Colic Baby Relief Symptoms

In the long run, then, it's not the crying that matters, it's how you react to the crying. The fact is, some babies will cry more than others. The circumstances of the birth might have a bearing on it. If the mother had a general anaesthetic, if baby was eased out with the mighty forceps, if baby had to endure a long labour . all these are believed to make babies cry more later on. Also, newborn boys often cry more than newborn girls. No one knows why: it just is.
 

Colic Baby Relief Symptoms

Which means, slightly terrifyingly, that there may not be a problem you can solve at all. You may simply have a baby that cries. These are not rational beings we are dealing with. They are not predictable. Baby cries. Pick up baby. Baby stops crying. Put baby down again. Baby starts crying again. Then, next time: baby cries. Pick up baby. Baby goes on crying. Put down baby. Baby stops crying. Partner picks up baby. Baby cries. Partner hands baby to you, Baby stops crying. Partner goes into sulk. And so on and so on. Every possible permutation of events is happening right now to some poor bastard of a parent within ten miles of where you are sitting.
 
Men, of course, tend to see life as a series of problems to be solved. And if a problem can't be solved? Even psychologists have noticed that fathers often deal less than brilliantly with a baby's emotional turmoil. 'A young father said, "I feed him, change him, play rough and tumble, I can't take any more." The mother was more in touch with the baby and could hold him and accept his distress. 

Father had to act to make it better and couldn't tolerate the distress,' What makes it worse is that, somehow, you feel that you are the only person who has ever had to endure this. You are not. Babies have cried for tens of thousands of years, and if anyone knew of a sure-fire cure, we might have heard about it by now. Indeed, around the world and throughout history, grown-ups have tried to put a different spin on crying babies, presumably to relieve their own suffering.

In Japan every spring they hold crying baby competitions, for they believe that the more a baby cries, the stronger and healthier it will be as an adult. In Christian tradition, if a baby cried at its baptism, that was a sign to everyone that the Devil was being driven away. And not at all a sign that the baby did not like being dunked head first in a fontful of greasy cold water.
 
One possible explanation for non-stop crying is colic. Or, as some of the books call it,'colic' (just as morning sickness is now 'morning' sickness). Many babies between the ages of three weeks and four months cry for no apparent reason. It usually strikes towards the end of the parenting day; when you are at your tiredest and most bad-tempered, but can crop up at other times of the day as well. It can last anything up to three or even four hours. It's called colic, a wonderfully old-fashioned name I always think, because colicky babies tend to pull their legs up and arch their backs as though they have severe stomach ache.

Many experts call it 'colic' with the inverted commas because no one knows what causes it, although they don't think it's stomachache. (A few experts won't even call it 'colic'. They call it 'what people understand by the term "colic"'. Any expert this detached from the parenting process can be safely ignored.)  To find out more, you can check out Colic Baby Relief Symptoms.