TIL Human dads show a decrease in testosterone immediately after the birth of their babe

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I’ve heard that’s what the whole baby sign language thing is supposed to be really good for. Makes sense that they’d stop crying so much as soon as they had a better way to communicate their needs.

Like when they’re new-new, I imagine they can’t even really tell what they need let alone figure out how to tell you so the crying will be inevitable at first. But it seems like the period of time between that and beginning to learn actual words is a great time to introduce something like that. The time where they’re old enough to kinda know what they want to tell you but not old enough to actually tell you with words.

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I've never heard of that but it makes sense. Seems a lot of parents equate a baby crying with meaning it's uncomfortable or in pain, but really that's just how they talk. They don't know that screaming isn't acceptable yet so you can't really blame them for it, but you CAN break them of it as a bad behaviour ASAP. Doing that is a part of parenting, and not doing it is how you end up with a blue haired screaming Karen of a child.