Children usually don't cry for no reason. If they keep crying, it must be the cause of discomfort. So what is the reason why eight or nine year old children cry in the middle of the night? The following is the reason why the child crying in the middle of the night I carefully arranged for you. Let's have a look.
Calcium deficiency
Children who cry at night often lack calcium. In the past, due to the lack of medical knowledge, people thought that children cried at night. They pasted a note "emperor, emperor, I have a night crying Lang in my family", and the children will get better. Obviously, this method will not be effective. In addition to crying at night, children with calcium deficiency will also have corresponding manifestations, such as sweating, occipital alopecia, square skull, late closure of fontanel, beading of ribs and so on. Supplement vitamin D and calcium for children, and let children bask in more sun, children will be fine.
Frighten
After children are frightened, they often wake up from their sleep and cry at night. When children cry, they are often accompanied by fear. In life, it is not difficult to find out what causes children to be frightened. The solution is to comfort the child, tell the child that there is nothing to be afraid of, and temporarily don't let the child directly contact the objects or people that make him afraid. Slowly, the child will fall asleep safely.
Illness
During the illness of many diseases, such as colds and various acute infectious diseases, children cry after going to bed. Some chronic diseases, such as anemia and tuberculosis, can also make children cry in sleep because of discomfort. In addition, children with stuffy nose and pinworm disease often make children cry at night. Due to the disease, as long as the primary disease is cured, the child will fall asleep safely.
Clothing and quilt factors
If the child is covered too thick, it will make the child irritable due to heat and cry; If the quilt is covered too little, the cold stimulation will also make the child cry. If the mattress is laid unevenly, the small clothes are too tight or the lace of the clothes cuts the child, it will make the child cry. In addition, you should also check whether there is something on the bed that cuts or stabs the child. As long as you find the reason, the child will stop crying when he feels comfortable
Starvation
Regular crying is related to children's hunger. For breastfeeding, the mother doesn't have to stick to the feeding interval. When the child is hungry, she will let the child eat. When the child falls asleep while breastfeeding, she can play the child's little foot to let the child eat and sleep again. For artificially fed children, we should consider appropriately increasing the amount of feeding, and check the quality of milk, whether there is too much water, etc.
Urinary suffocation
Older children are trained to control urination, but they don't get up and pee by themselves at night. Sometimes children say pee, but many times, children cry to show that they want to pee. As long as parents feel this Law and urinate for their children, their children will continue to fall asleep. If parents don't understand the meaning of their child crying, the child may wet the bed.
Day and night reversed
Some children sleep more during the day and are full of energy at night. When their parents ignore him due to fatigue, the children will cry and protest. The correction method is to reduce the child's sleep time during the day and tease the child more. The child's sleep will be improved at night. After a period of time, the child's life has a regular pattern, he will be excited during the day and sleep at night.
Need caress
Some children are playing coquettish when crying. They want to use crying to attract their parents' attention and let their parents hug themselves or caress them. The parents of these children are often too busy with work and less time to take care of their children, or one-sided emphasis on the cultivation of their children's "self-reliance", resulting in their children's "skin hunger". As long as parents give their children more caress, their children's needs will be met and they will no longer cry.
Children's internal factors also have an impact on sleep: brain nerve development is not yet mature. The child has not established a fixed work and rest schedule physically. The regulation of baby's biological clock day and night depends on the cooperation of baby's physiological maturity. Children's natural temperament tends to be overly sensitive, irregular, high or low reaction intensity. It not only takes a long time to establish the regularity of their own physiological clock, but also it is difficult to adapt to the changes of the environment. After removing the factors causing poor sleep, sometimes there will be mild crying or irritability every 2 ~ 3 hours. When you are upset, you can pat or touch the child to make the baby fall asleep again. Don't hug and coax him immediately, or feed and drink water for him. This will form the bad habit of children waking up often at night. Some normal children with nerve types have poor sleep at night, but as long as they eat and grow, they don't have to worry too much.
In addition, a quiet and comfortable sleeping place should be arranged. The room temperature is appropriate, the air is fresh, the thickness of bedding is appropriate, and the light can be darker; Cultivate good sleeping habits, don't get too excited or do a lot of exercise before going to bed, and don't scold children. Turn off the lights at 9 o'clock every night. Everyone sleeps or goes to another room to create a quiet environment for him to sleep. It's best for babies to sleep on their side, especially when they are full. Lying on their stomach is easy to press their mouth and nose and affect their breathing. Lying on their back will cause choking cough due to spitting milk. And gradually make this a habit, not easy to break this habit.
Don't tease her at night. Let her sleep after feeding. Don't worry about crying. It will naturally form a habit in a few days.
1. Hungry or overfed
Generally speaking, babies may have to eat milk every two to three hours, but some mothers prefer to let their babies eat milk every three or four hours to develop regular living habits. For babies who can't stand hunger, this method is undoubtedly very painful, so they are often angry and cry, and they will gobble up when they eat milk, so that they drink too much air, which will cause stomachache, I had to cry again.
To make matters worse, some parents thought the baby was crying because they didn't eat enough, so they fed the milk again! But you know what? The baby's neural development is not yet mature and still retains the ability of sucking reflex. As long as anything is put into the baby's small mouth, he will suck hard. As a result, he will eat too much milk, and the baby's small stomach will become more and more swollen, and then cry because he feels uncomfortable.
Solution
In the end, we should feed milk every few hours, depending on the specific situation of the baby. As for the baby who always drinks milk quickly and urgently every time, we can pat his back and exhaust when he is half fed to avoid inhaling too much air.
2. Calcium deficiency
If the baby is not actively treated for calcium deficiency, he is likely to suffer from rickets. The baby with calcium deficiency is often restless at night, and will also have symptoms such as sweating, occipital alopecia, square skull, late closure of fontanelle, string of ribs and so on.
Countermeasures calcium supplement
Supplement vitamin D and calcium for your baby, take your baby to the sun, and the phenomenon of baby crying at night will be improved. If there are signs of severe rickets, get help from a professional pediatrician.
3. Scare
Taking your baby to a crowded and noisy public place during the day is easy to frighten your baby. In the middle of the night, you will suddenly wake up, cry and feel uneasy, and your expression is very nervous, which is mostly due to being too excited or stimulated during the day.
When some babies need comfort during their growth, skin touch can calm the baby, but some parents have less time to take care of their children due to their busy work during the day. At night, the baby will cry to attract the attention of their parents and let their parents hug themselves for comfort.
Countermeasures: spend more time with your baby
At ordinary times, take your baby less to noisy places to avoid direct contact with objects or people that make him afraid. Comfort him after waking up and tell him that there is nothing to be afraid of, so that the baby can sleep safely. Parents should try their best to spend more time with their baby, so that the baby's "skin hunger" can be met, so that he won't cry at night.
4. Flatulence
As the digestive function is not perfect, the baby will have abdominal distension from time to time.
Solution
After feeding, pat the baby's back for exhaust, or wipe some special anti flatulence ointment for infants and young children containing peppermint oil. If your baby often has flatulence, please consider changing a formula, while breastfeeding mothers eat less gas producing foods (such as beans, soybean milk and sweet potatoes).
5. Want to sleep
Some babies appear fidgety before going to bed. If the baby's eyelids look heavy or rub his eyes all the time, it means he wants to go to bed.
Solution
Please provide a warm and quiet sleeping environment for your baby.
6. Mother ate heavy food
Breastfeeding mothers may be affected and cry if they eat foods with heavy taste, such as pepper, onion, curry, etc.
Solution
Breastfeeding mothers try to avoid eating stimulating or caffeinated and alcoholic foods and drinks, so as not to affect the baby's emotional response.
7. Wake up with urine
Drink too much water before going to bed, or the milk powder is washed too thin, and the baby is awakened by urine at night. It can't be expressed in words, but can only be expressed by crying. In addition, wet diapers stimulate the baby to sleep.
Countermeasures to train the baby's urination law
Mothers should gradually train their baby's urination rules so that the baby can gradually control urination. Don't give your baby too much water 1 ~ 2 hours before going to bed. If the baby cries because of urgent urination, as long as the mothers urinate for the baby, the baby can continue to sleep. If the light is not on, it will not stimulate the baby to urinate at night.
8. The diaper is wet
This situation is easy to judge. At present, many diapers have the function of urine moisture display.
Solution
Pay attention to whether the diapers have expanded, so as to replace them in time.
9. Have emotional needs
Babies sometimes miss the warm feeling in their mother's stomach, so they get their mother's hug and care through crying.
Solution
Hugging can effectively calm the baby's mood. You might as well hug him more.
10. The environment is too noisy
Too much noise, vibration or visual stimulation will also make the baby uneasy and crying.
Solution
Moderate comfort or gentle touch can effectively control the baby's mood.
11. Too cold or too hot
The baby's ability to regulate body temperature is not strong enough. Overheating or supercooling of the ambient temperature will make the baby feel anxious or uncomfortable.
Solution
Try to maintain a comfortable temperature (22 ℃ ~ 24 ℃) indoors and add or reduce clothes for your baby when you go out.
12. Colic
When colic occurs, the baby's small face will swell red and his lower limbs will curl up on his stomach. This situation is usually very urgent, which is common in the afternoon and at night, especially in newborns aged 3 ~ 6 weeks. Of course, the mother should not be too nervous. When the baby is about 3 months old, the incidence of colic will be greatly reduced.
Solution
There are some magic weapons to deal with the baby's colic. You can pick up the baby, shake it regularly and gently, rub some anti flatulence ointment on the baby's small stomach and massage it, or put a warm towel on the baby's stomach, sing and take a warm bath, which can effectively relieve the baby's discomfort. If the above methods are not effective, please go to the hospital for further diagnosis as soon as possible and use some antihistamines, sedatives and other drugs under the guidance of doctors.