It's tough to listen to your baby cry. Sometimes they stretch out their arms and legs and stiffen, then draw up again. They may even turn bright red from crying. First, cover the basics. You can try feeding, burping and changing your baby. Maybe it's time for a nap, a change in position or a session in the rocking chair. Perhaps your baby needs a little more — or a little less — attention.
If crying is due to boredom or loneliness, it may be helpful to touch, hold, and talk to the infant more and place the infant within sight. Place baby-safe toys where the child can see them. If crying is due to sleep disturbance, wrap the baby firmly in a blanket before putting the infant to bed. For excessive crying in infants due to cold, dress the infant warmly or adjust the temperature. Typically, if adults are cold, the baby is cold also.Also look for signs of illness, such as fever, vomiting, or changes in eating or sleeping patterns.
Your baby might be crying if feel hungry ,needs a fresh diaper, too cold or hot condition, not feeling comfort ,holding her/ his so much time, overwhelmed by too much activity etc. Take her somewhere calm and quiet and let her vent for a while, and then see if you can get her to sleep. Take a walk. Take a deep breath and count to 10.Put her in motion or massage. Repeat a calm word or phrase, such as, "Take it easy.” If still crying, consider checking her temperature to make sure she /he isn't ill.
A baby cries when there is something wrong and crying is the only way for help. The causes may be as follows-
# Baby is hungry, dirty, lonely, uncomfortable or afraid.
# Lactation crisis of mother: The baby at the age of about 2-3 months, temporarily outgrown the milk supply and demand to be breast fed frequently. Advise the mother to give frequent feeding rather not to start supplements. Discuss ways to increase production of milk.
# Baby is sick: The crying pattern is altered and examination may find out the nature of the illness.
# Abdominal colic: Sometimes it is called "three months colic" as it rarely persists beyond 3 months of age. The baby usually has the colic during evening hours. The attack usually begins suddenly; the cry is loud and more or less continuous and may persist for several hours. The face is flushed, may be circumoral pallor; the abdomen distended and tense; the legs are drawn up on the abdomen, the hands are clenched. The attack may terminate only when the infant is completely exhausted, but often there is apparent relief with the passage of feces or flatus.
It may associate with hunger and with swallowed air. Overfeeding, high carbohydrate, intestinal allergy may cause colic. Careful physical examination is important to eliminate the possibility of intussusceptions, strangulated hernia, hair in the infant's eye, otitis, pyelonephritis, or other disorders.
Holding the baby upright or permitting the baby to lie prone helps occasionally. Prevention sought by improving feeding techniques, including burping, providing a stable emotional environment, identifying possible allergenic foods in the infant's or nursing mother's diet, and avoiding underfeeding or overfeeding. A supportive, sympathetic physician is important in successfully resolving the problem.
# Working mother: The mother can alter the rhythm for breast-feeding from day to night. She may express the breast milk to feed the baby during her absence. She may express at office to maintain lactation. Building up crèches also can help the mother to continue breast-feeding for her baby.
Riverton clinical nurse and co-researcher Claire Halle said parents felt picking up their crying baby would create "bad habits" which would impact negatively on their child's behavior in the future.
A lot of parents are unsure if they should pick up their baby when their baby cries. Parents were choosing to ignore their crying newborn for fear it would "spoil" their baby to pick them up.” Parents should listen to their instincts and pick up their newborn babies when they cry", Queensland University of Technology researcher Professor Karen Thorpe said.
The cry signal has enormous potential diagnostic value; for example, very high pitched cries can tell us that something may be wrong with the infant, so the cry signal can be an early warning that leads to further neurological testing. But parent perception of their infant's cry may be affected by conditions such as depression or age of parent which can lead to action or no action which may be out of sync with the infant's needs. The most extreme case is "shaken baby syndrome" where the cry triggers aggression rather than concern in the caretaker
Parents tend to understand the nature of their babies' cries well, and stress the importance of parental reaction to cries.
Parents can usually tell the difference between pain and non-pain cries which guides the urgency of their care taking, and helps parents deal with infants with colic.
Experts found that severe depressive symptoms in the mothers were related to fussy or difficult infant temperament, more parenting stress, lower parental self-esteem and more family-functioning problems. Examples of family dysfunction might include poor communication, confusion over roles, difficulty in solving family problems, poor family interaction and a lack of emotional responsiveness. Studies have shown that depression can alter the way a mother perceives and responds to her baby's cry signals.
Mums who are stressed often see what their baby does as negative so they may interpret their baby's crying as being naughty, when in fact this is normal behavior. They may even feel the baby is stopping them from living the life they really want to live.
If parents or caregivers cannot find the cause of the inconsolable crying of an infant, they might react sharply and shake the baby, causing brain damage and, as a result, the infant stops crying, explained study leader Concepcion Ruiz Rodriguez of the University of Granada.
Although the seriousness of the brain damage depends on the frequency, intensity and duration of the shake, there are other minor injuries observed due to this syndrome, such as irritability, lethargy, convulsions, vomiting or lack of appetite, and others that are more serious such as eye injury and broken bones.
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