Those crocodile tears rolling down Latisha’s face say it all. “Antoine cries all the time, and so do I!” this young mother reports. I watch as her new baby seems to wind up for a big one. His face gets red, his hands start to tremble, and his legs stiffen. This mother never imagined how overwhelmed she would feel when her tiny newborn enters the “Rebooting Zone”– fussing or crying. Most normal, healthy babies begin to cry more around 42 weeks gestation, or two weeks after birth (if the baby was born full-term). Babies typically move from crying two hours a day to crying three hours a day by six weeks of age. Then their crying tapers to about one hour a day by twelve weeks of age.
