Great examples from others here, this is a fun thread.

When doing the BF group teaching on our ward, I go through baby's hunger
cues, pointing out that only the last two, the 'mammalian distress call'
(short, high-pitched "uh -uh- uh" sounds) and crying, make any noise.  I
describe waking, looking about, mouthing hands, licking them, drooling,
rooting, moving toward a possible breast, calling and crying.
I say that because babies are programmed to survive, they do whatever works,
and if they discover that *only* crying results in being fed, it doesn't
take them long to drop all the polite foreplay and cut to the chase, as it
were, crying insistently as soon as they feel the slightest bit hungry.
This seems to make the lightbulbs go on over most parents' heads, especially
when I ask them if they think a meal tastes better if they have been so
hungry that they cried, before they got to eat.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway, where the story about how life-threatening it is to
share a bed with a baby has just hit the news today, ugh.

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