A baby that is having intestinal cramps, or painful gas passing through the bowels, or having difficulty processing and digesting food or having digestive problems is bound to suffer from what is referred to as colic.
About 1 baby in 5 will get them, violently rebel against this pain and express his inability to cope with this situation by very loud and persistent crying.
The child sometimes will not accept cuddles or soothing until its discomfort goes away and in most cases, this rebellion is a way of asking his parents to help him/her learn how to cope with the adversity of pain.
Medicine has not been able to solve the problem with a pill or a syrup and it is not yet known why this problem exists, nor what causes it.
But there is a large amount of tricks and tips derived from past experience that can come to the rescue to help try and cope with the situation, the knack is in finding the right balance of "action" ingredients.
This can be difficult to find at first.
What is important to know, above all, is that learning to cope with pain and adversity early in life will be transmitted from parent to child and is absolutely vital to the childs' well being for the future.
Depriving a baby of love will not help, neither will allowing him to throw his tantrum all the time.
The two extremes have to be reconciled by finding the middle road.
This helps the child understand that one has to learn to deal with the problem, that one is abundantly loved and that rebelling against the situation is not productive, on the contrary, it will only aggravate the situation.
All this cannot be explained to a newborn, it has to be transmitted through patient tender loving caring action from the parents.
What parents need to know is that it is not their fault, that they are not inadequate and that there is no need to feel guilty about the situation.
That will allow them to take a step back to review the situation, gather their strength to organize a colic battle plan and get to work finding the solution that will solve the screaming baby situation.
About 1 baby in 5 will get them, violently rebel against this pain and express his inability to cope with this situation by very loud and persistent crying.
The child sometimes will not accept cuddles or soothing until its discomfort goes away and in most cases, this rebellion is a way of asking his parents to help him/her learn how to cope with the adversity of pain.
Medicine has not been able to solve the problem with a pill or a syrup and it is not yet known why this problem exists, nor what causes it.
But there is a large amount of tricks and tips derived from past experience that can come to the rescue to help try and cope with the situation, the knack is in finding the right balance of "action" ingredients.
This can be difficult to find at first.
What is important to know, above all, is that learning to cope with pain and adversity early in life will be transmitted from parent to child and is absolutely vital to the childs' well being for the future.
Depriving a baby of love will not help, neither will allowing him to throw his tantrum all the time.
The two extremes have to be reconciled by finding the middle road.
This helps the child understand that one has to learn to deal with the problem, that one is abundantly loved and that rebelling against the situation is not productive, on the contrary, it will only aggravate the situation.
All this cannot be explained to a newborn, it has to be transmitted through patient tender loving caring action from the parents.
What parents need to know is that it is not their fault, that they are not inadequate and that there is no need to feel guilty about the situation.
That will allow them to take a step back to review the situation, gather their strength to organize a colic battle plan and get to work finding the solution that will solve the screaming baby situation.
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