Why does a baby cry while bathing or after it?

Parents believe that bathing should definitely give the baby a real pleasure. And in most cases this is exactly what happens, but it happens and vice versa - the child shouts and sobs, resists and does not experience any joy from the bath prepared with love. Not all moms and dads know why a baby cries while bathing or after it.

The reasons that make a child behave in this way and express protest with all his might are much more than parents used to think. The good news is that most of the reasons are easily eliminated, and moms and dads have every chance to turn the evening water treatments into an exciting and useful activity for the kid.

A child immersed in water often cries because of physical discomfort. The water is too cold or too hot. The skin of babies is much thinner than in adults, it protects the body worse from overheating and overcooling, and therefore some of the temperature nuances that the adult doesn’t pay much attention to are very tangible and unpleasant for the baby. Long years of observation of a variety of babies allowed doctors to recommend to parents certain temperature values ​​for comfortable bathing - water temperature should not exceed 37-38 degrees. If parents are adherents of the method of cool bathing, which is promoted by the popular among mothers, doctor Yevgeny Komarovsky, then this is also no reason to sharply launch the baby into cold water. The temperature is reduced from 37 degrees gradually, by 1 degree per day. This will allow the child to gradually get used to bathing in water, the temperature of which is only 22-24 degrees.

Many parents try to transfer the child in 1-2 months to swim in a large bath. Not all kids are able to adequately perceive too much water. For a long time in the mother's womb they were in rather cramped conditions, it is very difficult for them to immediately accept a large space. That is why Soviet pediatrics recommended at least six months to bathe the baby in a small baby bath. But fashionable and modern pediatricians are not so categorical, and some even argue that a large space is more useful for the child. If the crumb scrubs and screams immediately after it is dipped in water, this is a reason to try the old method is to wrap the baby in a diaper before diving. This will create a realistic illusion for the baby habitual close space. If this does not help, it may be worth temporarily returning to bathing in a small bath.

For a child, persistent rejection of water procedures for a long time can stress, which he experienced once during bathing. Soap could get into the eyes, water poured into the ears and nose - and so on. In spite of the fact that the child is still small, he is able to memorize such events at the reflex level and react to the danger accordingly. Dealing with children's fear is quite difficult.

The child does not just receive a useful exercise, making swimming movements, but also mastered the water, learns to feel safe in it. Many such products are equipped with bells and rolling bells, which during movements will additionally create a “distracting” sound background.

Often the baby cries a lot in the bathroom because of the banal feeling of hunger. The universal medical recommendation states that before evening bathing with the penultimate feeding, you should give the child a smaller amount of food, then to feed him plenty and send to sleep for a few hours. There is a reason and common sense. Indeed - a child with a full stomach just wants to sleep, and right in the bathroom. There is an exit. You can not deviate from the recommendations of the doctor, but not to starve the baby. To do this, just drink it with water for 15 minutes before bathing, you can feed for an hour and a half before the start of water procedures. In extreme cases - to reduce the time spent in the bathroom, if the kid categorically rejects the proposed water instead of food. Tips to feed the baby in the bathroom with a mixture or breastfeeding can not be considered adequate.

Evening bathing is usually preceded by a number of procedures: this is a massage, and air baths. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the incorrectly calculated time allotted by the parents for massage and ventilation takes all the strength from the child. They simply do not remain to calmly experience water procedures. Therefore, the roar in the bathroom becomes a fierce demand for peace. Or rather - food and rest. It is important to remember that evening massage before bathing should not exceed 10-15 minutes for a child, for a newborn and a baby up to 6 months - no more than 5-7 minutes. If the child is still tired, you should reduce the time of massage is not to the detriment of bathing time.

A newborn may cry in the bathroom due to pain. In many babies, it is in the evening that intestinal colic and gas formation intensify. The tummy putiet, as a result of which the crumb goes into hysterics. If there are all colic symptoms (bloating, tense abdomen, flatulence, pressing the legs to the tummy and tightly clenched fists), then you should first help the child cope with the symptoms, and only then - bathe him. Although many mothers claim that in warm water, colic and without dill water pass much faster. The cause of crying in children older than 5 months can be protruding teeth. Unpleasant sensations in the child also intensify in the evening and often during bathing in warm water. To exclude pathologies of the nervous system, which also make the child unconsciously shout and protest against massage and bathing, you should definitely show the child to a pediatrician who will help you to find out if the baby has no pathological good reason to cry in the water.

After the bath, the children cry much more often than in the bathroom. The reasons are the same. In a room where babies are brought from a warm bath, it may be too cold, the towel can be very hard and unpleasant, the dressing process can be complicated by colic or cutting teeth.

The strength of the child at the end, he was hungry. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct evening procedures after the bath quickly so that the child does not have to “convince” mom and dad to feed him and have to lay him down for too long.

After bathing, some children begin to shout to demonstrate their protest against too early discontinued water procedures, if the bathing process gives them pleasure.

Parents need to remember the following:

• Learn to appreciate the nature of crying. He can tell a lot and help parents find the true cause. A piercing and harsh cry can talk about pain, plaintive and monotonous - about fatigue, demanding, episodic, in which the little one “screams” - about hunger, invocatory - an alarm signal, the child is scared.
• Make sure the water is warm enough The temperature of the air in the bathroom and the bedroom is normal.
• Take rattles and rubber toys in the bathroom.

• Choose a soft and pleasant to the touch towel for your child, so that the skin of the baby does not suffer from a rough impact.
• Do all the manipulations with warm hands, the touch of cold fingers, children usually do not like.
• Avoid loud noises, screams, sudden movements during and after bathing. Calm and confident movements of her mother's hands have an amazing soothing effect on the baby.
• Bathe the baby every day at the same time. This should be preceded by the same actions, in a certain strict order (massage, air baths). Then the child will be able to quickly get used to the schedule offered to him. The addiction will cause a more relaxed attitude to water, and to massage, and to the evening feeding.

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