Causes of children's tears

Imagine that you were pulled out of comfortable conditions and sent to live in a foreign country, where everything is new and unusual. Something like this feels like a newborn who was recently born: for nine months he lived in the stomach, not needing anything. Once in an unknown environment, the baby experiences tremendous stress, and his only way to communicate is through crying.

Why is a month old baby crying

In the first weeks of life, babies sleep a lot, and wake up mainly to feed. During these periods, they are more often worried about physiological reasons: discomfort from a full diaper, hunger, thirst, pain in the intestines. A hungry child has its own "call sign" - it opens its mouth, greedily swallowing air, and turns its head in search of a breast. Babies are often troubled by tummies, their digestive system is still far from adult's, and even breast milk is not always easily digested. Households often diagnose colic for many overly capricious children, but do not forget about the so-called “three” rule: if a child is worried about colic, then he cries at least three hours a day and three days a week. Plus, colic crying starts as unexpectedly as it ends. If you still sin on colic, you should consult a doctor, he will advise herbal decoctions or drops to help a small tummy.

Why does a child wake up at night and cry

Night vigils are one of the main maternal problems. But worst of all, fragmented sleep leads to a deterioration in the general condition of the baby, a capricious mood and an accumulation of fatigue. Let's try to figure out the reasons for night awakenings in order to establish a baby's night sleep:

• The most common cause of crying at night is the wrong association to sleep. Unfortunately, babies are born without the skill of falling asleep on their own. Parents, in order to calm and lull their child to sleep, resort to various methods - they pump, lull them to sleep, give a bottle or a nipple, and carry them in a car. Using such “helpers” do not forget that waking up the child will require the restoration of the usual conditions of falling asleep. That is, if he fell asleep in your arms, rocked on the fitball, when the sleep cycle changes, waking up in his crib, he will be very unhappy and will want to be rocked again.
• Hunger or thirst is also a common cause of crying at night, especially in the early months.
• Habitual hunger. If the baby is fed day after day at the same time at night, he will wake up from the feeling of the usual hunger. Feed a newborn baby on demand, but if your baby is more than six months old, and he wakes up every hour at night, you should think about whether he really wants to eat. In order to fight the habitual hunger, it is worth gradually postponing the feeding time, trying to calm the baby with other methods.
• Inappropriate temperature regime, in other words, the child is hot or cold. Remember, the optimal room temperature should vary from 18-22 degrees, and humidity - from 50%.

Why does the baby constantly cry

If your baby cries all day long, it may be sick. Take your temperature, check your throat, ears, and see your doctor for any suspicious symptoms. After six months (and sometimes even earlier), the baby may be worried about the pain from teething. During these periods, worsening of night sleep, bad mood, whims is possible.

Overwork and hyper-tiredness are common causes of restless, whining behavior. The nervous system of babies is not yet able to withstand long periods of wakefulness, check the table below in order to know for sure if the baby is overworked. If the baby fits in and wakes up with tears, this is the main sign of overwork: in this case, reduce the waking time and help the baby sleep off.

How to understand why a child is crying

As the child grows up, the spectrum of interests of the child increases, the intonations of crying expand: and if in the first weeks the baby is capricious more often for physiological reasons, then after three months it is easier to determine by the manner of sobbing whether the baby is screaming in pain, or he is simply bored with the game. Do not forget that in the first six months of life, the baby does not cry for no reason. Therefore, if you are worried about a strong, uncharacteristic crying of a child, immediately contact your pediatrician.

Health to you and your kids!