Understimulated
Making dinner, you hear little one begin to make some sweet coos in their swing. Smiling briefly in their direction, you continue to chop the tomatoes.
Then your baby begins to fuss, so you start singing a song of reassurance in his general direction.
This is simply not enough play for your little one, so they begin to give a cry of contempt with intermittent whimpers.
An easy fix (as long as the family doesn’t mind eating dinner out of cans) for this cry is to just pick your baby up and give them some quality one-on-one interaction.