The infant may cry after eating due to acute pain caused by intestinal colic. Also a fairly common cause is thrush in the mouth, a fungus that causes itching and burning. In addition, crying associated with overeating or malnutrition of the child should not be ruled out.
Intestinal colic
Crying is the newborn's main weapon, with which he can inform parents about pain, hunger and discomfort. Starting from 3 months of age, babies, especially boys, become more capricious, which is associated with intestinal colic. Most often, they appear during or after meals. A child suffering from painful sensations in the stomach, as a rule, wrinkles his forehead, knocks his legs, close his eyes and screams loudly. To save their child from such suffering, parents must, after each feeding, keep the baby in an upright position until it regurgitates excess air. Most often, it enters the stomach due to improper attachment to the breast, when the baby captures only the nipple, without the areola. If a newborn is bottle-fed, care should be taken in advance to ensure that the shape of the nipple fits perfectly.
The child is overeat or undernourished
The baby may cry after eating due to the fact that the feeling of hunger is not completely satisfied. As a rule, this applies to newborns who are fed with mother's milk. In this case, it is necessary to offer him another breast or to feed him with an adapted infant formula. If the lactation process is fine and the milk is in the right volume, you should make sure that it has sufficient fat content. To do this, you need to decant a few drops and look at their color - they should not have a bluish tint.
Parents who are convinced that the child eats exactly as much as he needs is fundamentally wrong. This is especially true for bottle-fed babies. Excess food will simply not be digested and "ferment" in the stomach, which will cause painful sensations, accompanied by crying. The infant must have a strict feeding regimen - he must eat a certain amount of milk or formula at the same time.
Inflammation of the mouth or middle ear
If during feeding the child behaves restlessly - twirls, puts his hands in his mouth and cries, this may be a signal of stomatitis or thrush. These ailments are accompanied by a white coating, redness and swelling on the tongue, gums and lips. The affected areas are itchy and baked, so the newborn is naughty, and sometimes even refuses to eat. At the initial stage, the disease is treated by wiping the oral cavity with a gauze swab dipped in a furacilin solution or chamomile decoction.
A baby who systematically cries and rubs his ear during feeding should get an appointment with a doctor as soon as possible. This may be due to inflammation of the middle ear, which causes an acute discomfort that increases during sucking.
