is WAAA, WAAA, WAAAA a mantra cry??? Im confused!

[marylou]

Hi all,

I am completed lost when it comes to id'ing a mantra cry...does the volume increase if it is....and it is just waaa waaa waaa over and over....

Are you just supposed to leave the baby when it is this kind of cry??

sorry for so many questions....

Thanks again!!!

[Deb_in_oz]

i know how confusing it is - i thought the wah wah wah is hunger as far as Tracey wrote in first book.  do you have that one - it goes over each cry and the descriptions ar egood.

[Colesmom]

i think my lo created a new cry today.  either that or he is so hoarse from crying he just sounds different :cry:

i don't know his hunger cry.  i had him plugged up so much with his paci i'm just getting to know his cries.  i'm almost tempted to let him go too long eating so that i can identify it.  i know that's cruel, but then at least i'd know what the heck is going on.

i should go.  i just ate dinner and i'm going to nap before the DF.

maybe i'll go back to BW and read the cry descriptions.  i haven't read them since before DS was born.

again, hang in there.

[Jamom]

Marylou, I think I know what you are talking about and when my lo does it, I think it is a mantra cry.  He's not really upset just kinda "yelling" at me, like hey mom get back here.  Personally, I have left him as he seems to need to do it when he is overtired to get back to sleep.

[Deb_in_oz]

on p87 of the original BW book it says for hunger :
"slight coughlike sound in the back of the throat; then out comes the first cry. it's short to begin with then more steady: waa, waa, waa rhythm"

i have always found this to be true.

p.86 the overtired one is "starts as cranky irregular frequency fussing, but if not stopped quickly, it scalates to an overtired cry: first 3 short wails followed by a hard cry, then 2 short breaths and a longer, even louder cry.  Usually they cry and cry and if left alone will eventually fall alseep"

HTH