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.
Thiscontagious crying is the earliest form of empathy, the sharing of another's feelings, which is thebasis for helping and a variety of other prosocial behaviors. The following discussion attempts tosummarize some of what is known about the development of these complex human emotionsduring the early childhood period.