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Infant Hair Pulling
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Infant Hair Pulling
by alyten, Jun 01, 2008 07:48PM
My 7 week old has seemd very distressed today and is only calmed by me holding her. When she is put down she wails and pulls at her very hard. The harder she pulls the more she cries and I can't get her tight grip undone. What does this mean?
Member Comments (1)
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., Jun 02, 2008 06:50AM
, Jun 02, 2008 06:50AM
As you probably know, infants vary greatly in their need for physical contact. This might well be all that is occurring - i.e., that your daughter feels comforted, secure when you are holding her. Now it could be that she is experiencing some physical distess when she is lying down. While that is not likely, it is best to chack with her pediatrician to rule out that anything of a strictly physical sort is occurring. Do you regard her as a colicky infant thus far? Infant colic has not been precisely explained. Some regard it as a symptom of trapped gas in the digestive tract, causing abdominal pain. While this explanation has not been disproven, nor has it been shown definitively to explain infant colic.
