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Questions if babies automatically know to cry for their parents when they are lost.

NAS73676

Are most infants able to know that they are lost and cry for their parents? When I was a baby, psychologists did an evaluation, they tested if I would cry and my parents were gone, and I did not cry and they concluded that have a developmental delay.

My parents were not really gone though, it was just a test and they were in another room.

  • the knowing comes from experience

    so, if you were never left alone, you cannot know it yet,

    so first time it happens you will probably be unsure,

    than cry next twenty times,.

    than get over it - fu.k the parents, i don't care if they leave me alone, I can play by myself

    at that age not knowing because of lack of experience is even more valid, because you have no influence over what you are experiencing 

    not knowing means you cannot act upon it

    but:

    babies will cry when:

    hungry

    made poo

    made loo

    need a drink

    made a preference for a toy that was taken away

    touched something feeling wrong, e.g. to hot. to cold. to moist. to rough

    unfamiliar face in sight, closer than 1m in their field of view, during the first year

    etc

    won't cry:

    when unable to, e.g. stuck on their belly with pillow in their face

    swallowed something to big

    and it can go on etc