Belly-aches – the frequent reason of crying at small children. Every time parents cannot see in such cases a doctor therefore it is necessary to learn to cope quickly with a problem in house conditions.
Instruction
1. Take the child on hands and shake a little. The caress will help the kid to calm down and cease to cry. Only you remember that it is impossible to press too strong the baby to itself or especially to press on his tummy. Other option is to shake the kid in a bed or to wear on hands about the room. Pay attention: rocking is frequent up and down works more soothingly, than here and there, however all this is individual therefore it is better to define reaction of the baby in advance and to understand what option helps it to calm down quicker.
2. Make light massage: put the child on a back, and then stroke his stomach a palm, moving clockwise. If you have cold hands, at first warm them that the baby did not feel discomfort. Such soft massage will calm the child, will weaken pain and will promote a conclusion of the gases which accumulated in intestines which often become the cause of an abdominal distension.
3. Give to the newborn of a little dill water. It was used more than decade ago in cases when it is necessary to weaken belly-ache at the child. It is possible to buy dill water in many pharmacies. It is possible to give this means in small amounts during the day that the kid did not feel tummy pain any more.
4. Try to turn several times the kid from one side on another. Such "remedial gymnastics" allows to accelerate process of a conclusion of gases of intestines, eliminates an abdominal distension. Other option "bicycle" is to do exercise, raising the child's legs serially and pressing them to a breast.
5. Put the child on the breast or a stomach. Contact "skin to skin", according to observations of doctors, often helps to calm the baby. To enhance effect, try to speak gently with the child or to sing to it lullabies.
6. Heat a diaper or a piece of pure fabric and apply to a naked stomach of the child. It is important that material was dry – damp heat in this case will not approach. It is undesirable to use water hot-water bottles as they too heavy and can squeeze a body of the kid too strongly. Good option – having put a warm diaper, in addition to cover the kid with a blanket. It will help to achieve desirable effect. As a result the child will calm down, will relax, and tummy pains will pass quicker.
7. If your child likes to bathe, the bath with special herbs will help it to calm down quicker. Besides, pleasant aromas and heat relax kids, take off pain, improve health in general.