How do newborns cry?

The article was consulted professionally by Master, Dr Doan Ngoc Quynh Tram – Department of Pediatrics – Newborn – Share99 Nha Trang International Health Hub. Dr Tram has extensive experience in the field of Pediatrics, has trained, participated in many scientific seminars, short-term training courses on pediatrics domestically and internationally. His strengths are the treatment of pathology, care and nurture of premature babies, respiratory diseases, digestion of children and infants.

Colic attacks in infants are often referred to as crying. It is the phenomenon of long-term harassment in babies, between 2-3 weeks and 3 months of age that sometimes last several more months, often starting to suddenly appear in the afternoons, evenings or at night.

1. What is crying?

Every night the child often begins to cry, unpleasant concerns, refuses to sleep peacefully, or there are children who are sleeping sometimes startled to wake up, crying. Children cry at night or in people, foreheads sweat a lot, people are sluggish, tired or drowsy, crying violently and accompanied by signs of the whole body becoming flushed, the back arched, hands tightly grasped and legs shrink toward the tight abdomen, which is a sign of pain.

Signs of recognition of crying children:

  • Crying lasts more than three hours a day
  • Crying three days or more per week
  • Crying for more than three weeks/month

Crying or crying at night will affect the health and development of the child, not only that it affects the health, psychology and sleep of others in the family due to having to stay up at night, not enough sleep leading to fatigue, anxiety and affecting work the next day.

According to experts in pediatrics, so far there is no concrete scientific evidence explaining the causes of crying that lasts for hours in babies at night, and there is no effective treatment yet.

Guess what your child is like through their cries

Children crying at night will affect their health and development

2. Causes of children crying

Crying is common in children under 6 months of age due to increased bowel movements. Normally, air conditioning bowel movements do not cause pain, but suddenly for some reason the bowel movements increase unevenly, leading to severe abdominal pain that causes the child to cry, and the pain stops.

Crying is often caused by children not being adequately cared for every day such as: eating and sleeping without certain hours, during the day or before going to bed, making the nerves nervous, stimulating too strong.

Children with malnourished rickets also cry. Crying children have weak adaptability, prone to external sicactivating.

However, it is necessary to distinguish children crying at night, crying from other common night crying conditions that cause loud, prolonged crying during the night in babies such as:

  • Children with pain
  • Teething children
  • Diapers or clothes worn for babies are too tight
  • Children who are hungry or thirsty
  • Children crying due to incomplete sleep
  • Babies eat too full milk
  • Abdominal pain
  • Children are tired due to strong movement of relatives
  • Allergy to food in your mother's diet

Crying at night babies

There are many different causes of children crying at night

3. What to do when you cry?

Symptoms of crying, prolonged crying in babies are more or less causing anxiety, embarrassment for dads, mothers and especially when babies cry in the afternoon, evening or at night. However, on the advice of medical experts, in addition to the causes of pathology, in cases where the baby is breastfeeding well, without losing weight, and the child is still developing normally, the most important thing when seducing the child is that the mothers must remain calm and comfortable, reducing the discomfort of the baby by expressing love for the baby to feel as if :

  • Hold the baby in her lap or place her next to her so that she can feel the heartbeat and warmth from the mother.
  • Mother gently sings the baby lullaby with lullabies or gives the baby tender music.
  • Place the baby to sleep in a quiet, quiet space, creating a comfortable feeling when sleeping. In an exception, it is possible to familiarize the child with light volume noises.
  • Regularly massage, gently massage the whole body and abdomen for the baby with herbal essential oils …
  • Avoid stressful moods in the mother when breastfeeding, thinking that the cause of crying in the baby is hunger, and it is also not recommended to force the baby to overeating if the baby has objectionable actions. Overeating will cause the baby to cry from flatulence or abdominal pain.
  • Do not give any medication to your baby without the advice of pediatricians.

In summary, crying in babies does not require specific treatment, unless mothers notice signs of abnormalities in the health of the child such as: crying lasts almost 4 hours, crying is accompanied by fever, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, the child shows signs of fatigue, it is necessary to take the child to medical facilities. On the contrary, if after prolonged crying, the child returns to normal, happy, healthy, good feeding, mothers need peace of mind and try to calm down waiting for the first 3 months of their baby's life to gradually pass.

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About: John Smith

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