The baby gets hysterical and cries so loud that the neighbors below are already starting to knock on the battery, and you yourself are ready to cry with it? No panic! The baby may have good reasons to cry. In this article we will tell you what happens to a child who starts screaming and how to calm him down. The main thing - do not ignore children's hysteria, no matter what provokes it. Especially close attention should be given to babies up to a year old: they don’t speak yet, therefore only with the help of a cry can they “tell” their mother what is bothering them. If you take a crying baby in your arms and comfort you, you will not spoil him at all.
1. The baby is hurt
Babies are often worried stomach crampsand they are very painful. If this is the cause of childhood hysteria, then the baby shouts loudly and piercingly, blushes, knocks with his feet.
Perhaps the baby is hurt due to the fact that he teething - in this case, the cry will be constant, "aching", while the child will pull everything into his mouth.
Sometimes infants develop otitis media as a complication of intrauterine infection. In this case, the children cry piercingly, without stopping, and from time to time desperate cries appear.
Solution to the problem: observe the condition of the baby, put it on the chest, wash with warm water. If the cry is getting louder, call an ambulance. Perhaps the child really needs the help of a doctor, but you yourself in any case will not be able to make a diagnosis.
2. He wants to eat
A common cause of childhood hysteria is that the baby is hungry. It may seem to adults that a child should be full, because he ate only an hour ago. Not for nothing that pediatricians recommend "feeding on demand." Newborn babies may again want to eat even half an hour after they have eaten.
If a child is really hungry, he does not just cry, but also opens his mouth and pulls his hands, as if looking for a chest.
All you need to do in this situation is to feed the baby, even if it seems to you that he is full.
3. He overworked
Adults often think that babies simply can’t get tired (it would seem, well, why a newborn baby can get tired). However, newborn children are often overworked, because everything around them is new and unknown - people, sounds, movements. If the child was awake for only an hour, and already began to yawn, close his eyes, whimper, then cry loudly and monotonously, he was clearly tired.
What needs to be done in this situation: pick up the baby in your arms. The warmth of your body and the familiar heartbeat will remind the child of how he lived in his mother’s stomach, this will calm him down.Ventilate the room to let in fresh air - the baby will be able to breathe deeper, more oxygen will begin to flow to the brain. If the TV is working, turn it off. Provide the child with silence and sing a lullaby.
4. The child is bored
Also often the cause of childhood tears becomes ordinary boredom. With his cry, the baby is trying to inform parents that he was lonely, bored and sad, tired of just lying down and looking at the wall or rattles. In such cases, the crying is intermittent: the baby periodically subsides, as if waiting for her mother to come now, and then again begins to “call her”. If a child is not paid attention for a long time, he begins to cry very loudly and continuously.
To reassure the baby in this case is simple: take him in your arms and walk around the house, tell something, entertain.
5. He feels discomfort
If the baby is in a wet or crowded diaper, of course, he will start screaming, because he is uncomfortable. An uncomfortable seam on the vest, and an uncomfortable position in the crib or stroller, even a baby who has fallen under the clothes that pierce delicate skin, can also cause hysteria in a child.
Solution to the problem: check Is it time to change the diaper, try to change the pose - put the baby on his tummy, vilify vertically.
We also read: how to understand the reasons for the crying baby
Anna Sergeyevna Fedyaeva, a neonatologist, an employee of the department of pathology of newborns and premature babies in the Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 1 of Nizhny Novgorod, tells how to assess the causes of anxiety of the baby. When to consult a doctor:
Everything is right!
An attentive mother herself will deal with types of crying in a few days / weeks.