It’s not an easy task for the uninitiated, a new French study has found. More than 200 participants with different levels of childcare experience were given 8 recordings of different children crying over 2 days. They then had to try and distinguish what each cry meant, such as whether it was a cry of pain, discomfort, hunger, and so on. While those with no experience struggled to tell the difference, parents, paediatricians and professional caregivers were correct 70% of the time, suggesting that people’s ability to decode a baby’s cries improves with experience. And in good news for new parents, those with younger babies had the highest success rate of all the participants. Researchers said it was consistent with the idea that experienced caregivers developed a reduced sensitivity to a baby’s cries over time. Unfortunately, the study did not go on to decode how to make the crying stop…