Everyone is familiar with the touching picture of the Madonna with the baby in her arms. And every mother during pregnancy presents this is her communication with a future child. However, reality makes its own adjustments. Crying a child in the first months of life is the only way to communicate with the outside world. Literally in the first days after childbirth, most newly mums are faced with the fact that a newborn baby cries during feeding.
A common misconception is the opinion that the baby cries only when he is hungry, which often pushes young mothers who doubt their ability to lactate, to switch to mixed and artificial feeding. In fact, there are many reasons why a baby cries when feeding. The cry and crying of a child can indicate psychological, physiological and physical discomfort, which he demands to be eliminated.
Why does the child cry?
If an infant is crying when she eats, it can mean that he is worried:
- Abdominal pain. If a newborn baby cries during feeding and knocks with legs, pressing knees to her, arched, this can talk about infantile colic. Immature microflora of the intestine of the newborn and the enzymatic system can not cope with the digestion of food, which provokes excessive gas formation. Help to cope with the baby with these problems can diet for a nursing mother, phytopreparations based on fennel and dill for crumbs, laying on the tummy, his massage and the use of lacto- and bifidobacteria.
- An air bubble in the stomach. This happens if during the feeding the child, together with the milk, swallowed the air, which now bothers him. To help the child, you need to take it vertically in a column, and hold it in this position for several minutes, until the air is gone.
- Ear pain. Otitis is a fairly common disease among children of the first year of life in view of anatomical features of the structure of the nasopharynx. Sometimes this disease can be lethargic without temperature and other symptoms, however, if the child begins to cry sharply while feeding, this is an excuse for suspected otitis. The fact is that swallowing movements with otitis are associated with the onset of acute pain in the ears. To check whether it is so or not, it is advisable to force the tragus of the child's ears into the tragus slightly. At otitis the child reacts to pressing with strong and sharp crying.
- Inflammation of the oral mucosa. If a child sucks and cries, it is likely that the pain in his mouth and throat discomforts him. This can be triggered by pharyngitis or thrush.
- The taste of milk. The sharp taste of breast milk may not please the child, and then he will cry during feeding. At the same time, he can throw his chest, take it again, cry and throw it again. It happens, if my mother ate garlic, onions or sharp foods.
- Lack of milk. If the child cries, when he eats, then maybe he does not have enough milk. To check whether this is actually possible, you can by check weighing (before and after feeding), as well as by counting wet diapers.
- Too fast flow of milk. A large amount of breast milk from a mother can flow too quickly during hot flashes. The child cries at the chest, when he can not adjust to the jet, starts to rush and choke.
- Headache. A child cries when feeding, if his discomfort is caused by neurological disorders. Headaches with hydrocephalic syndrome may increase with swallowing movements. In this case, the problem should be solved with the help of a neurologist specialist who will prescribe an additional examination and recommend treatment.