A 5 month old child screams loudly before going to bed. Why does a baby cry a lot before going to bed: reasons and ways to improve your baby’s bedtime routine

Lyudmila Sergeevna Sokolova

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Article last updated: 03/31/2019

When a child is born, parents want to believe that their child will eat well, sleep well, develop quickly, and have little pain. Unfortunately, the reality is far from ideal. A parent’s heart breaks when a mom or dad hears their child’s heartbreaking cry. I immediately want to turn to the classics. Who is guilty? So what should I do? Why does the baby break?

For a 3-month-old baby, crying is the only way to notify the world that something is wrong with him.

What exactly is a child’s favorite thing before going to bed? For what reason does he cry while falling asleep or constantly wakes up crying? Let's try to figure it out.

Features of sleep of a 3-month-old baby

• superficiality;
• sensitivity;
• reverse alternation of sleep phases;
• lack of time of day recognition.

Dream infant more superficial than an adult and more sensitive - this is absolutely normal. Any person's sleep consists of 2 phases deep sleep at the beginning of the phase and restless (rapid eye movement) sleep at the end. For babies under six months, everything is exactly the opposite.

In a dream, a child can smile, laugh, cry (sob), and toss and turn intensely. At the same time, his eyes may be slightly open. There is no need to rock him to sleep, he is sleeping. And there is no need to worry about this either. This phase is necessary for the nervous system to function adequately. A baby does not know about the change of day and night, he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired, he needs to be accustomed to the regime accepted in human society. If for some reason it turns out that the baby slept for a long period of time several times during the day and walked around at night, he will continue to behave this way unless you try to retrain him. Therefore, if you are trying to lull a child who has slept well during the day, expect a roar.

Peculiarities of the psyche of a 3-month-old infant

The newborn's nervous system is not mature enough to short time to cope with the volume of data that has fallen upon her. His psyche is protected from overload by long sleep. If there is too much information and emotions, by the evening the nervous system is overloaded and “goes into overdrive.” The child would be glad to switch off and fall asleep, but he cannot. He tries to relieve excess tension by crying. One can especially clearly trace the dependence of crying before bed, while falling asleep, or during sleep on new impressions. For example, relatives came to visit, cuddled the baby, and lisped. The child liked everything, he behaved perfectly, and before going to bed he threw a tantrum for several hours, did not fall asleep after feeding, and calmed down after 24.00. This is a classic example of the nervous system reacting to too many new experiences.

In such a situation, there is an opinion that the child has been “jinxed.” Psychologically, this opinion is not entirely groundless. Not in the sense that someone has a “heavy” look, or some grandmother is running around the house with the head of a severed rooster. And the fact is that too much information that bombards a child with the arrival of people unfamiliar to him leads to overstimulation of his nervous system (new smells, new voices, different energy). The baby's psyche simply cannot cope. He needs to “discharge” somehow. And he reacts in the only way available to him - he cries.

Even when you are walking with your child, it is better to keep him “facing you” most of the time. The baby, of course, is interested in looking at everything around him, he may even “insist” that you carry him “facing away from you.” But this must be done very moderately, since for a baby such a large overview means unlimited access to external information, which arrives at all analyzers at too high a speed and without interruption. Some kids even switch off and fall asleep from an overdose of information, “hanging” from their mother’s arm.

When the mother holds the baby facing her, he can bury his face in her, thus reducing the flow of information when he gets tired. Probably many have noticed that when a child approaches stranger, he, as if embarrassed, hides his face in his mother’s chest. Thus, he isolates himself from information that he is not ready to process. Too much information is just as bad as too little information. It inhibits the adaptive functions of the body, the development of the psyche and nervous system.

If the child eats normally, defecates, urinates, no visible reasons no, but you often carry your baby “facing the world”; don’t be surprised that he often cries before bed even after feeding, while falling asleep and during sleep, sleeps restlessly and constantly wakes up. For 3 one month old baby information (at the level of emotions, impressions) needs to be dosed. And increase its volume gradually.

A child can be absolutely healthy, not overloaded with anything, his parents follow his routine, and yet he cries before going to bed. The baby eats normally, falls asleep after feeding, but then wakes up roaring and “boils water” for a long time. This is possible if the psychological climate of the family is in a state of storm. Children are very sensitive to the emotions of their parents, especially their mother. Her nervousness is transmitted to the baby and affects the quality of his sleep.

What makes an active baby whiny?

Many parents complain that their child often cries before bed even after feeding. Some babies cry for a long time. Why is this happening?

There may be many reasons, but if you asked a child and he could answer in a language that adults could understand, it would all come down to three simple things:

• hurts;
• eat;
• sleep (but I can’t sleep).

At the age of 3-3.5 to 5-5.5 months, parents often complain that the child cries before bed or while falling asleep. At 3 months he may still be bothered by colic. If the tummy hurts, the baby will not be able to sleep, and even after warming up on his mother’s chest, he will whine in his sleep. It is also not surprising that without carminatives, the baby sleeps poorly and constantly wakes up. Usually by this age observant mothers additional features understand whether the child’s stomach hurts or not. And the pediatrician is already provided with information about which remedy is best to give him.

It is believed that a baby's first teeth appear by the age of six months. If mom took multivitamins and specialized complexes with vitamin D, I can start teething at 4 months. In some cases, babies are born with teeth or they appear at 1-2 months, although this is not considered the norm. In any case, teething is not a one-day process. The gums may periodically swell and itch. It bothers the child, makes him nervous system more sensitive to external stimuli (more excitable) and disrupts sleep, the baby may constantly wake up, twist its head, as if trying to scratch its gums.

In case of difficult birth, caesarean section or fetal hypoxia, the baby may have neurological problems. For example, increased intracranial pressure which is accompanied by headaches. If the child is maternity hospital or in the first month after discharge for some reason they did not do the mandatory neurosonography, it needs to be done. Perhaps, based on the results of the examination, the reason for the child’s prolonged crying before bed will become clear.

If your child cries all the time before going to bed and does not calm down long time, and it is difficult to rock him to sleep or he shudders a lot when falling asleep, constantly wakes up or wakes up crying, his chin sometimes trembles, show him to a neurologist.

Many parents are in no hurry to show their baby to specialists because they think he will “outgrow it.” If there was intrauterine infection, difficult childbirth, fetal hypoxia, the child may experience an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain (sometimes its amount is insignificant, sometimes hydrocephalus develops) or the newborn may develop cysts in the brain for the same reasons. Such cysts resolve within 6-12 months, some without medical intervention. But it is up to a specialist to decide whether treatment is necessary. A child who has “outgrown” the problem by the age of six months may have problems in the future.

If a child is hungry, he will not be able to sleep. Children infancy are unable to fight the feeling of hunger. The child eats when he wants and cries when he is hungry. Even if you somehow manage to rock the baby to sleep, after 20-30 minutes he will wake up and cry with even greater ferocity.

If a child eats well, is not too overloaded with information, does not have respiratory diseases, but still often wakes up crying, sobs and twitches in his sleep, how can this be explained? The initial stage of rickets. Rickets is another reason why a child may cry before bed, in his sleep, or wake up frequently. It manifests itself in the form of increased fearfulness, obvious signs anxiety without significant reasons, irritability and crying before bed. When falling asleep or during sleep, babies shudder violently.

The first thing that comes to mind when a baby cries is that he is hungry. But he doesn’t eat, or eats little and continues to cry after feeding. But these can be wet diapers or an overflowing disposable diaper; they can cause not just discomfort, but also pain when urinating, especially in boys. An overfilled diaper puts pressure on the penis when it rests against the thick layer.

Cry small child no one thinks it’s something surprising or unusual. On the contrary, a baby who whines or roars loudly and bursts into tears is a common occurrence. The baby's parents strive to help him get rid of the cause of his crying, sometimes without knowing at all what actually caused it.

So, not all mothers understand why the baby suddenly began to cry, for example, before going to bed. The real reasons for shedding tears and crying loudly, as well as ways to calm a baby, are in this article.

Contact between the baby and his mother begins in the womb. This connection is inextricable; it runs like a thin thread through their relationship throughout their lives. How better conditions mother during pregnancy, the calmer the birth and the first months of the baby’s growth will be.

Many parents say that during the day the child is simply a miracle - he plays, sleeps, eats, without problems or whims, but before bed the child constantly cries out of the blue for no reason. As soon as mom takes him in her arms, he hides in her chest or shoulder and can bend. This behavior further confuses young parents.

Different nature of crying

The tearfulness of a child under one year of age is the only way to convey to adults information about the need for something. Healthy baby He won’t whine too much, he’ll calm down as soon as he’s in his mother’s arms. Tell me why infant cries before going to bed, maybe the volume and intonation of the voice.

1. Hunger, cold, heat, a soiled diaper are accompanied by whimpering. Satisfying the baby's needs will return him to the kingdom of sleep.
2. If there is arching, the baby clenches his fists or stomps his feet, it is likely that something hurts. Crying sounds inviting, like a request for help.
3. The baby relieves nervous tension with tears: after whimpering quietly, after a while he will begin to sob loudly for a long time.

It is important to know! As the baby gets older, he understands that with the help of crying he can not only talk about the problem, but also manipulate his parents. In this case, tantrums show the toddler’s “acting skills,” and tears are just work for the public.

Types of causes of excessive tearfulness in the evening

Tired mothers and fathers do not always notice the factors that cause the child to cry. Many parents misinterpret sobbing: believing that the baby burst into tears due to hunger, they immediately stop the birth with a breast or a bottle. This often happens due to inexperience or carelessness. When the baby begins to cry, first of all you need to clarify what caused his tears.

Health problems and physical discomfort

Strong screaming and crying is the baby’s attempt to say that he doesn’t like something. Sobbing speaks either of unnoticed but noticeable unpleasant little things by the baby, or of the development of an illness - an independent analysis of the child’s behavior and well-being will help to understand what is bothering him.

Sometimes the baby starts crying immediately after bathing. This is due to the fact that it leaves its familiar environment and enters cool air. Crying baby will calm down as soon as it warms up.

Instability of emotional background

The baby is small, but a person. He is able to sense the negative atmosphere of the surrounding world. Negative impressions will have a bad effect on the child’s falling asleep and sleep itself: he will not be able to fall asleep due to thoughts and personal internal experiences. There is a high probability of bad dreams and nightmares.

Sometimes the reason for crying before bed is fear. In the dark, the child will not be able to see his parents or feel that they are nearby. The baby is also afraid of separation. For him, his mother is his only support, protector, and assistant.

Advice! The baby may cry because the parents came to his aid. There is an opinion that the baby feels tired and dissatisfied with his mother, and therefore begins to cry even more.

Baby crying before nap

Sometimes a baby cries when falling asleep during the day, although there is no apparent reason. One of the reasons is the lack of fatigue. The baby will not be able to sleep, he still has too much energy. You can spend it by taking a walk in the yard, preferably an active one. The baby will want to sleep on his own as soon as his strength runs out.

Another reason lies in anxiety: the mother leaves, and the child is left alone, defenseless and helpless. If nap is impossible without the main person nearby, it is likely that a stable habit has developed to constantly sleep together.

Advice! When the time comes to put your baby to bed, do it calmly, don’t stress and don’t think about the plans you want to complete while your baby is sleeping. Do not forget that the baby will feel everything, any tension will cause tears and hysterics.

Ways to stop constant crying

To ensure that your child falls asleep without tears and hysteria, it is necessary to determine the source of the problem. Take a close look at your baby’s behavior, diet and routine. Visit a pediatrician, neurologist, tell us about the symptoms and changes you notice.

An infant's sleep at night is sometimes disturbed by nightmares. If the baby dreams of something bad caused by the events that he experienced during the day, he will wake up every time after a bad dream. This is especially true for excitable, impressionable and restless children. Protect your baby from factors that could cause shock. Sometimes a child may be frightened by the arrival of a relative, for example, a grandmother. All his life he had not seen anyone except his parents, and then suddenly a stranger appears and takes him in his arms. The baby will arch his body, trying to dodge and run away, naturally to the accompaniment of hysteria and tears.

It is important to know! It is important not to forget about the fear of separation - because of it, the little one can cry every evening, afraid of being left without his mother. If this problem is not solved now, in the future things that are commonplace for older children, such as going to kindergarten, will be accompanied by severe hysteria.

Pediatricians on the importance of routine moments

Sometimes the baby cries before falling asleep due to extreme fatigue. The reason for this may be the parents who disturb the internal rhythm of the baby: they say, let him fall asleep when he wants. Violation of sleep and wakefulness is expressed in whims and hysterics, the baby rubs his eyes.

But sometimes the opposite happens: a child begins to cry when a clear schedule is imposed, if his parents force him to eat, write, walk, or sleep. Trying to do the best, they forget about individual characteristics. This is a very serious mistake, which in the future can affect the development and behavior of the baby. For the same reason, a child cries after sleep. Doctors call this condition “inertial drowsiness”: awakening has occurred, but it is very difficult to come to your senses.

It is useful to instill in your baby the concept of the need for sleep, but this must be done correctly and carefully. Give your baby the opportunity to burn off his energy reserves so that he gets really tired.

Medicines and herbal medicine

You can stop a baby's intense crying with the help of medications (if prescribed by your pediatrician). They will help when a child cries in pain, or are taken as a sedative. "Espumizan", "Sub-Simplex" and other means have a positive effect on eliminating discomfort. If the child’s whim has no obvious reason, use valerian infusion: one drop will help calm the baby. It is important to know! Medicines should be given only according to the doctor’s recommendations.

If a child cries a lot before going to bed, use herbal decoctions with a sedative effect while bathing. Many experts recommend turning to them in case of mild excitability in children, so that the overly active baby calms down.

How to behave while crying: a guide for parents

First of all, in this case, you should calm down. It was mentioned above that the child will feel the mother’s irritation, which will make her cry even more. The baby also worries if mom doesn’t like something. The advice of Dr. Komarovsky, a famous pediatrician, will help relieve your baby from whining.

Advice! Unfortunately, until a child learns to speak coherently, crying will always communicate his needs. Parents need to endure this period steadfastly, but not indulge. Responding to every child’s “whine”, mothers and fathers will turn from caring loved ones into servants, and tears and whims will take on the appearance of a system.

Do not forget about maintaining a sleep schedule, eating regularly, but in moderation. Create a ritual after which the baby goes to bed. Be sure to prepare a bath for your baby before bed.

Conclusion

Taking care of a little person is a real art. The process of parenting requires parents to balance on a fine line between cold severity and all-encompassing care. The right approach to care for the baby will provide him normal conditions development and growth.

A child's crying before bed often has an age-related nature. Don't be afraid to try to fix the problem. You must be prepared for anything, endure hysterics and try to help the child in any way possible.

The responsibility of parents is to monitor their health and routine, maintain conditions for sleep and wakefulness, and visit a doctor. If only the baby was calm and healthy.

If your baby is naughty, you first need to reconsider his daily routine and nutrition. Children who sleep too much during the day have trouble falling asleep. Perhaps the baby has a tummy ache, is cutting a tooth, is cold or, conversely, is very hot.

If we are talking about an older baby, perhaps he is capricious before bed due to constant quarrels between his parents. The atmosphere in the house should be favorable. Also, crying can serve as a way for a child to unload emotionally if adults:

They demand too much from him (his day consists of constant nagging, following the orders of all the relatives living with the baby);
- on the contrary, they do not demand anything from the baby, and by crying he attracts attention to himself (thus, the lack of this same attention leads to excessive stress on the baby’s nervous system).

Ways to calm your baby before bed

The newborn will calm down only after you find the reason why he cannot sleep and is capricious. Carefully examine the baby to see if there is any diaper rash on his body. In this case, baby powder will help. Feel your tummy. If it is swollen, massage it and give it to your baby. necessary medications. Often in this case, dill water and activated charcoal help a lot.

Ventilate the room, see how many degrees there are in the room, perhaps the child is cold or hot. Calm the baby by speaking kind words to him, but do not get irritated under any circumstances. So, the child will feel your emotional condition and will cry even louder.

Remember how much time your baby slept during the day. There should be at least four hours between daytime sleep and nighttime sleep. If you try to put your baby to bed earlier, you naturally won’t succeed. Why? Because the baby simply does not want to sleep and prevents this in every possible way.

For an older child, the daily routine is also important. The baby should be put to bed at a strictly defined time. For example, if every day the baby goes to bed at nine o'clock in the evening, he will not be able to fall asleep an hour earlier. Or, conversely, the baby will never go to the kingdom of Morpheus in an hour, as he will simply be overexcited. Even if the child throws a tantrum, do not yell at him or intimidate him under any circumstances. The main thing here is a positive attitude on your part, a smile on your face. This is the only way to calm the baby down, and for him, in turn, to fall asleep soundly.

From the very beginning life path the little man fills the world with his cry. More for a long time Crying is a way for him to communicate to adults about his experiences. With age, the ability to cry gradually fades away.

baby crying

The baby will never scream just like that. There is always a good reason for his crying. He still cannot express his feelings in words, talk about his inconveniences and pain. If so, find the reason.

One of the most common causes of infant crying is pain and colic in the tummy. The body is just beginning to adapt to the nutrition it receives through mother's milk or artificial feeding. Each product is tested by the body. Some of them have a negative reaction – indigestion. As a result, the baby cries.

A child may cry when he is not comfortable. He may need to change his diaper or diaper. Dampness quickly leads to irritation of delicate baby skin, which causes discomfort for the baby.

Crying can also be caused by hunger. The child grows quickly and needs more and more energy. Despite the feeding schedule, the baby may become hungry between meals.

If you are following a feeding schedule, give your baby water. Perhaps he is thirsty.

If your baby is crying in his crib, check his bed. Stray diapers and blankets can interfere with him. By crying, he makes it clear that he is uncomfortable. In addition, the child may be bored - by crying he demands attention. The presence of the mother or other close people gives the child a feeling of security and calm.

Children's whims

As a child grows, crying remains one of the means of communicating his desires. This largely depends on the parent's style of raising the child. With a permissive parenting style, the child attracts the attention of the parents with his whims. With their help, he achieves what he needs.

When adults show hyperprotection over a child, he gets used to the fact that all his wishes are fulfilled immediately. In the future, at the slightest delay or refusal to fulfill the requirement, the child begins to be capricious. For him, prompt fulfillment of requests is already the norm. He perceives refusal as a break in habits, to which he reacts with irritation and roaring.

Children's whims can also indicate fatigue. A child may get tired without realizing it, for example, when he gets too busy playing. Capricious behavior and lethargy indicate that it is time for him to rest.

Don't take your irritation out on your child. Take his position - this will help you understand your baby. His affairs and fortunes are as important as yours.

Ailments can also cause children's whims. If they appear, pay attention to the child’s condition and measure body temperature. Whims can indicate the onset of an illness.

With the birth of a long-awaited child, parents pin their hopes that the baby will eat well, develop quickly and sleep soundly. However, most parents almost immediately encounter a problem bad sleep in a baby, and the most unpleasant thing is prolonged crying before bedtime. During such crying, parents do not find a place for themselves, worrying about why the child is crying before going to bed. It is very difficult to calm such a child - often children continue to cry even in their mother’s arms. In such cases, neither singing, nor gentle rocking, nor calm music usually helps. Let's look at the reasons why children cry before bed, and also find out what parents can do in such a situation.

Reasons why children cry before bed

You'll be surprised to learn how many reasons little ones cry before bed. Their whole life in the first few months after childbirth is sheer stress. Up to 1 year of age, some children regularly cry heavily before bed and even after sleep. Let's look at the most basic of these reasons.

1. Nervous overstrain. Young children often cannot cope with the stress on their nervous system that they receive during the day. Therefore, 1-2 hours before bedtime, the child begins to cry a lot and in most cases it is impossible to calm him down. Don't rush into panic. For newborn children, this behavior is the norm. With the help of a cry, they are freed from unused energy and remove nervous tension. The nervous system of young children is still poorly developed and does not work the same as in adults.
2. Increased nervous excitability. When you contact a pediatric neurologist with complaints about your child’s regular strong crying before bedtime, in most cases the doctor diagnoses “increased nervous excitability.” Don’t be alarmed, 70% of children under 3 years old experience this phenomenon. It lies in the fact that children with increased excitability simply will not be able to fall asleep until they “scream out” all their energy. Only after this do they fall asleep calmly and soundly. This evening phenomenon throws parents into confusion and panic, but, oddly enough, there is nothing abnormal or bad about it. For children early age This is absolutely necessary “self-soothing.” This way they fulfill their “crying quota” for the day. For children with increased excitability, active and vigorous games during the day, as well as the slightest violation of the regime, are contraindicated. Their nervous system works in such a way that the more tired they are physically or psychologically, the more difficult it will be for them to fall asleep. The sleep of such children is usually very sensitive and superficial, often interrupted by crying. Most children with increased nervous excitability also wake up crying.
3. Lack of regime. It is this reason that mainly causes problems with falling asleep in young children. Establishing a correct and clear bedtime routine can solve the problem of a child crying before bed. Some parents believe that the child should go to bed when he has had enough of playing and wants to. Pediatricians and neurologists believe that this is not so. Children are very conservative and they associate having a strict routine, which they strictly adhere to day after day, with stability and calm. After a short period of training, your baby will already know that after certain procedures what follows next night sleep and will go to bed without protesting.
4. Colic. In the first few months of life, colic plagues newborns quite often. With colic, babies cry a lot, pressing their legs to their tummy. It is difficult to calm a colicky baby - to do this, place a warm diaper on his tummy or place the baby on your bare stomach. Giving your child fennel tea or Plantex helps effectively. However, there are situations when these methods do not help the child cope with colic. In this case they will help him medicines, neutralizing increased gas formation, for example, Espumisan.
5. Teeth are being cut. Teething often causes anxiety and sleep disturbances in young children. Swollen gums cause painful sensations which bring significant discomfort to the child. Even very calm babies during the teething period often cry for a long time before going to bed, communicating their discomfort. You can help the baby by anointing the gums with anesthetic gel. You can recognize such a period by the baby’s behavior before and during it. If before this baby was calmly falling asleep, but now suddenly began to cry every day before going to bed, most likely his teeth are bothering him. This period, most often, does not last long and you just need to survive it.
6. Fright. This is a common reason for infants crying before and after sleep. Perhaps your baby doesn't like the darkness and the fact that he can't see or feel his mother. Children also often dream scary dreams, after which the babies wake up crying heavily. In this case, it is better to calm the baby by gently stroking him and quietly whispering words of reassurance to him. Co-sleeping with mom is the ideal solution to this problem.

Relying on personal experience, I can say that if a child’s crying is not caused by physiological reasons, but is a consequence of increased excitement of the nervous system, then there is no need to calm him down. The child will still have to scream until he “releases” all the unused energy. This will not harm the baby’s health and this phenomenon will disappear over time. Well, as a parent, I just had to be patient, trying to calmly go through these moments.

What to do if your child cries a lot before bed

The most important thing is that you don’t need to panic or become hysterical. Crying is completely natural and normal for a child. First of all, try to establish the cause of crying, first excluding physiological reasons, for example, hunger, cold, dirty diaper, tight clothes or uncomfortable position. If you have done all this, and the child still continues to cry inconsolably, then check his gums. It's possible he's just teething. In this case, you can anoint his gums with an anesthetic gel or give him Nurofen for children.

If your baby constantly cries before going to bed every day, most likely, he is simply overexcited during the day. You can try to reduce the load on his nervous system during the day, for example, reduce the amount of time he watches TV, eliminate too active games, and changes in the environment and people.

Taking a warm bath every evening with a decoction of soothing herbs will also help relax the baby’s nervous system and tune it to deep sleep. Be sure to follow the same bedtime routine, performing procedures in the same sequence at the same time.

Whatever the reason that caused your child to cry before or after bedtime, be sure to report this phenomenon to your local pediatrician. Most likely, you will be prescribed a consultation with a neurologist or other specialists. If your child suffers from increased nervous excitability or persistent sleep disorders, he will need the help of qualified specialists, since it is often not always possible to cope with these problems on his own. Without good sleep the child will not be able to develop quickly, and his body will not be able to function properly.

And remember that children in the first years of life are connected with their mother by a strong emotional connection, so the child subtly feels the mood and emotions of the mother, taking them on. Many mothers notice that when they are calm, the baby sleeps soundly, and when they start to get nervous, the child also becomes capricious and whiny. Therefore, take care of your nerves, be patient and remain calm, even if your baby cries a lot before going to bed. This period will soon pass and your baby will sleep soundly and peacefully.

On average, about 30 percent of young children suffer from sleep disorders, pediatricians say. What does this mean? First of all, the baby cries a lot just before going to bed, he has difficulty falling asleep, often starts and wakes up. Children can cry the most various reasons and the main task of parents is to accurately establish them in order to know how to act correctly.

Why does a child cry before going to bed, how to calm him down and what should you pay attention to? We’ll talk about this and more in this article.

Key reasons

In fact, restless behavior and crying at night can be caused by many factors. As a rule, this behavior occurs in children under one year of age and is most often associated with physiological reasons.

The first thing you should pay attention to is possible colic. They annoy newborns very often. During attacks, the child unconsciously presses his knees to his stomach to eliminate unpleasant and painful sensations. You can calm him down by placing him on your stomach. A heating pad helps a lot.

If this does not work, please note medications, for example, to "Espumizan" or "Plantex". They quickly eliminate excessive gas formation and help the child fall asleep as quickly as possible. Besides, good remedy Fennel tea is considered to cure colic.

Second common physiological reason- teething. If you notice that your baby cries after and just before bedtime, he may be teething. At the same time, the gums actively swell and become inflamed, causing a lot of unpleasant and downright painful sensations.

How to help relieve pain and relieve your baby from discomfort? We recommend purchasing one of the pain-relieving dental gels from the pharmacy. It quickly relieves pain and helps the child fall asleep faster.

In addition, children may cry before bed for other reasons:

How to help?

To help your child fall asleep, check if he is cold. Perhaps you should change the diaper or change a position that is not entirely comfortable for him, which makes it difficult to fall asleep. Dressing children in looser clothes can often solve the problem.

In short, first make sure that crying is not associated with satisfaction physiological needs crumbs.

The reasons for a child's crying before bed are not always so harmless. When should you see a doctor? We recommend making an appointment with your pediatrician if your child:

• does not calm down for a very long time;
• constantly wakes up at night;
• screams at night;
• shudders when falling asleep;
• if his chin trembles from time to time.

You should act immediately if children twitch in their sleep, sob and wake up, but at the same time eat well, are not overstressed and are not overloaded with information. High probability initial stage rickets is a dangerous childhood disease.

Please note the accompanying clinical symptoms that accompany this illness:

• sudden fearfulness;
• disruption of biological rhythms;
• lethargy and lethargy;
• excessive sweating;
• unpleasant smell of sweat;
• irritability and moodiness;
• itching and redness of the skin;
• constipation, diarrhea and so on.

A little more about the mode

If your child goes to bed every day different time, it is absolutely not surprising that he screams and is nervous, and it is difficult to fall asleep. What does correct mode mean? Beyond sleep great value the child receives information in a dosed manner. In other words, parents need to protect him from any emotional shocks that could harm his nervous system.

In addition, it is extremely important to organize nutritious regular meals at the same time (but this does not apply to infants, they should eat when they are hungry).

Work on creating a good bedtime routine. For example, you can try relaxing baths with the addition of medicinal herbs - sage, lemon balm, chamomile and so on.

Without correct mode All hyperactive children with high excitability cannot do without it. IN in this case Often the mode is the only correct option of all possible. Form the right associations with sleep in children.

You can create a certain sequence of actions that will help your baby calm down. Here is one possible scheme:

• A calm game with concentration training (about 15 minutes).
• Relaxing bath.
• Lullaby song.
• Turning on the night light in the children's room.
• Falling asleep.
• Healthy and deep sleep.

Fine known to the child the algorithm of habitual actions makes him calmer, gives him a feeling of protection and safety. As a result, the body absolutely naturally begins to fall asleep without additional effort on the part of the parents./p>

It is better to refuse the arrival of guests in the evening, if possible avoid active games and sudden emotional outbursts. In addition, it is not advisable for children to watch TV or play computer games before going to bed.

Let's sum it up

For young children, crying is a normal reflex reaction to a stimulus. If babies do not yet know how to talk, then they communicate their needs by crying, screaming and whims. This should be a signal for parents.

Do not forget that in some cases an appointment with a pediatrician is required, especially if crying before bed is a regular phenomenon and difficult to eliminate. Most likely, the pediatrician will refer you to a neurologist and other specialists.

Difficulty falling asleep, poor quality of night sleep - with these and similar problems It is very difficult to cope effectively on your own.

Don't forget that for young children, sleep is just as important as good nutrition. So make sure your little ones always try to go to bed at the same time every day and sleep soundly. This is a guarantee wellness and proper development.