Why do BABIES cry when BORN?

Answer 1

They have liquid in their lungs so are forced to cry to get it all out and learn to breathe. Its a strange sensation for them so of course they aren't gonna be hugely happy!

Answer 2

Besides the aforementioned first breath, the birthing process is quite shocking for an infant.

Consider that the baby goes from an environment where it is roughly 99 degrees to one that is about 70 degrees. If you've ever forgotten your towel and had to step out of the shower into a cold room, you can relate to the temp drop.

The baby is tightly held by the walls of the uterus, a place where it has been for nine months. Following the birth, the baby no longer has that familiar surrounding. This is why they are wrapped up after they are cleaned.

The noise level is greatly increased.

The light level is suddenly increased, much like when you wake up in a dark room and turn on a bright light.

Given all of these factors combined, the whole process is rather traumatic to the infant. In return, they spend the next 18 years getting revenge. ; )

Answer 3

My daughter didn't cry until after she was : squirted in the eyes with some chemicals by a nurse....poked in the heal of her foot to get blood to test for diabetes....placed on a cold hard slab to get weighed... printed and tagged like a common criminal..wiped and disinfected like a dinner plate......passed around like a joint at a grateful dead concert....wrapped up like a burrito and had her picture taken....all this within a few seconds of being squeezed out of her warm , safe , home... she started to become a little out-spoken....11 years or so later now she has armed herself with the verbiage to fend-off most of those annoyances....and I made sure she knows how and will not think twice about using her thumb to gouge out your eye when words have little or no effect!!! So I guess what I'm getting to is that babies don't cry when born....they cry when they are messed with....only because they can't tell ya to "STEP-OFF!!!" and they can't yet swing a baseball bat!!!

Answer 4

If I were to give birth to a baby and it's just quiet, I'd be concerned beacuse it's as if the baby is dead or something is seriously wrong.
Babies cry because I think they are welcoming themselves ino the world so they have to cry. They just came from a warm and liquid place just to come out into dry air - that must be uncormfortable.

Answer 5

Are you kidding!! They have just been squeezed through something the size of a lemon, when they are the size of a melon.

They have been forced out of their nice, warm, comfortable room, (the only home they have ever known) and pushed and squeezed and forced out into a very cold very bright very scary world!!

Wouldn't you cry!!

It can take some babies quite a while to get over birth trauma so be very calm and very gentle with your baby and give it lots of cuddles so that it feels its been born into a better place than it left!!

Answer 6

It's all a bit of a traumatic shock for the poor baby (let alone the mother). My own belief in reincarnation gives me the fanciful belief that babies are born (reborn) with the temporary memory of their last life and are just trying to cry out -Oh nooo, not again!!!.

Answer 7

Hi Not all babies cry when born it's just a reaction to all the fuss, it does help to fill there lungs or clear mucus, but this isn't the reason.

Answer 8

let me ask you this. your in a lovely safe warm environment and have been for nine months and then you spend up to 24 hours being shoved through a hole the size of a drainpipe , being squashed and pulled. then some git smacks you one. being minutes old you are hardly in a position to write a letter of complaint to your mp. so what else can u do but cry.
not all babies do by the way my first daughter was pretty quiet but this may have been because her mom had pethidine during labour which transfers to the baby.

Answer 9

Maybe it's because they feel something different. There're sudden change that happens in the transition from mothers' tummy to the outside world. Maybe they feel that somehow the world would be a hard thing for them. It's not peace anymore like when they're still inside.

Answer 10

One to clear their lungs and air passage as they have been living in water for 9 months or so and two if your head had been stuck in a crack that size for so long I think you would cry too!

Answer 11

Its to clear all the gack from their lungs so they can breath. Its why the doctor might slap the baby on the bottom to make him/her cry if they are not already crying.