Lyudmila Sergeevna Sokolova

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Article last updated: 04/29/2019

According to statistics, approximately 30% of children under one year of age experience sleep disturbances. This is expressed in difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking up, crying during, before and after sleep. Why does a child cry before going to bed? There can be many reasons, but parents should act depending on the specific reason. If you do not take any measures, hoping that crying before bed is associated with age and the child will simply outgrow all this, then later the baby may have serious problems not only with sleep, but also with his mental state.

The nature of baby crying

Babies do not know how to talk, so they can only convey any information to an adult by crying. Children scream and cry when they experience any discomfort that is not necessarily related to their well-being. The reason for crying can be loud annoying sounds, emotional overexcitement, protest due to falling into the wrong hands, fear due to the fact that the mother has gone somewhere.

Based on the strength and volume of a child’s crying, doctors can draw conclusions about his well-being. A sick and weak newborn cries quietly and pitifully. A loud, demanding cry that attracts attention speaks of good health and nutrition.

If the reason for crying is a physical need (for example, for food and warmth), then it stops after this need is satisfied (after gaining access to milk, warming up). If the reason is emotional overexcitability, then the baby will calm down only after he has thrown out his tension - crying, screaming, actively waving his arms and legs. This way he will get rid of stress.

Features of children's sleep

Sleep is extremely important for every person, and even more so for a growing baby. This is the most The best way restore strength spent during waking hours. During sleep, the child grows, his immune system develops and strengthens, and the brain systematizes the information received. The quality and quantity of sleep affect the baby's behavior during the day.

If a child does not get enough sleep, this negatively affects his behavior during the day. He remembers information worse, eats little, demonstrates his bad mood, screams, cries, and is capricious. Therefore, frequent whims can sometimes indicate that the baby is not getting enough sleep.

Sleep patterns need to be established from the very beginning. early age. It will provide adequate sleep not only for the child, but for the whole family. Every day at the same time, the baby needs to be bathed, changed into pajamas, read a book or sing a lullaby, and put to bed. Adherence to a strict regime is associated in children with stability.

Physical reasons for crying before bed

When the baby does not go to bed and cries, there is no need to panic, shout at the baby, or express your dissatisfaction. Parents need to calm down, pull themselves together and identify the cause of their child’s anxiety.

The main reasons for a baby's crying

• The child may refuse to sleep and cry due to hunger. He may no longer get enough of his mother's milk and needs to be fed formula if he is under 6 months old, or adult food if he is over 6 months old. When such a problem occurs in a baby before six months, this probably means problems with lactation. The mother should drink special teas that stimulate the production of breast milk, change her feeding position, and consult with a breastfeeding specialist. breastfeeding. Typically, hungry crying begins with a whimper and then turns into a loud, demanding cry. At the same time, the baby shakes its head from side to side, looking for the breast or bottle.
  
• The child cries when he cannot sleep. He may be disturbed various factors environment: loud sounds (TV on, highway noise, hammer or drill during repairs), bright lights (it is better to use a night light when putting the child to bed), stuffiness or cold.
• Many babies refuse to fall asleep when their diaper is full. They announce this by shouting.
  
• A plaintive cry is evidence of pain.
• Teething is an unpleasant process that causes discomfort in many babies. Even if their appearance is still far away, the child may be bothered by itching, which intensifies in the evening when the baby gets tired. Special ointments or gels help soothe itching.
• If the baby is hot, his face turns red and his temperature rises. He cannot sleep normally in a poorly ventilated area. Lack of wet cleaning, musty air and dust will not allow the baby to sleep peacefully.
• If the baby does not yet know how to roll over on his own, he will cry because of the uncomfortable position. Tight or uncomfortable clothes will also cause outrage in the child. The folds of the blouse on the back may press on him, the seams or the tag may rub.
• When the baby falls asleep, there should be no sharp loud sounds around. However, he should not sleep in complete silence. It’s better that he gets used to sleeping with monotonous background sounds - work washing machine, muffled voices of household members. This way, his sleep will be stronger, and in the meantime, parents will be able to calmly go about their normal activities without fear of waking up the baby.

Intestinal colic is one of the reasons for crying

A child aged 1 to 6 months may experience intestinal colic. They appear unexpectedly in the late afternoon, often before falling asleep. A child can scream loudly almost continuously for two hours. At the same time, he wiggles his legs and clenches his fists. After he screams and the pain disappears, he usually falls asleep.

To help your baby with colic, you can put a warm diaper on his tummy, stroke him clockwise, and carry your baby around the room with his tummy down. Some parents use a hairdryer, directing a stream of warm air onto the baby's tummy, the main thing is not to burn or scare the baby. The tummy warms up and calms down, and the monotonous hum of the hairdryer lulls you to sleep.

In exceptional cases, a gas outlet tube or the smallest rubber bulb with the bottom cut off is used for colic. This is how the gases come out effectively, but if handled carelessly, they can cause harm to the baby.

How to help a baby with colic

To get rid of colic, you can give the baby dill water, and the nursing mother tea with fennel. You can give your child medicine: Infacol, Espumisan, Bobotik, Sub-Simplex or others. They all have the same active ingredient - simethicone. After the medicine, the child quickly falls asleep. You should be careful, as the flavorings in these drugs can cause allergies.

Colic can be caused by errors in the diet of a nursing mother or dysbacteriosis. In the first case, the mother should reconsider her diet, and in the second, she will need to get tested and, if necessary, take a course of medications with lacto- or bifidobacteria (for example, Bifiform baby). If the child is on artificial feeding, then colic may occur due to the fact that he is fed the wrong mixture.

Sometimes none of the above remedies help with colic. In such cases, parents have to be patient and wait for them to pass.

Vitamin D deficiency

If the baby’s body does not have enough vitamin D, then phosphorus-calcium metabolism is disrupted, which leads to the appearance of rickets. In the initial stages of the disease, high neuro-reflex excitability is observed, manifested in crying and deterioration of sleep. The baby becomes fearful and irritable. This symptom usually appears at 3-4 months, but sometimes it can occur after 1.5 months.

Emotional and psychological reasons for crying

A child may cry a lot before falling asleep due to the accumulated fatigue of the day. This often happens in adults too. That's why when it's time to go to bed, you need to stop everything. active games with your baby and start doing calmer activities that calm you down and induce sleep. At this time, it is recommended to take a walk in the fresh air. If you can’t go outside, you can limit yourself to the balcony.

If a child cries before going to bed, the cause may be excessive overexcitation. During the day, the baby receives many impressions, especially if relatives come to visit him.

By screaming and crying he relieves tension and calms down.

The child should be comforted by stroking, kind words, and singing a lullaby. At first this may not work, but if you repeat this every time he experiences emotional stress, he will get used to it and will calm down faster from these actions.

According to statistics, 70% of children under 3 years of age are diagnosed by neurologists as “increased nervous excitability.” There's nothing wrong with that. Children with this diagnosis simply cannot fall asleep until they “scream out” all their excess energy. Their sleep is sensitive, superficial, and is often interrupted by crying.

The baby's crying may be a protest that they are trying to put him to sleep without his mother. If the parents have clearly decided that the child should sleep separately, in a crib intended for him, then they will have to firmly respond to his protests. If it is difficult for them to hear the cries of their child, then it is worth organizing co-sleeping. The baby will feel his mother’s warmth next to him, her smell, hear the beat of her heart, will calm down and sleep soundly. This way the whole family can rest, but the process of “moving” to a separate crib in the future can be very painful.

Thus, a baby’s crying before bed is a signal that something is bothering him and preventing him from falling asleep. Parents must respond to this signal in a timely manner, identify the cause of the discomfort and take maximum opportunities to eliminate it.

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A child is much more active than an adult. Combined with increased curiosity and lack of experience, this often leads to injuries, hypothermia, burns and other situations that can harm health. But the connection between the symptom of the disease and the baby’s actions is not always obvious. Often mothers cannot understand why the child cries when urinating, what caused the pain and what measures should be taken.

The situation is complicated by the fact that children, due to their age, cannot always say what is bothering them. If a child cries when peeing, you need to pay attention to all the changes that have occurred: the volume and color of urine, frequency of urination, body temperature. Do not delay your visit to the doctor: proper and timely treatment will help quickly eliminate the cause of the pain and relieve the baby from suffering.

Why does a child cry when urinating?

Pain when urinating in children most often occurs due to hypothermia. But the cause is not the exposure to low temperature itself, but the infections and inflammatory processes that develop against this background. The likelihood of becoming infected with viruses or bacteria is higher during an epidemic, when visiting places with large crowds of people, especially swimming pools and saunas. And, of course, children with weakened immune systems are primarily at risk.

Painful urination in a child can be the result of excessive curiosity. At a certain age, children develop an increased interest in the features of their body, including the structure and functioning of the external genitourinary organs. During a diagnostic examination, foreign objects are found in the urethra: beads, small parts from toys, buttons.

Sometimes pain during urination occurs due to genetic characteristics, hormonal imbalances, and malformations of the urinary system. These factors are difficult to influence, but it is important to identify them in time and begin treatment.

Causes of painful urination

Painful urination may be a sign of the following diseases:

• Cystitis. With this disease, the bladder mucosa becomes inflamed, the child often asks to pee, but the volume of urine is small. The process is accompanied by pain. Sometimes a bacterial infection occurs.
• Kidney stone disease. There are many reasons for its occurrence: hereditary predisposition, endocrine disruptions, deficiency or excess of certain vitamins, disturbances in the outflow of urine, etc. The basis for the formation of a stone can be a foreign body in the urethra, blood clots, fibrin, bacteria. In this case, the child strains when urinating and does not move, so as not to provoke an attack of pain. .
• Vesicopelvic reflux. With this disorder, urine is thrown from the bladder back into the pelvis. This occurs because the sphincter, which is supposed to prevent fluid from returning, does not contract correctly. The reason for this may be congenital and acquired pathologies of the urinary tract, frequent infectious and inflammatory processes in them.

Less common causes of painful urination in girls are vulvovaginitis and synechiae (fused labia). In boys, there is a narrowed outlet of the urethra and balanitis (inflammation of the head of the penis).

Symptoms of diseases

Determining the symptoms of diseases is complicated by the fact that children often cannot describe their condition, make complaints, or determine the location of pain. A newborn baby cries before and during urination, makes sudden movements, and screams. At the age of up to 3 years, there are more means to indicate the condition: the baby can point to the genitals, hold on to them with his hand, and run away from the potty. Older children can already at least approximately show the location of the pain and even describe its nature (it stings, burns, hurts a lot or just a little).

Each of the diseases that can cause pain during urination is accompanied by a number of other symptoms.:

• With urinary tract infections, including cystitis, the child experiences a burning sensation or pain when urinating. The baby pees often and does not have time to get to the potty. Portions of urine are small, sometimes a few drops per unpleasant smell. Characterized by fever, bouts of vomiting, and loss of appetite. Pus and blood when urinating in children appear with severe cystitis.
• With urolithiasis, the urine may also contain pus and blood. The pain is localized not only in the genitourinary area, but also in the abdomen, lower back, and on the front and inner thighs. By nature it is colic - acute, sudden. Nausea and weakness may appear. In a certain position, often lying on its side, the child feels better.
• With vesicopelvic reflux, the pain is localized in the lumbar region, but it can be difficult for babies to determine this, and they point to the stomach. Urination is not difficult, the urge is frequent, and sometimes does not cause pain in itself. The pathology is characterized by a chronic course. If an exacerbation occurs, the child winces when urinating from unexpected discomfort.

Which doctor should I see?

If your child experiences pain during urination, you should first contact your pediatrician. He will conduct an initial survey and either prescribe treatment himself or give a referral to a specialist. Depending on the assumptions about the disease, this may be a nephrologist, urologist or gynecologist.

If the symptoms are acute - the child has severe unbearable pain, a sharp rise in temperature or uncontrollable vomiting, you need to call an ambulance. Most likely, the doctor will suggest hospitalization, and in a hospital setting all necessary specialists will be consulted.

When preparing to visit a doctor or while waiting for an ambulance to arrive, you need to prepare answers to a number of questions. It is important to remember when the pain first appeared, where the child hurts when urinating, and how the child behaves when doing so. Doctors will also ask if there are congenital defects of the urinary tract or kidneys, chronic diseases, or whether such symptoms have occurred before. If the child has taken or is taking any medications, this must also be reported.

Diagnostics

Diagnosis begins with a medical interview. Based on the medical history and description of symptoms, the doctor prescribes the necessary instrumental and laboratory examination methods.

They include:

• general blood and urine analysis;
• urine analysis according to Nechiporenko;
• bacteriological urine analysis;
• Ultrasound of the urinary tract, kidneys;
• X-ray examination of the pelvic organs;
• analysis of a smear from the urethra (detection of the bacterial component).

The list of techniques may be shortened or supplemented. Based on the results obtained, treatment is adjusted.

Treatment

Pain in a child during, after, or before urination requires treatment.

The choice of drugs depends on the disease:

1. For inflammatory processes in the urinary tract, including cystitis, the use of antibacterial and antiviral agents, local baths with herbal decoctions, adherence to drinking regime, sometimes - droppers with sorbents and saline solution.
2. Kidney stone disease requires the use of combined herbal medicines (Cystenal, Canephron N). They split and crush stones and facilitate their release. Warm baths and bed rest are also indicated.
3. If the cause of pain during urination is a foreign body, then its removal is required, and then the use of local antiseptics and antibacterial drugs.
4. For vesicopelvic reflux, microinvasive surgery with endoscopic fixation of the ureter is indicated; drugs that relieve spasm are prescribed as a temporary measure.

In general, the treatment of such diseases consists of four components: medicines, drinking plenty of fluids, following a diet and bed rest. This comprehensive approach promotes rapid recovery and helps avoid complications.

Prevention

If a child cries before, during or after urination, then most often the reason for this is infectious and inflammatory processes in the urinary tract. To prevent them, it is important to follow the rules intimate hygiene. From an early age, children, especially girls, should be taught how to wash properly: from front to back. Lingonberry and cranberry fruit drinks and drinking plenty of fluids prevent the spread of microbes.

Sometimes the cause of painful urination in a child is prolonged exposure to soap, bubble bath or shower gel. It is important to ensure that the child completely washes off these products after bathing, and their choice should be made according to age. After water procedures, you need to wipe yourself dry and put on cotton underwear that fits properly.

Pain when urinating in a child may be caused by various diseases. The most common among them are cystitis, urolithiasis disease and vesicopelvic reflux. If symptoms appear, you should contact a pediatrician or directly a specialist, and in case of acute manifestations, call an ambulance. Treatment depends on the diagnosis, but always includes drinking plenty of fluids, bed rest and diet.

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When a baby appears in the house, all family members try to surround him with care, love and attention. But sometimes it happens that a child suddenly starts crying and sometimes parents cannot understand the reason for such crying. It would seem that the baby is well-groomed, fed, dressed, talked to, and the parents are simply confused about how to help calm the child.

A newborn baby constantly cries: how to understand what he wants?

Parents often wonder why their child constantly cries for no apparent reason. However, this is only at first glance; there are no such obvious signs indicating the child’s discomfort. An infant will never cry just like that. He always has a reason for this. It’s just that sometimes parents cannot immediately recognize the signals coming from the child.

Since a newborn baby cannot speak, he cannot communicate to his parents about his desires, feelings and sensations other than to start crying. Crying for him is a way of communication, an opportunity to show that something he is experiencing is wrong. And the reasons for such crying can be different:

• Most often, the baby starts crying when he is hungry. Such crying is often accompanied by redness of the face, the baby begins to pull his arms forward and cry protractedly, demanding food;
• The baby experiences discomfort while wearing a wet diaper. By crying, he informs his parents that it is time for him to change his clothes. And such crying can occur at any time of the day, when the child is not very actively whimpering, thus demonstrating his condition;
• Uncomfortable clothing can also cause crying, causing discomfort. Parents should inspect the baby’s clothes more carefully; perhaps there is an extra fold on the clothes somewhere or a button is rubbing. In this case, the crying stops as soon as the irritating moment is eliminated;
• The child is tired of lying in one position. A small child spends most of his time in the same position - lying down. It’s no wonder that lying down all the time can get boring, especially when there’s so much interesting going on around you. The baby may call his parents after crying a little, thus attracting their attention and demanding a change in his position. In such a situation, children really like to be carried in arms, this way they calm down faster;
• Unsuitable room temperature can irritate your baby. He may be hot or, conversely, very cold. If he is hot, he begins to blush and try to get out of his clothes, vigorously moving his arms and legs. If he is cold, then at first the child cries sharply, and then quietly and for a long time, sometimes even hiccups are noted;
• Crying during feeding indicates that the baby has health problems. Perhaps his ear hurts and swallowing during feeding increases the pain. With a stuffy nose, it is also difficult for a child to eat because the nose is clogged. In this case, the crying is loud, the child may squeal. Mom can suck out the snot with an aspirator and continue feeding;
• Crying after feeding indicates that the baby is suffering from colic. It must be remembered that after eating it is necessary to hold the child in a column so that gases escape;
• constipation, as a cause of child dissatisfaction, is more common in children who are bottle-fed. As a result of excessive irritation of the anus, the baby may cry for a long time and loudly;
• the child is tired of the environment and wants to sleep, he begins to whine and reacts little to changes occurring around him;
• The baby wants to communicate with his parents. In this case, crying acts as a signal for such communication.
• Often a child may react by crying to changes in the weather. Not only adults, but also children can be weather dependent. You need to pay more attention to the baby to reduce his feeling of discomfort.

What to do if a child constantly cries loudly and for a long time?

Over time, parents begin to distinguish between the strength of the voice, timbre, and the situation in which the baby is crying. And they already understand more clearly what exactly the child wants right now. Such differentiation in the crying of a child among parents occurs only over time, when they have gained experience and know how and when their baby cries. In this case, it is easier for them to immediately help meet the child’s needs.

Sometimes parents think that the child is crying for no reason. This may be due to the baby having an easily excitable nervous system. If a child quickly gets excited and reacts violently to the environment, then it is necessary to spend as much time with him as possible. fresh air, do not turn on loud music or TV in his presence, do not speak in a raised voice, and reduce the number of very loud toys that can increase the baby’s overexcitation. That is, the main task of parents is to remove irritating factors.

Regardless of the reason for the baby’s crying, there are a number of rules of behavior that are important to follow:

• if a child starts crying, then you need to immediately respond to him: come up, take him in your arms, stroke him on the head;
• eliminate the cause of crying: if the baby wants to eat, then feed him; if he is hot, then ventilate the room; when trying to attract attention, tell him a story or sing a song;
• Parents themselves need to remain calm, since a nervous situation in the family will only increase the child’s tension.

If a child cannot calm down for a long time and all the measures taken do not help, then you can contact a psychologist who will help establish contact with the child and give parents confidence in their abilities. Or, if you suspect physical ailments, call a doctor.

You can often hear from parents that they do not want to immediately react to the child's cry, fearing to spoil him if they react to his whims right away. However, this is fundamentally wrong. To a small child It is important that the parents accept and understand it and immediately respond to the child’s dissatisfaction, since this contributes to the formation of a trusting relationship with the parents and provides the child with a feeling of comfort and security, that the parents are always ready to help. If they do not respond, then such a child eventually stops crying: why call if adults still do not respond. In this case, the child develops distrust of the world and others.

All of us, parents, take care of our children and try to protect them from troubles and disappointments. But, of course, every person, including children, experiences feelings of fear, embarrassment, loneliness or dissatisfaction. And how can adults help their baby get rid of pain when the child cries?

Firstly, you don’t need to immediately rush to him and calm him down at all costs. Think about why a child cries and what are tears for? A crying baby is freed from overwhelming emotions. And first we need to be ready to listen to him, and not just say: “Don't cry!” or disappointments contain stress hormones. This means that with the help of crying, the child gets rid of mental pain and in a natural way is healed by it.

Think back to your childhood. Surely you have often heard such soothing words: “Quiet! Everything is fine! Why are you crying? There is no need to get upset over trifles! Boys don't cry!” etc. As a result, we also tell our children when they are crying or angry.

The process of releasing negative emotions involves the attention of another person. So children need someone to listen to them too. Remember your children when they first started walking or running, when they fell, etc. If people nearby made frightened faces, immediately rushed to help, began to ooh and ahh, then the child immediately became frightened, upset and began to cry and scream loudly. If no one showed any sign or simply did not pay attention, then the child remained calm.

Almost the same thing happens when a child experiences emotional pain rather than physical pain. If there is no one nearby, then there is no one to share your grief with. In this case, unspoken resentment begins to accumulate, and crying may indicate that there is a more serious problem than this resentment or the physical pain of the bruise. When there is a patient listener nearby, the baby has the opportunity to throw out all the negative feelings that have accumulated before.

If you constantly reassure a child and tell him to stop crying, then gradually children learn to hide their emotions. Having learned to control their behavior, in the future children will show their emotions only in those moments when they feel safe, or when their patience is overflowing. This is why emotional outbursts occur. Most often they occur spontaneously when parents are nearby.

When children are away from their parents, they often bottle up their emotions. I think that many of you are familiar with situations when a child first went to kindergarten. In your presence, the child cries and is capricious, and from the teachers you hear that everything was fine without you. The child played, ate, slept, etc. But when you return home, the hysterics begin again.

The security that a child feels when he is close to his parents allows him to relax and finally get rid of oppressive feelings. Warm and good atmosphere, support and understanding of parents makes it possible to throw out painful emotions.

Remember that emotions are not good or bad, right or wrong. Emotions must always be accepted, no matter what they are. But behavior and ways of expressing feelings may or may not be acceptable. For example, when a child is angry, you can hit the pillow with your hands and feet, but you cannot break the furniture; You can throw soft balls, but you cannot hit a mirror with a wooden hammer, etc.

Every attack of anger, resentment or hysteria has positive side. The child, having gotten rid of pain and worries, again becomes calm, cheerful and friendly.

Be patient and do not take words spoken in anger personally. The child only uses those methods of getting rid of anger that are available to him. And this does not mean at all that the child hates or does not love you. Teach him to cope with negative emotions in constructive ways, listen to him, let him get rid of the accumulated negativity. And already in adult life Your child will be grateful for everything you have done for him.

The crying of a tiny baby in the first days after its birth causes anxiety and a feeling of confusion among young parents, but after a few months, mom and dad can easily recognize why the baby is crying. A newborn may cry for the following reasons:

1. Hunger: when the baby just feels that he is hungry, his crying will be quiet, but at the same time inviting. If the child has not been able to satisfy the need for food, then the intensity and volume of crying will increase. When the baby is in your arms, he will actively look for the breast. If you put your finger to the corner of the baby's mouth, the baby will open his mouth.
2. Colic pain: Infant colic is not considered a medical condition. An unpleasant symptom occurs due to the reaction of the intestine, which is not sufficiently populated with beneficial microflora, to new food. Usually, infants react to painful sensations with sudden and loud crying. If the pain increases, the child will cry pitifully, with the same intensity, draw his legs to his stomach and arch.
3. Fear: if something frightens the baby, he will react to the stimulus with a sudden loud cry, which will stop quite quickly.
4. Wet clothes or diaper: The newborn cries quietly, but at the same time he begins to fidget, trying to move away from the source of discomfort. The cause of a baby's crying can also be tight clothing, tight swaddling, a wrinkle in the bed, or any other irritant.
5. Cold: Crying in this case quickly turns into hiccups and sobs. At the same time, the child’s skin takes on a pale tint.
6. Overheating: the baby's skin turns red, and he begins to cry and wave his arms and legs. An increase in body temperature may also occur.
7. Overfatigue: the baby reacts sharply to any irritants and even those things (actions) that usually cause positive emotions in him. However, when rocked in a stroller or in your arms, the baby quickly calms down and stops crying.
8. Desire for communication: if a child feels abandoned, he begins to cry not too loudly, but his crying resembles calls. As soon as the mother or another family member takes the baby in her arms, the baby’s negative emotions stop, and the baby calms down.
9. Teething: In the first year of life, the appearance of baby teeth often causes restless crying, as well as symptoms such as excessive salivation, touching of the gums, a rise in body temperature and even diarrhea.
10. Bathing: water procedures do not always bring positive emotions to newborns, especially if bathing occurs in too hot or cold water. When bathing, crying is accompanied by compression of the body and shuddering.

The first thing parents should do when they hear the baby screaming and sobbing is to try to find out why the child is crying and immediately help the child (feed, change the diaper, hold, etc.). Many inexperienced parents attribute a child’s crying to whims, although such behavior cannot possibly be present in an infant due to the development of his psyche. A delayed reaction to the baby’s negative emotions aggravates them, which is why the child feels abandoned. In the future, this may negatively affect the child’s trust not only in the world around him, but also in the people closest to him, which becomes the basis for the formation of complexes and low self-esteem. Therefore, leaving any crying unattended is unacceptable!

Crying for health problems

A healthy baby who feels well only cries if he needs something. As soon as the baby feels the need has been satisfied or the source of discomfort has been eliminated, his crying stops. But what if the newborn is constantly crying? Why is this happening:

1. The baby has developed diaper dermatitis: as a rule, it manifests itself as redness of the skin and a rash in the areas where the skin comes into contact with the diaper. The baby becomes too irritable, curls up his legs and cries loudly when trying to change his diaper or treat his skin with cream (talcum powder). The baby reacts especially restlessly to skin contact with urine (feces), since feces coming into contact with inflamed skin provoke increased discomfort.
2. Perinatal encephalopathy syndrome: this pathology provokes a headache in the baby, reminiscent of migraine attacks, which is why the child may cry all day and refuse to feed. Headaches are especially aggravated by changes in weather.
3. Otitis: with ear inflammation, the newborn cries continuously, turns his head and tries to grab his ears with his hands. A rise in body temperature and purulent discharge from the ear may also be observed.
4. ARVI: often such diseases are accompanied by nasal congestion and sore throat, to which the baby reacts very sharply, which is why he constantly cries.
5. Constipation: The baby constantly cries because he feels heaviness and pain in the tummy. Usually, after a bowel movement, the crying stops and the baby becomes calm.
6. Inflammation of the oral mucosa: with stomatitis and thrush, the baby constantly rubs his gums, cries and refuses to feed.

If parents suspect that something is wrong with their baby’s health, they should call a pediatrician rather than find out on their own why the baby is constantly worried. In children in the first months of life, with symptoms such as lethargy, high body temperature, convulsions, blue discoloration of the nasolabial triangle, lack of urination, vomiting and diarrhea, it is necessary to call an ambulance. All these signs indicate serious health problems, so medical intervention should be immediate.

Often, new parents are faced with the problem of a newborn baby crying. Unfortunately, children cannot yet tell what worries them. One can only guess why the baby is crying. Perhaps he was just hungry. What if something hurts? How to understand?

Causes

There can be many reasons why a newborn baby cries. And each requires analysis and a special approach. The most common ones are:

• Hunger.
• Uncomfortable environment: climate, clothing.
• Abdominal pain (colic).
• Neurology.
• Cold.

At first, it seems that the baby's cry is always the same. It can be difficult to distinguish. But there are several distinctive signs of one or another reason for crying.

Hunger

In maternity hospitals and courses for expectant mothers they say the same thing. An infant should eat by the hour. And most mothers strictly follow this rule. But the baby’s stomach is so small that the milk consumed may not be enough until the next feeding. Therefore, you should not wait half an hour before the next scheduled feeding. Let the baby eat. This rule applies to children who are on both types of feeding: breast and artificial.

Of course, feed breast milk much easier than adding a portion of artificial mixture each time. After all, if the reason is not hunger, you cannot reheat it, since the shelf life of the finished product is no more than an hour. This criterion depends on the specific brand. But there is a sure way to check whether the baby wants to eat. Place your bent little finger on your newborn's cheek. If he turns his head and starts trying to grab the finger with his mouth, he wants to eat. After feeding, children calm down and fall asleep peacefully until the next meal.

Uncomfortable environment

It is believed that the best temperature for a newborn is 23 degrees. But each child is individual in his own way. Some people like it more heat. Or maybe the baby is just hot? A simple test will help you understand this.

• You need to take the baby by the hand.
• Place your hand on the toddler’s wrist.
• With a cold wrist, you can be sure that the infant is really cold. If, on the other hand, it is hot and damp with sweat, he is most likely feeling hot.

Organize a comfortable temperature regime. After all, kids feel such changes very sensitively. But what they feel even more is an overfilled diaper.

Unfortunately, parents often simply forget to change diapers on time. This may make the baby feel uncomfortable. An overfilled diaper can be more than just a cause for concern. Sometimes diaper rash develops in the perineum of children. Take a closer look to see if there is any redness there. If there is, you must definitely fight it with the help of healing and drying baby creams. Also, ordinary powder can cope with the task of drying, which is good to alternate with cream.

Even after the diaper rash has healed, the baby may continue to cry for a long time before needing to pee. He will remember the pain he felt before urinating. It all depends on how severe the diaper rash was. That's why it's so important to change diaper more often to a newborn. Or better yet, remove it altogether when the baby is awake.

Tummy pain

The baby's digestive system is still imperfect. Even mother's milk can be addictive. Therefore, the mother should especially closely monitor her diet in the first months after the birth of the baby. New Product must be added to your diet gradually. And watch the child’s reaction.

You can also understand that the baby is crying because of colic. He begins to cry loudly, while actively kicking his legs. The crying can continue for hours. At the same time, nothing can calm him down. In a good way is the application of the baby's tummy to the mother's belly. If this is not possible, a warm diaper is usually placed on the tummy. After a while, under the influence of heat, the pain goes away and the baby becomes quiet.

In addition to non-drug methods, there are options for help with taking various drugs orally. One of them is dill water. It has been tested for years and gives good results. But little children are all different. One medicine is suitable for some, another for others. Here a consultation with a pediatrician is necessary. He will be able to advise the most effective remedy.

Neurology

Today, neurology is becoming more common in newly born children. The reasons for this are different and occur at different stages of pregnancy. Even during childbirth, there is a risk of the baby getting sick. Improper attempts make it difficult for the baby to pass through the birth canal. This is the possibility of hypoxia. If you engage in treatment, such problems usually go away by the age of one year. But a consultation with a neurologist is necessary.

It is not difficult to understand that a child is crying because of neurology. Their crying can continue for several hours. Daytime and night sleep. It happens that they hardly sleep. When crying, the nasolabial triangle often turns blue and the chin trembles. Hypertonicity of the limbs is often observed when the fingers are tightly clenched.

Cold

It happens that a newly born baby gets a cold. A fragile body is especially difficult to tolerate infection. Symptoms may include snot with clots, fever, and cough. It is extremely important to see a doctor immediately to avoid complications. Under no circumstances should you self-medicate in such cases. It is unknown what is suitable for an infant and how the body will react to treatment.

Reasons for crying in your sleep

Sometimes children cry in their sleep at night. How to recognize what is bothering your baby? If he was cheerful during the day and there were no difficulties with getting into bed, check the sleeping place. Perhaps the sheet was twisted under him and he lay down on the pacifier. Or maybe the uncomfortable environment got in the way. Never turn on bright lights in the room where the child is sleeping. Use the soft light of a night light.

Unfortunately, intestinal colic can also occur at night. In this case, you will have to calm the child by picking him up. But you can also try the option with a warm diaper.

Teeth begin to cut at 4 months of age. And this brings tremendous pain to the baby not only during the day, but also at night. Sleep is disturbed, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea increase. Be sure to consult your pediatrician if such phenomena occur.

What to do?

If baby cries, you must first figure out what was the reason for the tears. After that, start solving the problem. When the reasons lie in hunger, feed the little one, even if the required time has not passed since the last feeding. Perhaps he has not completely emptied the breast or the milk has already been digested.

When a baby cannot calm down for a long time, he is probably suffering from colic. The following measures can help:

• Tummy massage. It is done strictly clockwise so as not to cause further harm.
• Exercises. To do this, place the baby on the bed, bend his legs at the knees so that they touch the stomach. And turn them alternately, now in one direction, then in the other.
• Laying out on the tummy, with legs bent at the knees.
• Warm heating pad or diaper.
• Vapor tube when all else fails.
• If the tummy is swollen from gases, and the child has not walked for a long time, you can try the following.

Use a cotton swab lubricated in baby cream or Vaseline oil to lubricate the toddler's anus. This will help soften the skin, and the baby will be able to go to the toilet.

If any manifestation of illness occurs, call a doctor immediately. While you wait, you can try to calm your little one with smooth movements. Small children remember the rocking motions when they were in their mother's tummy. Take the baby in your arms and swing it smoothly, you can dance. A good option An ordinary fitball will serve. The baby will calm down a little, perhaps even fall asleep before the doctor arrives.

Elena Zhabinskaya

The tears of a baby can cause panic in a young mother. I remember very well that feeling when the baby bursts into screams, and you rush around, not understanding what’s going on.

Meanwhile, in the vast majority of cases, it is very easy to determine why a newborn is crying by following certain rules. As a rule, the baby has a limited number of reasons for dissatisfaction. We’ll talk about them today, and also learn how to recognize and eliminate them.

Experienced pediatricians distinguish 3 groups of causes of crying in a child:

1. Instinct. A newborn alone is not viable. Therefore, nature has endowed him with the ability to call for help when he feels that he is left alone, just to feel the warmth of a large and strong adult and to make sure that he is safe.
2. Unsatisfied natural needs (want to drink, eat, pee, poop, sleep).
3. Discomfort or pain (diaper elastic rubbed, wet, diaper rash hurts, tummy hurts).

The baby cannot say all of the above in words, because his only way of communicating with you is screaming and crying.

Accordingly, if a baby cries, this does not mean that something terrible happened right away. And all that is required of you is to first understand the reason for the tears.

How to understand why he cries

1. Take the crying baby into your arms. Calmed down? This means that nothing terrible probably happened. Because pain and discomfort do not go away on their own just because the baby is picked up. Most likely, the reason for the tears was that the baby missed you, lost you, and generally wanted attention.
2. Have you picked up your baby, but he hasn't stopped crying? Check the diaper, if it is full, change it. Think about how long ago the baby drank and ate; if more than 2 hours have passed, offer water, breast or formula.
3. Has the crying stopped? We are looking for the causes of discomfort or pain.

A separate topic is the child’s capriciousness due to illness; read about how to recognize this.

Overheat.

Think about whether the baby is hot. Infants' metabolism occurs much faster than in adults, so the baby's body produces more heat per unit of time. We add here the imperfection of the sweating system, and we get that the baby is very, very easy to overheat.

The air temperature in the room where the newborn is located above 22 degrees is dangerous for the baby due to overheating. However, one layer of cotton clothing is more than enough.

Taking into account the features child's body, it is impossible in principle to overcool a child if the room is above 16 degrees.

How do most families live here? When it’s plus 28 in the apartment in winter, a crib is closer to the radiator, an additional heater, the poor child has a lot of clothes on: a shirt, rompers, a hat, socks, a jacket. As soon as I imagine it, I already want to cry!

It is especially painful to sleep at night in such conditions, so most likely the little one does not sleep at night, but screams.

It is overheating that is dangerous because when you find its obvious signs (red wet skin, wet head, diaper rash), this is already an extreme situation, indicating that the baby has lost a colossal amount of fluid and salts, and there is a real threat of dehydration.

In such a situation, against the background of fluid loss by the body, intestinal juices become thick, viscous, and are not able to properly digest the food eaten.

Tummy hurts

Therefore, we are gradually approaching the next reason for a child’s crying: tummy pain, gas, colic.

The main causes of tummy problems are overheating and overfeeding, that is, eating every squeak, every 30 minutes or more often.

As you already understand, without eliminating the causes of this disaster, you will not deal with the consequences (screaming and crying).

You should definitely offer food no earlier than 2 hours after the last meal.

When a toddler has a tummy ache, he can cry constantly, all the time: during the day, and in the evening, and at night. How can I help him right away?

As a temporary measure for gas and colic, you can try:

1. Massage the baby's tummy clockwise.
2. Special children's medicines with simethicone (commercial names Espumisan baby, Subsimplex, Bobotik). Before use, of course, you should consult your pediatrician. Simethicone itself is interesting in that it is not absorbed into the body, but reacts exclusively with gases in the intestines, binding and eliminating them. Thus, it is safe for the baby.

Crying while bathing

When a previously calm child begins to scream at the moment of immersion in water, or while in the water, we should stand in his place and think about what is wrong.

Water temperature? The optimal temperature for babies is about 34 degrees Celsius. Moreover, if the baby bathes in a large bath and moves actively, then even this temperature is high for him.

Therefore, if you pushed your newborn into 37-38 degrees, the reason for the discomfort is quite obvious - it’s too hot!

Pay attention to the lighting. It often happens that the baby lies on his back, and the lamp shines directly into his eyes, blinding and frightening. It may be worth dimming the lights to eliminate this cause of concern.

Before urinating

A fairly common problem in boys is inflammation of the foreskin. You can recognize it precisely by the fact that before peeing, the child screams heart-rendingly, after which he urinates and calms down.

Before the doctor arrives, you can try to alleviate the baby’s condition with the following actions:

1. Wash the baby with a solution of furatsilin or chlorhexidine (up to 4 times a day).
2. After this, slightly pull the foreskin up and carefully drip about three drops of a sterile oil solution of vitamin A or E (sold in pharmacies in ampoules) inside from a clean pipette or syringe (without a needle).

If, however, the baby does not calm down even after peeing, if he cannot pee at all, if something is swollen or blue, then a surgeon is urgently needed, do not torment the little one with self-medication, but rush to the doctor!

How to behave when the baby screams and screams, and you feel like you're about to explode? Pull yourself together. Take your child to a crib or playpen where he cannot hurt himself, hit himself or fall, close the door and exhale.

If possible, go to the farthest room, where it is as quiet as possible. Take a shower, drink a big, cozy mug of lemon balm or chamomile tea. Take a timeout for 15 minutes and try to relax. Even such a short respite can restore emotional balance and restore sober reason.

In the end, the baby will either fall asleep during this time, or you will hug him with renewed vigor, after which he will instantly calm down.

Time flies mercilessly fast. And, looking back one day, you will be surprised when and how, from a crying lump hanging on his mother around the clock, the baby managed to turn into an independent teenager with his own personal space and kisses only on holidays.

Therefore, appreciate these moments - priceless moments of happiness with your baby - when he is here, at arm's length, eating, playing and even when he cries.

By the way, modern pediatricians recommend hanging special carousel mobiles on the cribs of babies over 1 month old. Looking at this device, the baby learns to concentrate, strain and train the eye muscles and focus on the subject, which is very important for timely development in all respects. In addition, the little one quickly calms down, interested in such a toy, and can look at it for a long time, giving mother priceless minutes. I bought this mobile from online store Daughters-Sons. Large selection, reasonable prices, inexpensive delivery. So take it on board!

Causes and types of crying in newborns.

Why is the baby crying? Perhaps this particular question has been the undisputed leader in frequency of repetitions over its centuries-old history. It doesn’t matter how it was asked: in the mind, in a whisper or in a hysterical desperate cry: the cry of a newborn leaves no one indifferent. Fathers and mothers of first-born children suffer especially. It is they who most often complain at a pediatrician's appointment that the child cries almost around the clock, giving rise to a huge feeling of pity, despair and, at the same time, a persistent desire to escape from the little tyrant at least for a little while. Let's try to help them understand their newborn baby and restore peace and tranquility in the family.

What does a baby's cry mean?

Crying is a powerful mechanism for an infant’s adaptation to extrauterine conditions. Moreover, human cubs scream not only often, but also with numerous intonations. After all, before the baby learns to put his feelings and desires into words, only with the help of crying can he express fear, pain, hunger, fatigue, and in some cases, joy.

What does a young mother who has just gone through the throes of labor do when she hears the cry of her newborn baby? Of course - smiling happily! After all, a loud cry marks the birth of healthy baby. In this case, inhaling deeply and exhaling slowly promotes effective opening of the lungs, rapid absorption of excess fluid from them and prevents the development of congestive pneumonia.

How do you calm a baby in the delivery room? That's right - they apply it to the mother's breast. The baby quickly calms down and, busily snoring, actively sucks. As a rule, after feeding, the baby is washed, weighed, dressed and left in the children's ward or next to the mother. Tired from the abundance of new impressions, he sleeps soundly for several hours until he gets hungry again.

Let's figure out what can make a baby cry in the first month of life.

Baby cries while feeding

So, the most common reason for a newborn’s cry is a feeling of hunger. At the same time, the crying is with demanding intonations and the louder the longer you have to wait for feeding. Why, after calming down during sucking, can he cry again?

1. Incorrect breast placement. Well, how can you not get offended and angry if the milk is very close, but due to a violation of the breastfeeding technique, you can’t eat?

2. It's hard to suck. In the first days after birth, not only the mother, but also the child has to get used to breastfeeding and possible problems: to flat nipples, to thick colostrum and to lactostasis. In this case, children may have swelling of the nasal passages or a short frenulum of the tongue, which also makes sucking difficult.

3. There are painful elements of the rash in the oral cavity (thrush, microbial aphthae). During the morning and evening toilet, the mother needs to examine the mucous membrane of the tongue, gums and cheeks so as not to miss the appearance of red pustular elements or white fungal plaque. Herpetic stomatitis is especially dangerous for infants. In this case, delay in active treatment threatens not only health, but also life.

4. Ear hurts. As a rule, in newborns it occurs as a complication of intrauterine infection or, less commonly, against the background of a runny nose. The crying is loud, shrill, with painful intonations. The baby, having barely swallowed the first portion of milk, abandons the breast and refuses to start eating again for a long time. If you suspect ear pain, your child should be seen by a doctor.

5. Tummy hurts. In the first month of life, the colonization of the baby's intestines by microorganisms is often accompanied by clinical symptoms, united under the concept of dysbiosis. It manifests itself as a loud rumbling, altered color and consistency of stool. The child begins to cry suddenly, while he presses his legs to his stomach, bends his whole body and strains, and after passing gas or stool he immediately calms down.

What can help the baby? Gently stroking the tummy clockwise, constant relaxing warmth (for example, wool scarf, tied in the form of a sash), laid out on the stomach. Skin-to-skin contact is very effective: the baby is carried on the arm in a face-down position so that the mother’s palm constantly warms the long-suffering tummy, or the baby is put to sleep on the adult’s chest. A lot of useful information can be found in the article “Colic in newborns.” In agreement with the pediatrician, it is possible to use adsorbents (Disflatil) and biological products (Lactobacterin, Linnex, Lacidofil).

A child cries in his sleep

In addition to a feeling of hunger or intestinal colic, the cause of crying may be an uncomfortable position, prolonged pressure on the skin from folds of clothing or linen wrapped around a finger of hair. In the first month of life, it is especially important to choose the right clothes for your baby, level the bed and protect him from string threads. To prevent it from resting on its side or ear, turn it over approximately every 30 minutes.

The baby may be hot. Signs of overheating will be not only a loud cry, but also red skin color, perspiration on the forehead and back. Diaper rash easily occurs on vulnerable and delicate skin. Even short-term contact of the inflamed macerated surface of the epidermis with feces causes cutting pain, to which the child reacts with painful crying. But newborns can have up to 25 urinations per day! How to prevent diaper rash and treat it - see the special article.

If the child is cold, then the crying will be quiet and plaintive. And the first signs of hypothermia will be pale skin and the red border of the lips, cold hands and feet. How to properly dress a child and protect him from hypothermia during a walk - read our articles.

A common cause of premature awakening and displeased screaming is fear. It will take more than one week before the baby stops being afraid of his own movements, especially with his hands. But fingers with sharp nails strive to scratch the sensitive skin of the eyelids, cheeks and wings of the nose. Even if parents are ardent opponents of tight swaddling, timid and easily excitable children in the first months of life before bed can be wrapped in a swaddle so as to limit their movements. Perhaps this alone will be enough for the whole family to sleep peacefully. Anti-scratch mittens are also useful.

Baby cries while bathing

There may be several reasons for this:

• fear of one’s own movements and the feeling of parents’ strong hands holding the baby on the water;
• uncomfortable water temperature - hot or cold;
• painful reaction of areas of skin with diaper rash to exposure to water.

What will calm the child? Firstly, he should not be hungry. Secondly, you need to lower the baby into warm water and slowly, while gently holding him under the back and head and talking to him tenderly. You need to give time to get used to bathing as well as to all other routine moments. How to bathe correctly - see the article “Bathing with pleasure and benefit.”

Why else can a newborn baby cry?

Contrary to popular belief, in the first month of life a baby cries much less often than in subsequent months. Due to the immaturity of the nervous system, only strong stimuli (pain, hunger and fear) can provoke a cry. The task of parents is to provide their child with such living conditions in which he could sleep, eat peacefully and gradually get used to the world that is new to him. Bright light, sharp loud sounds (screaming, knocking), constantly working TV or radio are contraindicated. Otherwise, the baby may cry, experiencing fatigue, difficulty falling asleep, or not being able to get enough sleep.

The child cries constantly

If parents are sure that the baby does not have any of the above reasons for monotonous or very loud crying, and it takes a long time to calm him down, you need to seek help from your pediatrician. He will be able to examine the child and recommend correction of the identified deviation in health status. What is most often detected: agitation syndrome against the background of perinatal damage to the central nervous system, changes in liquor dynamics with the development of intracranial hypertension and hydrocephalic syndrome, cysts in the brain. We must not forget that even newborn children can have acute surgical pathology (intestinal volvulus, strangulated hernia, appendicitis), various tumors that compress nerve endings and cause pain, as well as congenital structural abnormalities accompanied by pain.

What other reasons for crying can a grown-up baby find - read the article “What are you crying about, baby?”

Often young mothers are faced with baby crying and cannot understand what is wrong. It is almost impossible to calm a newborn without eliminating the cause of crying. What to do? How to understand why a baby is screaming? How to calm a newborn baby and ensure his comfort?

Why is the baby crying

If a baby screams and won't stop, there is a reason for it. You need to understand that a newborn child uses crying as a means of conveying to others his dissatisfaction with something. An infant does not yet know how to manipulate and seek mother’s attention by crying. Therefore, when you hear children’s cries, you need to take it seriously and start looking for the cause.

The main reasons for a newborn baby crying:

• Hunger.
• Colic.
• Wet diaper or diaper.
• The baby is cold or, conversely, he is hot.
• The child is tired and cannot sleep.
• Fear, anxiety.
• The desire to satisfy the sucking reflex.
• Malaise, illness.
• Response to geomagnetic and weather conditions.

How to eliminate the reasons for a baby's crying

Hunger can be easily relieved by giving your baby the breast or a bottle of milk or formula. It is necessary to feed the baby on demand or follow a schedule and avoid breaks in meals for more than 3-4 hours. For children in the first 3 months of life, breaks between feedings should be no more than 2-3 hours.

It is enough to replace a wet diaper with a clean one, and the baby will immediately stop crying. We must not miss this moment and forget about changing diapers. Staying in wet diapers for a long time threatens not only discomfort, but also inflammation of the skin (diaper rash).

Colic is a very common problem. Fighting them is not easy, but it is possible. In this case it may help:

• massage the tummy clockwise;
• rolling on a ball (the baby lies on his stomach on the ball, and the mother, holding the baby, gently rolls him back and forth);
• anticolic drugs;
• frequent placement on the tummy;
• a warm heating pad or diaper that needs to be applied to the baby’s belly;
• use of special anti-colic bottles.

A frozen baby needs to be warmed up. To do this, it is enough to dress him warmly and carry him in your arms. You can use a heating pad wrapped in a diaper. It is better not to use heaters, as they burn out oxygen in the room, which is very harmful for infant. Their use is advisable only if the room is really very cold.

Often children cry out of a desire to satisfy the sucking reflex. This can happen both during sleep and while awake. In order to calm the baby, it is enough to give him a pacifier, a bottle of water or a breast

When a child is hot, everything needs to be done to eliminate the cause of the heat. If this happens on the street, then you need to go into the shade and let the baby drink water. If possible, remove excess clothing from him. At home, you can turn on the air conditioner or open a window, but make sure that the direct flow of cool air does not hit the baby. It is also necessary to install a regulator on the radiators to prevent excessive heat in the room.

If the baby is tired and cannot sleep from overexcitation, then the mother needs to retire with him in a quiet room, rock him slightly, give breastfeeding, and sing a song. In 99% of cases, these measures will be enough to make the child fall asleep. In a similar way, you can calm a child who is experiencing fear or anxiety.

A child may cry because of some disease, for example, otitis media. In this case, it is difficult to immediately determine the cause. It is necessary to monitor the baby's body temperature. If the crying continues for more than a few hours, then the best solution is to go to the doctor.

Crying can also be caused by geomagnetic storms, low atmospheric pressure, etc. Unfortunately, in this case it is impossible to eliminate the cause; you must be patient and constantly be with the baby, thereby alleviating his ailments.

Why else can a baby cry? How can I help him?

Many children cry while bathing. There may be several reasons - too cold or hot water, fear (especially during the very first baths), discomfort, for example, associated with a cramped bath or other factors. We must remember that bathing should bring joy and pleasure, so a crying child should be immediately taken out of the water and the procedure should be postponed until the next time.

Sometimes babies cry a lot in their sleep. This may be the so-called scanning cry, when the baby checks if the mother is nearby. This is a subconscious reflex, and the child screams unconsciously without even waking up. It’s enough just to take the baby in your arms, give him a breast or a pacifier, and tell him a few kind words, and the baby will immediately calm down.

Also, crying in a dream may be associated with an uncomfortable position. In this case, you need to carefully turn the baby over so that he lies freely and not pinned. You can put it tummy down. This position relieves pain from colic, and many babies intuitively prefer this sleeping position. Also, many children love the position “on their side, slightly falling onto their tummy.” This pose can also relieve colic spasms.

Another common occurrence is crying after feeding. This indicates that the baby is experiencing discomfort. You can carry it vertically, lightly pat it on the back, making it easier for excess air to escape. The baby will immediately stop screaming as soon as he burps air or excess food

Very often, babies cry due to teething. This is inevitable and painful, but it is possible to alleviate the child’s condition. To do this, you can use special teething toys, pain-relieving gels for gums, peeled and washed carrots from the refrigerator (it can only be used for those babies who do not yet have teeth, otherwise the child may bite off a piece and choke). Of course, all these methods provide only temporary relief, so you will have to be patient and wait until the tooth finally erupts.

Children's cries are often associated with uncomfortable clothing - things are tight and small, rough seams rub the skin, poor-quality dye causes allergic itching and rashes, the fabric of the product is unpleasant to the skin. In this case, you need to pay great attention to the children's wardrobe and choose only high-quality children's clothing. It is better to buy a size of things a couple sizes larger than needed. Firstly, such things will definitely not be cramped for the child, and secondly, they will last for a longer time.

Sometimes children cry from loneliness. This happens in those families where the child is not given enough time, and the parents are busy with work and personal matters. What to do in this case? Of course, remember the role of the mother and take care of the baby. The worldview of a one-month-old baby is such that he feels like a part of his mother, her presence and tactile contact are important for his development and psychological comfort great value.

Crying for no apparent reason is common in children who are easily excitable. They experience strong emotions, but cannot yet cope with them on their own due to their immature nervous system. This all results in constant whimpering, whims, and screams.

What to do if your baby cries for no apparent reason

Sometimes a child constantly cries, and the mother has already done everything to make him comfortable, but he does not calm down.

Sound sleep is the best medicine for such babies, but putting them to sleep is not easy. Here are some tips on how to calm and put a screaming baby to sleep:

• Tight swaddling helps many people. Of course, you shouldn’t constantly swaddle your baby. This is harmful and does not contribute to development, but you can use this method during sleep.
• "White noise". It's strange, but many children love monotonous hissing sounds. This could be a hairdryer, a vacuum cleaner, or an out-of-tune radio that does not broadcast any radio station. Now you can even download a music file with such sounds and play it for your little one from your smartphone or mp3 player.
• Many experts are against pacifier training, but it can be a panacea. A huge percentage of children under one year old and older can only fall asleep with it. There is no need to suffer - give your baby a pacifier if he likes it. When he grows up, the need for her will disappear by itself.
• Light rocking in your arms is an ancient and proven way to calm and put a child to sleep. But you don't need to do it too hard and sharply. This is harmful, and the baby may even lose consciousness. Only light and smooth movements with a small amplitude, like a dance. By the way, such a modern gadget as a chaise longue or an electric swing can help here.
• Children sleep most soundly in a kind of cocoon made of a blanket. You need to make a kind of nest by tucking a blanket under the baby’s back and tummy. In this position he will be warm and comfortable, the baby will fall asleep faster and sleep much more peacefully.
• A mother’s voice can have a very good calming effect on a baby. You can sing a lullaby, read poetry, talk to the child in a quiet, calm voice. This will help stop the crying.
• Millions of women have already appreciated the benefits of a sling. In it, the child is as close as possible to the mother, while his posture is quite physiological, and the woman has her hands free. With the help of such a device, it’s easy to rock a baby to sleep if you just put him in a sling and walk back and forth with him.
• Sometimes switching the child's attention helps to distract from crying. For this purpose, you can use rattle toys, clapping your hands, rustling with a bag or paper. Once the baby calms down, it will be easy to put him to sleep.
• Some easily excitable babies are helped to fall asleep by a long walk in the fresh air or a bath followed by a massage.
• The benefits of mother's closeness cannot be underestimated. There is no need to be afraid to carry your baby in your arms. This is natural and normal. Contrary to many opinions, it is impossible to “train” a baby to hold hands. If a child wants to be close to his mother, then this is not a whim, but a natural desire. Any baby feels good and safe next to mommy. This is the most effective way to calm the baby.

If the baby cries often, then you need to be more attentive to him, and the reason will become obvious, and by eliminating it, you can easily achieve peace and quiet in the family. If the cause cannot be eliminated (teeth, geomagnetic conditions), then you need to be patient and survive these moments, they happen to everyone.