It's a fact of life that newborns cry, but a new analysis of nearly 8,700 infants reveals that babies cry and fuss more in certain countries than in others. The study looked at infants in eight countries: Denmark, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Japan and the Netherlands. The lengthiest crying and fussing spells happened in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands, the researchers found. In contrast, babies in Denmark, Germany and Japan cried and fussed the least, the researchers said. Babies in Australia and the United States fell in between these extremes. "Babies are already very different in how much they cry in the first weeks of life — there are large but normal variations," the study's lead researcher, Dieter Wolke, a professor of psychology at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. It's unclear why babies in certain countries would cry more, on average, but cultural issues or parenting styles could be at