Why is my baby's lips shaking?

The younger the baby, the more attention we should pay to his health. If the baby is young and does not have good self-care ability, parents should worry and pay more attention to him. But some parents have found that their baby's lips have been shaking recently, as if they were frightened, and they can't help but become worried. But what exactly is going on? Let me explain to you why your baby’s lips tremble.

Don't worry too much. This situation will happen to many babies. It may be caused by calcium deficiency or an underdeveloped nervous system. It usually won't happen when they are one or two years old. It is recommended to go to the hospital to consult a doctor and do a trace element test.

One possibility is that the baby is cold. The weather has been relatively cold recently, and the temperature is relatively low. Mothers should pay attention to keeping the baby warm.

Secondly, it is possible that because the baby has just been born and his nervous system is not fully developed, he will become excited and have muscle tremors after being exposed to various stimuli. As the baby grows bigger, this phenomenon will gradually disappear.

The third possibility is that the baby’s lips tremble due to calcium deficiency.

If the lip tremors only occur when crying, you still need to observe them. For example, if your brother's crying is sharp, his reaction is slow, and he often has limb tremors, if he has these symptoms, you should go to the Children's Hospital for treatment, and check your brother's birth history to see if he has a history of intrauterine asphyxia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, brain damage, etc., to rule out the possibility of brain disease (cerebral palsy).

The most common cause of this symptom in babies is calcium deficiency. If there is a history of hypoxia or premature birth, a brain CT scan should be performed for consultation. If it is caused by calcium deficiency, the baby can be treated by supplementing with cod liver oil and calcium gluconate oral solution.

1. The lips become the "umbilical cord" that connects the baby to the outside world again

When a baby is born, it is driven out of the womb, a safe, protective world to which it has become accustomed during its long growth process, and faces a completely unfamiliar and strange environment. Some developmental psychologists call this "birth death." After the baby experiences the fear of separation at the moment of birth, he must once again establish the "umbilical cord" connecting him to the outside world through a new relationship with his mother.

The baby feels his mouth groping for the source of a new life. The lips feel the instinctive drive to touch the breast, which activates the sucking reflex that was established before birth. If the mouth does not feel the warmth of the libido reaching the lips, he will feel anxious, but if he can feel the warm and smooth life-giving substance radiating from the breast, he will feel comforted, happy, and relieved from anxiety. Because the baby's libido during this period is mainly concentrated in the mouth, especially the lips, it is called the oral stage.

2. The basis of oral stage infant personality formation

The baby is aware of the mother's feelings and of her response to him through the nipple. In the interaction between mother and child, the child receives the mother's love and also feels that he has aroused the mother's happiness. The relationship between an infant and the mother's breast is fundamental to the formation of a person's character. Before birth, the baby is part of the mother, who provides him with everything he needs and desires. Now his mother's breast is the source of all his nutrition. If all goes well, the baby's lost sense of unity and security with the mother before birth will be restored. This depends to a large extent on the baby's ability to effectively focus libido on the breast or its symbolic representation, the bottle; a good breast is accepted by the baby and becomes part of his "self".

Babies have the ability to understand and experience contradictions, to be aware of good or bad breasts, good or bad affection, good or bad libido, and to understand the emotions of anxiety and anger. The baby not only experiences intense sensations in contact with the breast, but also senses how the mother treats him or her needs. A mother who loves her children experiences that her children are the source of happiness and feels happiness in her children’s happiness. At the same time, the child will also experience that she is a good mother and he is a good child. Mothers who suffer from pleasure anxiety, sexual conflict and libido repression feel anxious about their own and their children's pleasure; the child will become the source of her anxiety, and her anxiety will be passed on to the child, making the child think that she is a bad mother and that she is a bad child.

3. Oral stage babies use their lips to "explore" the world

During the oral stage, babies use their lips to explore the world around them. Many parents find that their children put everything they can get into their mouths, biting, nibbling and chewing it over a period of time. When the teeth come in, they absorb the aggressive libido that has already developed. Dental attacks are characterized by biting, piercing, cutting, and penetration. The baby wants to penetrate the cold surface of the breast and release the libido hidden beneath the cold surface. Some psychologists call this form benign aggression. Through another psychological mechanism, which Freud called sublimation, this urge to bite is sublimated into an attitude of striving to see beyond the surface of things and explore their essence, which is very important in intellectual activities.

The above are the reasons why your baby’s lips tremble that I found for you. Maybe it is because the baby is too young and has not yet fully developed, or maybe it is because the baby is calcium deficient. At this time, mothers should give the baby more milk to supplement nutrition. No matter what the reason is, parents should always pay attention to the baby's health. I believe that after a period of conditioning, the baby's lip tremors will no longer occur.