Nervous Symptoms in Newborns
Children who often shudder. Newborns shudder because of sudden sounds or unexpected changes in the posture. Some are more sensitive than others. If you put the child on a flat hard surface, he knits with little hands and scissors and, probably, can move slightly. This sudden movement is enough to make the sensitive child tremble, get scared and cry. A child may not like bathing because he is not held tightly enough. In this case, the mother can wash it, sitting on her knees, and then rinse in the tub, holding tightly with both hands. Such a child should always be held tightly and moved slowly. With age, he will gradually get rid of his fear of
. Some children in the first months sometimes tremble. A chin or hands and feet may tremble, especially when the child is nervous or when it has just been stripped and cold. Because of such tremors, you do not need to worry. This is another consequence of the fact that the child has not yet matured the nervous system. Over time, this addiction disappears.
Twitching. Some children sometimes twitch in a dream. Very rarely, such twitching is frequent. Usually they also disappear with age. Tell the doctor about it when he examines the child.
Children who fight with their heads, shake their heads or swing the whole body. The mother worries if the child develops a habit of beating his head against the walls of the crib. It seems so pointless and painful that she begins to doubt the mind of her child at all. Also it is afraid, that blows can damage a head. Even if she does not have such fears, she is nervous, sitting in the next room and listening to the constant: boo!booh!bush!. .
One child beats his head on the crib, the other shakes his head from side to side. And the third one gets up on all fours and swings rhythmically. From this, the crib starts rolling around the room or banging against the wall.
What is the meaning of these rhythmic movements? First of all, such movements appear in the second half of the first year, when children have a sense of rhythm and they try, sometimes swinging in time with the music. But at best this is only part of the explanation. Jumping and blows head often occur before bed or when the child is only partially awake. We know that many children can not fall asleep immediately and calmly, but at first they experience a period of slight anxiety. Some two- and three-month-old children always cry for a few minutes before going to bed. Perhaps older children that suck fingers before going to bed, and those that bang their heads or bounce, just relieve unnecessary tension.
The first child will more often bang his head or bounce than his younger brothers and sisters, and that a serious and nervous child does it more often than gay and frivolous. Some doctors believe that such rhythmic movements are made by children who lack affection. Maybe these two assumptions are related to each other. Naturally, parents are more serious about their first child. They forget about the need to relax, be natural and show physical attachment to their child. As a result, he receives less affection and grows uncommunicative.
Perhaps this idea will help some parents who have children shaking their head or beating it, but I do not want to say that this theory is proven or that it is.refers to all children behaving in this way. I just say that such children have normal intelligence and that such behavior is not dangerous to the brain.
If the child bumps his head, place the walls of the crib with something soft so that he does not hurt himself. One father solved the problem by cutting the back of the crib and replacing it with a tarpaulin. If the whole house is shaking from jumping, place the crib on the carpet, and fix the carpet to the floor or put some homemade gaskets, best of all rubber, under the legs of the crib. Or move the crib to the wall, and enclose the wall with something dense.
In any case, do not scold the child or restrain him physically. Any of these measures will only give him more stress.