There's not a lot of comfort for new parents in recent studies about crying babies. You may be able to spot the parents of babies with colic. They're the ones with dark bags under their eyes. Colic is intensive crying for no apparent cause that occurs in the first couple of months of an infant's life.
Parents try all sorts of things to get their crying babies to be quiet and go to sleep.
But researchers in Finland reported recently that none of these methods seem to have an impact. They compared soothing methods such as massage and vibrating cribs and found that no interventions had a significant impact on the amount of time babies cried. The good news is that babies usually grow out of colic after they're about two months old. But researchers in Australia say teething just gets a bad rap. There's no direct correlation between teething and a number of problems that are generally associated with it, such as crankiness, fever and crying.