The child needs you to guess how to help him. How to do it? Here are some tips from the new book Madeleine Denis "Do not cry, baby!", Which was published in the publishing house "Clover".Photo: Getty images

1. Study the reasons that make a child cry

Loud calls of the baby with the passage of time will bechange. To the inevitable crying of the first months, meaning "my tummy is hurting" or "I want to eat", soon will be added a malaise from teething, tears from sudden fatigue and whimpering after the first days in the manger ... There will be a lot of new emotions and sensations that should be treated Really. It is very important to learn to listen and understand the tears of your child, help him overcome these difficulties. Why does the baby cry? American pediatrician TB Braselton has identified six main reasons:

• hunger,
• boredom,
• discomfort,
• gastric colic,
• the need to discharge at the end of the day,
• pain.

At the same time, the greatest exacerbation of crying occurs usually at the 3rd-8th week of the child's life, and the baby cries an average of two hours a day.Photo: Getty images

2. Learn to distinguish between your child's tears

So, according to Brazelton theory, there are 6 basiccauses, causing tears. Depending on the cause, the child can cry differently. A hunger, for example, causes mournful cries that turn into crying. The volume of them gradually increases and is characterized by rhythm. The payment of boredom is not so loud. Usually he interrupts from time to time: the child listens to whether his call for response has not found. While the pain and fear immediately cause a loud crying. The strength of the exhalation during such crying is so great that the baby almost suffocates. Listen to your baby, watch. How does he cry when hungry? How, when he wants to sleep or is he uncomfortable?

3. Help the child survive colic

The child frowns, blushes, draws his knees tobelly and screaming? Most likely, he has colic. This is a common ailment, from which children cry for a long time in the first months and the exact cause of which is not easy to establish. The cause may be the diet of the baby or the mother, or maybe the immaturity of the baby's digestive system. To help the baby, massage his tummy or squeeze it on his hands, pressing his tummy tightly to his. Several facts about colic:

• believe that the child suffers colic if he cries more than three hours a day, more than three days a week, more than three weeks in a row;
• as a rule, this gastric malaise occurs in three weeks of children and gradually weakens, and then disappears by four months;
• the greatest daily aggravation is observed between 15 and 21 hours.

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