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.
And designed them to cry when they need us. 1  The faster you pick up an infant, the more independent toddlers they become. 2  The faster moms picked up infants, the less babies cried. 3  Babies who were picked up fast grew up to be the most independent and curious toddlers.