How are auditions for babies different from auditions for children?

How are auditions for babies different from auditions for children?

Gabrielle Schary (Casting Director) gives expert video advice on: What should a child actor wear to an audition?; Do parents accompany their child to the audition?; How should a child actor behave during an audition? and more...

With auditions, sometimes with a baby, when we're interviewing babies, we'll ask the mother or father, whoever brought them, to carry them in. We'll focus in on the baby itself, we'll ask about their nap schedule and what kind of baby they are, because they obviously can't talk for themselves yet. If it's a child that can walk and talk, we typically want to see them by themselves, because they behave differently than they do when their parent is in the room.