I call it her 'big girl' cry, a huffy, puffy, sniffly-snorty cry. Once M was latched on and feeding and quiet, I showed her to Stella, and only then was Stella soothed!
It was amazing, and it happened about 3 times that afternoon, everytime M cried, so did Stella, until M stopped.
So maybe every baby cries when they hear another, I don't know, but it was the first time I'd seen that kind of behavior in my girl, and it reinforced my sense of her awareness, and also showed me how much more little tiny babies can perceive than they are usually given credit for.
It was so sweet...my sensitive baby...
Last week dd and I were visiting a friend and her babe, M, who is about 3 months old. Stella was happy and playful, freshly fed, clean diapered, even recently napped! But when she heard M crying, she paused, looked around the room until she spotted the source, and then over about 10 seconds, Stella's face slowly changed from happy to questioning, to a slight frown, to worried, to a full on wail of a cry. And it was a totally new cry! I call it her 'big girl' cry, a huffy, puffy, sniffly-snorty cry. Once M was latched on and feeding and quiet, I showed her to Stella, and only then was Stella soothed!
It was amazing, and it happened about 3 times that afternoon, everytime M cried, so did Stella, until M stopped.
So maybe every baby cries when they hear another, I don't know, but it was the first time I'd seen that kind of behavior in my girl, and it reinforced my sense of her awareness, and also showed me how much more little tiny babies can perceive than they are usually given credit for.
It was so sweet...my sensitive baby...
: Imagine all that in the car, that's usually when it happens. 
