The adult's perception of infant crying determines whether it is a source of stress and may be an antecedent to physical child abuse. The study had clients listen to infant crying and used stress management training to change their perceived arousal, anxiety, and evaluation of the crying. Fifteen nonparental female clients were randomly assigned to three groups who either had pretraining withou...

BACKGROUND Colic is a behavioral syndrome of early infancy of unknown etiology whose core symptom is increased crying. Both clinical anecdotal descriptions and controlled observations converge in suggesting that a defining characteristic of the crying behavior is the longer duration of the crying bouts, especially during the second month of life when colic is at its peak. This implies that, onc...

s What is “Unexplained Early Crying”? Infant Crying and Its Impact on Parents Ian St. James-Roberts, PhD There is little consensus on how to measure infant crying, while different approaches identify hugely different amounts and features. This chapter offers a conceptual and methodologic guide which distinguishes between the crying, its perception by parents, and its impact as a problem for som...

There are different approaches to reduce excessive crying of babies. Studies prove positive effects of single measures, e. g. certain diets, acupuncture or psychological approaches improve the crying behaviour. No evaluation data support the effectiveness of the examined crying ambulances.

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that swaddling is an effective method to reduce crying, we compared a standardized approach of regularity and stimulus reduction with the same approach supplemented with swaddling. STUDY DESIGN Healthcare nurses coached 398 excessively crying infants up to 12 weeks of age for 3 months. Outcome measurements were crying as measured by Barr's 24-hour diary and pa...

This study has three objectives: a) to describe the main differences in the crying patterns produced by the three affective states most closely related to crying: fear, anger and pain; b) to study the adults' accuracy in the recognition of the affective states related to the infant's crying, and c) to analyze the emotional reaction that infant crying elicits in the observers. Results reveal tha...

BACKGROUND Excessive infant crying, though usually benign, can be very troublesome to parents with unwanted consequences on the child. Previous reports had shown cultural and racial differences in it's perception by mothers. We undertook this study to determine the prevalence of excessive crying in our area of practice and also determine associated factors. METHOD This was a cross sectional, ...

Crying is an essential behaviour in infants, occurring on a continuum, and only rarely indicates serious underlying diagnosis. Searching online for information about excessive crying has become common, using the internet to seek health support through forums. The aim of this study was examine data systematically derived from discussion threads two parent forums explore discussions around infant...

AIM To examine the acoustic features of crying demonstrated by infants whose older sibling died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and compare these features to a nonrisk group of infants. METHODS Pain-induced crying episodes were collected from a group of healthy term (HT) infants and siblings of SIDS infants. One complete crying episode was obtained from each infant and analyzed acousti...