The country night was warm and still except for a baby crying in the distance.
VOA: special.2009.06.27
She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby.
VOA: special.2010.05.13
Nearby,a baby was crying.
VOA: special.2009.06.27
It is not the keening and caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily human nature of the plangent cries, which can sound like anything from a babycrying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley.
She also recommends desensitizing the (poor) cat by playing a recording of a babycrying, and perhaps having a friend's child come over to play so the cat gets used to kids, and presumably is then less prone to a full blown freakout when sticky hands grab its tail.