Why does a two-year-old child cry when sleeping at night?

Children are in the stage of physical and mental development. Their health cannot be separated from the meticulous care of their parents. Some two-year-old children cry when they sleep at night. This is also a common situation. There are many reasons why children cry at night, which makes parents very anxious. Many parents of two-year-old children don’t know why their children cry when they sleep at night. Why do two-year-old children cry when they sleep at night? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Calcium deficiency

In addition to crying at night, children who are calcium deficient may also have corresponding symptoms, such as excessive sweating, baldness on the back of the head, square head, late closure of the fontanelle, beaded ribs, etc. Supplement vitamin D and calcium for the child, and let the child get more sun, and the child will be fine.

2. Fright

When children are frightened, they often wake up from their sleep and cry at night. When children cry, they are often accompanied by fear. In life, it is not difficult to find out what caused the child to be frightened. The solution is to comfort the child, tell the child that there is nothing to be afraid of, and temporarily prevent the child from directly contacting the object or person that makes him afraid. Slowly, the child will fall asleep peacefully.

3. Illness

During many diseases, such as colds and various acute infectious diseases, children will cry after sleeping. Some chronic diseases, such as anemia, tuberculosis, etc., will also make children cry in their sleep because of discomfort. In addition, children with nasal congestion and pinworm disease often cry at night. As long as the primary disease is cured, the child will fall asleep peacefully.

4. Clothing and bedding factors

If the child is covered too thickly, he will be irritated by the heat and cry; if the child is covered too lightly, the cold stimulation will also make the child cry. If the mattress is not laid flat, the clothes are too tight or the belt of the clothes hurts the child, the child will cry. In addition, you should also check if there is anything on the bed that hurts or pricks the child. As long as you find the reason, the child will feel comfortable and the crying will stop.

5. Hunger

Crying at a relatively regular time is related to the child's hunger. For breastfeeding mothers, there is no need to stick to the interval between feedings. When the child is hungry, let the child eat. If the child falls asleep while feeding, you can tap the child's feet to let the child eat and then sleep. For bottle-fed children, you should consider increasing the amount of milk appropriately and check the quality of the milk to see if too much water is added.

6. Urinary retention

Older children are trained to control their urination, but they still cannot get up to urinate at night. Sometimes they will say they need to urinate, but most of the time they cry to indicate that they need to urinate. Parents only need to understand this pattern and help their children urinate, and the children will continue to sleep. If parents do not understand the meaning of their children's crying, the children may wet the bed.

7. Day and night reversal

Some children sleep a lot during the day and are very energetic at night. When parents ignore them because of tiredness, the children will cry to protest. The correct way is to reduce the child's sleep time during the day and play with the child more. The child's sleep will improve at night. After a period of time, the child's life will become regular, and he will be excited during the day and sleep well at night.

8. Need to be caressed

Some children cry to act like spoiled brats. They want to use crying to attract their parents' attention, so that their parents can hug them or give them affection. The parents of these children are often too busy at work and have little time to take care of their children, or they emphasize the "independence" training of their children one-sidedly, which makes their children "skin hungry". As long as the parents give their children more affection and caress, the children's needs will be met and they will stop crying.