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.
Tags: Cold and Flu. You probably never heard of this illness before you became a parent, but if your baby catches it, you may never forget it. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the most common lower respiratory infection in infants, and the most common reason for hospitalization in the first year. And unfortunately, now through early April is prime RSV season. For most kids who catch the virus, it's just a bad cold.