Crying is the only way babies communicate. In the newborn, although his face flushed and her crying would not stop, not a speck of anything he shed tears. Why is that?
Jennifer Shu, a team of authors of books the American Academy of Pediatrics, Heading Home With Your Newborn, explaining, at birth, infant tear glands produce tears only in small amounts to lubricate and protect the eye. Hence, there is no excess tears that came out when he cries.