Care for the newborn child – business very not simple, especially when at parents is few experience. The most difficult is when the baby cries, and the reason of his frustration is unclear. Parents begin to panic and make mistakes. There are several reasons of children's crying and if to watch closely the kid, it is possible to decipher his signs.
Main reasons for crying of newborns
In the first months of life through crying the baby tries to communicate with parents. Thus, it signals about what wants to eat that to it hot or cold, painfully or alone.
It is not necessary to be afraid of children's crying, the main thing is to define and remove its cause. Over time many mothers and fathers begin to understand what the baby "tells" them about. The most common causes of baby crying:
- feeling of hunger;
- pain, most often is gripes in a stomach;
- discomfort;
- fatigue, desire to sleep;
- fear and loneliness.
Newborn's food
The most common cause of crying of the baby is a feeling of hunger. As soon as the kid got hungry, he the shout signals parents that feeding time has come.
Babies have very small ventricle therefore they need to be fed often, but gradually. There is an easy way to check whether the kid is hungry. Bend a little finger and accurately touch a corner of a children's mouth. If the baby turns the head towards touch and opens a mouth, so it is hungry. Listen to crying, "hungry shout" louder, lingering and intensive.
Usually after receiving food the baby calms down, can fall asleep. But if "hungry crying" repeats too often, it is necessary to address the pediatrician. Perhaps, the kid receives less food and he needs to be fed more often, or maternal milk "empty" and the child just does not gorge on. Main problem of the children who are on artificial nutrition, selection of the mix suitable them.
Even at the adjusted food the newborn can have painful feelings in a stomach (colic). Their main reason – yet not smoothly running work of digestive system of the kid and a congestion of gases. At gripes the kid when crying reddens, squeezes legs, and then sharply extends them, it has an intense firm tummy.
Make to the child massage and give medicine, the benefit now on sale exists a set of medicamentous means which will help to save the newborn from kolik.
Additional problems of small appetite and crying of the baby: unpleasant taste of maternal milk, improper mix (for children bottle-fed babies), inflammation of an ear or a stuffy nose at the newborn.
Discomfort
The kid can cry because of physical discomfort. Treat unpleasant feelings: wet diapers, rough seams on clothes, too hard swaddling, an inconvenient pose or the wrong temperature condition indoors.
If the baby when crying fidgets and tries moderately the infantile opportunities to change a pose, most likely he needs to be swaddled, or to lay more conveniently.
If the kid cries right after disguise, it is worth examining his clothes regarding rough seams.
As one more essential reason of discomfort the wrong temperature condition can serve in the room. Try to maintain optimum temperature of +20-23 °C. Buy a hygrometer and you watch humidity level in the house, it is an important indicator on which the good health and health of all family members depends.
Except physical, there is psychological a discomfort. The baby can cry to draw to himself attention of parents if to it it is terrible or lonely. "The call differs in small duration, the kid begins to cry and at once calms down as soon as the adult approaches it. Some experts do not advise at the first sounds of crying to take the baby on hands, to talk rather simply tenderly to it or to stroke.
There is still a protest crying in case something is not pleasant to the baby, it angrily notifies on it. It can be dissatisfied when to it cut nails, clean a nose or carry out other care procedures.
Sometimes the kid cries with overexcitation if he is in an unusual situation, or around it there are a lot of strangers. Try to observe a day regimen, hold to "plan" and the set operations procedure. "Regime" children are quieter and balanced, they feel protected.
"Painful" crying
Infantile crying can signal about problems with health. Attentively examine the kid: monotonous crying, slackness, pallor or excessive redness, heat – an occasion to address the doctor.
Also the kid can be capricious and is bad feel after an inoculation or at skin damages (natertost, redness, an intertrigo).
You should not dismiss postnatal injuries, at their existence the regular medical control is necessary for the baby.
"Toilet affairs"
Sometimes babies cry at defecation and urination. Happens that kids are just frightened process, but the similar behavior signals a thicket about problems with health:
- infections of an urinogenital system;
- problems with arrangement of extreme flesh therefore the stagnant and painful phenomena are shown;
- gases and locks;
- improper feeding;
- inflammatory diseases of intestines.
Attentively observe the kid if crying repeats at each depletion of a bladder or intestines, and in Calais there are mucous or bloody allocations, address the pediatrician and make necessary tests.
The kid cries during bathing
Water procedures are pleasant to not all newborns, there are remains which suit the real hysterics in the bathroom. There are several reasons affecting behavior of the kid when bathing:
- fear of water;
- too big bathtub;
- uncomfortable water temperature;
- damages or rash on skin;
- uncomfortable position.
Before bathing provide comfortable conditions in the bathroom. Optimum water temperature for bathing of the newborn – 34-37 °C. Buy the special thermometer and surely take water temperature before bathing.
If parents made the decision to temper the kid, it is necessary to lower water temperature gradually. The main condition – not to overheat the baby and not to frighten it, having shipped in too cool water.
The kid can cry with a fright if he in principle is afraid of water, and the bathtub too big and seems to the baby by the real sea. The uncomfortable position can become one more reason of discontent of the child. Inexperienced parents often are nervous and too strong keep the kid in water that can cause him unpleasant feelings.
Besides, during bathing even small injuries of skin can cause discomfort.
Baby's cry in night
If the kid often cries at night, but he has no problems with health, it is necessary to examine its "berth" for a start. Perhaps matrasik for the baby too rigid or a blanket too warm.
Also can serve as the reasons of night crying: bad dream, hunger, absence of parents nearby, alarm or nervous overfatigue, to the child too hot or cold.
Dress the baby "on weather", you should not muffle up it strongly. You watch temperature and level of humidity in the children's room, regularly air the room and do damp cleaning.
It is not necessary to wait so far the child will become exhausted and will fall asleep, approach him, take on hands or sit down nearby, stroke and rock to sleep. Observe a day regimen, it will reduce the probability that the baby will mix day with a night.
If nothing helps and the baby for hours cries days without a break, do not tighten and address the pediatrician. Perhaps, it will be required to undergo inspection for clarification of the reason of concern of the newborn.