Objective confirmation of crying durations in infants referred for excessive crying.

Objective confirmation of crying durations in infants referred for excessive crying.

Parents commonly seek clinicians' help for infant crying that they judge to be excessive. To date there is no independent evidence whether such babies actually cry more than average. To assess this, maternal diary and 24 hour audiotape recordings of the crying periods of 16 infants referred for excessive crying were compared with equivalent measures of a normative sample. The overall amounts of...

Excessive crying in infants.

OBJECTIVE Review the literature on excessive crying in young infants, also known as infantile colic, and its effects on family dynamics, its pathophysiology, and new treatment interventions. DATA SOURCE The literature review was carried out in the Medline, PsycINFO, LILACS, SciELO, and Cochrane Library databases, using the terms "excessive crying," and "infantile colic," as well technical boo...

Excessive crying and regulation - 1 Running Head: EXCESSIVE CRYING AND REGULATION The Effect of Excessive Crying on The Development of Emotion Regulation

Excessive infant crying: definitions determine risk groups.

We assessed risk groups for excessive infant crying using 10 published definitions, in 3179 children aged 1-6 months (response: 96.5%). Risk groups regarding parental employment, living area, lifestyle, and obstetric history varied by definition. This may explain the existence of conflicting evidence on the occurrence and cause of excessive crying.

Effects of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction in Excessive Crying Syndromes of Infancy

Background: Excessive crying (or infant colic) is a common pain syndrome of infancy without any specific known aetiology or effective management and it is costly in both social and economic terms. Many cases result in long-term poor sleep, behavioural problems and parental stress. The biomechanical aspects of this condition lack adequate investigation despite its strong link with assisted and/o...