Baby Health Advice

Although crying is a normal form of communication in the infant, is one of the problems that most often of concern to prospective parents. Certainly it is not always easy to ascertain the cause of the tears or comfort the baby, but in practice it is a less complicated than it often seems beforehand.

After the baby’s crying is always a need or an unfulfilled desire. The child cries to give you what you can not get by itself, or may ask to speak, or cry because something is bothering you, but also cry when you need to download accumulated tension. These are the three benefits they can get through the tears:

Help: when hungry, wet or uncomfortable, or need company.

Complaint: some kind of pain, but also by excessive noise or stimulation.

Sufficiency: to release the tensions that have been accumulating.

It is therefore normal (and indispensable to the survival of our species) that babies cry. During the first two or three months is considered normal to do so from one to three hours daily, as part of their adaptation to life outside the womb, without this meaning that their parents are not caring properly.

WHY CRY

Apart from tears caused by illness or pain, that with few exceptions is accompanied by other signs that betray the common causes of crying in a baby are:

Hunger: No matter how much time has passed since the last shot or the regular who has acquired the child crying, you have to offer the breast or bottle. Sometimes you just need to suck something and settle down quickly with your finger or pacifier.

Cold or hot: This is usually warmer than cold. You have to check the temperature in the neck and if it seems warm, remove a piece of clothing.

Discomfort: A bad position, a too tight clothing or a fold of clothing may bother.