One of my siblings is an RN and for a while they worked for one of those services that helped parents when their pediatrician’s offices were closed.  One night they got a call from a distraught new father who couldn’t calm their newborn down.  It was the first time they’d been left alone and couldn’t for the life of them get the child to stop crying.  They were holding the child, changed its diaper, rocked it and yet the child continued to cry.  At a total loss as to what might be wrong and thinking maybe it might be medical, they called and got my sibling on the line.  So they listen to this overwhelmed father and what he had done for the child and had a simple piece of advice that changed everything.  When was the last time you feed the child?  That thought never occurred to him, the child was simply hungry.

I think my sibling should have followed up the next day with the mother to see if the father had told her about this, or was he hiding in shame and embarrassment over making the call for such an obvious problem?