Babies Do Have A Secret Language With Each Other - Signaling

Adults may not understand what an infant is feeling but it's child's play to another baby. A paper in Infancy contends that infants can recognize each other's emotions by five months of age.  "Newborns can't verbalize to their mom or dad that they are hungry or tired, so the first way they communicate is through affect or emotion," says  psychology professor Ross Flom  of Brigham Young University . "Thus it is not surprising that in early development, infants learn to discriminate changes in affect." read more

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