Wednesday 25 May 2011

When Child Cries

Age between 0 and two years in kids life is critical as the child has to be looked after by parents cautiously. Parents have to understand the needs of the child and attend them promptly. Recognising exact need is more important in this age.

As 0 to 2 years old child did not express its problems in words, parents have to understand it on themselves. Usually child expresses its problem by crying. Cry of the child is an indication of its problem. It want immediate attention of parents or whom ever attending it.

Several problems may come up in that age and only expression about it, a child can give is a cry. Usually parents think that child is crying for food and give it milk or other food. But always hunger is not the problem of the child. It may fear about something, have pain in stomach or elsewhere in the body, irritation on the body, trouble with cloths, suffocation, much cold, much hot or any other problem.

Parents should understand that problem. If the child is not fed for a long time it would be better to give milk or other food. If the child is satisfied with that it stops crying. If the child continues to cry even after that it would be better to check for other problems.

If the child is having indigestion problem or bloating stomach problem it should be attended on the advice of a doctor. At the same time it would better to check if the child is having problems with the cloths and other wrappings. Better to remove the cloth and check whether they have left any mark on the skin.

Whenever it cries  parents should take it in to their arms and give a feeling of security and attention. If the baby is shivering it would be better to put extra cloths and if feeling suffocation, should place the child where there is plenty of air.

It would be better to check the bed of the child for any creachers, ants, flies and other material that is pricking the body. Child feels insecure in the cradle when loses balance, better to check whether the cradle is flat or not. If the cradle have any tilt, it should be corrected so that child did not feel that it would fell down.

Continuous cry of child is symptom of bigger problem. Even after attending all such problems, that we can detect, the child goes on crying, it would better to take it to the doctor. Checking of ear, nose, stomach, eyes, private parts, hand and legs should be done. Child should be shown to various paediatric specialists to find out the exact problems.

Parents should not take continuous cry of the children as problem to them and should not try to make the child calm by putting on the bed and showing some dolls to it. It would be better to make all the checks and give treatment till it stops crying. One must bear in the mind that crying is not a happy thing to child.

Since child between 0 to 2 years did not have intentions like vexing the parents or other demands and cry of child should be taken as demand from it for attention.

Usually in this age child did not demand for dolls or new cloths or something, because they did not know what are they. All that it needs is attention when it encounters a problem.

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