Baby thrashing head while feeding
Why Do They Do This?
Baby Shakes Head: Why Do They Do This?Medically reviewed by Karen Gill, M.D. — By Kristeen Cherney on March 10, 2016
Overview
Over the course of their first year of life, your baby will reach various milestones related to reflexes and motor skills.
When a baby starts shaking their head, you may be concerned that something is wrong. You might even wonder if your baby is too young to be shaking their head.
Some cases of head shaking are related to neurological or developmental disorders. However, the majority of cases are normal.
Learn why your baby shakes their head and the types of scenarios you should be worried about.
Understanding baby’s motor skills
As a parent, it’s normal to experience protective instincts. After all, your newborn is delicate and unable to defend themselves.
Still, this doesn’t mean that your baby can’t move on their own. According to the March of Dimes, by the end of the first month of life, babies have the ability to move their heads from side to side. This most often occurs when they lie on their sides.
After the first month, head shaking in babies is most often accompanied by playfulness as well as other forms of interaction. Babies who develop “normally” will be able to shake their heads “yes” or “no” by their first year.
During the first few weeks of life, your baby’s movements might be more “jerky” as they develop muscle control.
Shaking head when nursing
One of the first times babies shake their heads is when they nurse from their mothers. This may first occur out of your baby’s attempt to try to latch. As your baby gets the hang of latching on, the shaking may then be a result of excitement.
While your baby might be gaining neck muscles and is able to shake side to side when nursing, you should still support their head for at least the first three months.
You may also find feeding times to be more successful by calming down your newborn’s reflexes so they can latch on more easily.
Shaking head when playing
Beyond the first month, babies might start shaking their heads while playing.
In some cases, they might even move their heads around when resting on their tummies or their backs. You may notice that head shaking increases when your baby gets excited.
As your baby grows, they will start to notice behaviors of others and try to interact with them. If you have other children at home, your baby might start to imitate their behaviors through head and hand gestures.
Testing movement
Babies are extremely brave, and they will start to test how much they can move. At around the 4- or 5-month mark, some babies will start rocking their heads. This may move onto rocking the whole body.
While the rocking movements can look scary, it’s considered normal behavior in most babies. In fact, it’s often a precursor to your baby figuring out how to sit up on their own. Rocking and shaking behaviors usually last for no longer than 15 minutes in this age group.
Another cause of worry in many parents is head banging.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, this practice is more common in boys.
It also starts around 6 months of age. As long as the banging is not hard and your baby seems happy, most pediatricians don’t worry about this behavior.
Head banging usually stops by the 2-year mark.
When to worry
Head shaking and other related behaviors are often considered a normal part of a baby’s development. However, there are instances in which the behaviors might extend beyond simple shaking. Call your pediatrician if your baby:
- doesn’t interact with you or their siblings
- doesn’t move their eyes normally
- develops knots or bald spots from head banging
- shaking increases during moments of anxiety
- seems like they want to hurt themselves
- fails to reach other developmental milestones outlined by your doctor
- doesn’t respond to your voice, as well as other sounds
- continues these behaviors beyond 2 years of age
The takeaway
While head shaking is not usually a cause for concern, there are some instances in which you should consider talking to your pediatrician.
Frequency is often a telltale sign of whether the shaking is normal or not. If you find that your baby shakes their head a little during feedings or playtime, this is likely not a medical emergency.
On the other hand, if the head shaking is frequent and lasts for a long time, you should see a doctor right away.
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Baby Head Shaking (Why Do They Do This?)
Has your baby begun shaking their head? Are you worried it’s a sign of a problem?
As a mother, you expect to shake your head. You have crayon marks on the wall, sharp toys to step on, substances we won’t mention in places you never dreamed of.
However, what you don’t expect is for your baby to shake their head at you.
Understanding why your baby is shaking their head can help you identify developmental milestones as they grow and progress.
Table of Contents
- Should I Worry?
- When Shaking Signals Something Is Wrong
- Is It a Sign of Autism?
- How to Stop Head Shaking
- So… Feeling Better Yet?
Should I Worry?
Many moms wonder if they should worry if their baby is shaking their head from side to side.
The answer — probably not!
Babies grow rapidly during their first year. One important aspect is the development of gross motor skills. Gross motor skills refer to how your baby uses the larger muscles and appendages of their body to function and interact with the world around them.
Most babies can sit up, roll over, reach for objects, and explore things with their hands and mouths by the time they are 7 months old.
Although it can be scary when you see your baby start to shake their head, most of the time, they’re doing it for one of the following reasons (1).
- Exploring: Your baby may be testing how their body moves and works. Have you ever stopped to shake your head and notice how it feels? Babies react to all of these things and explore their increased range of motion.
- Entertaining: Does your baby get a happy reaction from others when they shake their head? They could be doing so in hopes of getting your attention.
- Self-soothing: Some babies shake their heads to self-soothe when they get sleepy.
- Imitating: You may not realize it, but there is a good chance you have shaken your head at your baby. They may simply be imitating your action. As they grow, they will also learn to shake their head to say “no” as adults do.
- Fatigue: Tired babies may shake their heads to create dizziness that makes falling asleep easier.
- Ear Infection: Children under the age of 3 are at the highest risk for ear infections, and your baby may be trying to communicate the problem to you.
- Nursing: The habit of shaking the head may come from your baby trying to breastfeed. Your baby’s head may move back and forth as they try to latch, and they may become excited as they nurse. They may also shake their head at the end of nursing to show they have had enough.
- Autism: A baby whose only sign is head shaking is unlikely to have autism.
Babies with autism would have additional features such as having trouble making eye contact with caregivers or being unresponsive when you call their name. They may also exhibit repetitive behaviors such as banging their heads on the crib or wall.
When Shaking Signals Something Is Wrong
As a mother, it’s natural to worry about your little one and some of the new things they do as they grow up. There are a few instances when a baby may express discomfort or pain by shaking their head.
If you notice any of the following in conjunction with your baby’s abnormal movements, it may be time to visit your pediatrician.
- Symptoms of an illness or injury, such as a fever, noticeable scrapes and bruises, or a rash.
- Evidence of a fall that may have hurt your baby’s head.
- Head shaking that increases during times of stress and agitation.
- Your baby bangs their head against their crib or a wall.
- Baby has trouble making eye contact with adults.
- Other developmental delays.
- Lethargic behaviors or is having trouble waking up.
- Stiffening of limbs and muscles, unstoppable shaking or jittering movements, or trouble breathing. These are symptoms of myoclonic seizure. It is very rare, but it can be devastating or even lethal when it happens. It is important for parents to know these features and contact their doctor immediately.
The most common illness that causes a baby to shake their head is an ear infection. One of the hallmarks of an ear infection in infants who cannot verbally express their pain is a fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit or more.
You may also notice your baby becomes upset when placed on their back, has trouble responding to sounds, or has fluid coming from their ears (2). Another frequent indication an ear infection is to blame is when you see your baby tugging on their ears.
No matter the situation, trust your maternal instincts. If your baby is shaking their head in a way that causes you concern after monitoring the situation, reach out for guidance from your pediatrician.
They will be able to help you further.
Is It a Sign of Autism?
On its own, head shaking in babies is not usually a sign of autism. In most cases, autism will manifest in multiple ways for extended periods, so if you have no other concerns about your baby’s movements, it’s unlikely they have autism.
However, it’s always good to pay attention to help discover other signs early on. Autism is a disorder that can affect a child’s development in many areas, so some signs may never show up in an autistic child — they may not have every sign you commonly associate with autism.
You can begin to identify these behaviors in your baby as early as 18 months (3).
Many resources are available for parents trying to determine if their child is showing signs of autism. Most children will grow out of many of the common signs by the age of 3 if they are not autistic.
These are some signs of autism that may be present before 18 months:
- Eye contact: As babies grow, they start to make eye contact, often while nursing.
Babies who cannot maintain eye contact after their eyes adjust to their world should be monitored for autism. - Repetitive behaviors: Unusual repetitive behaviors such as banging head on objects or other maneuvers that can cause self-harm.
- Lack of interest: Even at a young age, babies can show their interest in things happening around them. If your baby seems out of it and unable to interact, mention it to your child’s doctor.
- Slower development: Your baby may have autism if they are hitting milestones consistently slower than other infants their age, especially delayed speech production or comprehension and poor social interactions.
Fortunately, unless your baby is showing any other signs listed above, there is little chance that head shaking should be any reason for alarm. Bringing it up to your child’s health care specialist can help ease your worries or confirm if anything else you’ve seen could be a sign of autism in your baby.
How to Stop Head Shaking
You may want to stop your baby from shaking their head if the action causes them potential harm or discomfort. For example, the constant shaking may make them extremely dizzy or disoriented, leading to falls and spills.
You also don’t want your baby to accidentally hit their head on anything, such as the side of the crib, a table corner, or a wall.
To stop your baby from shaking their head, follow these tips.
- Attention: Do not react when your baby shakes their head. It may be cute, but keep the cell phone down and don’t laugh. If your baby is shaking their head to get attention, any reaction will fuel them.
- Timing: Monitor the time when your baby shakes their head. If the shaking occurs during nursing or before bed, there may be underlying reasons you can address. If they do it for self-soothing purposes, learn more about other methods to help your baby sleep.
- Environment: Seek to create a calm environment for your baby if it seems they are shaking their head due to agitation and stress.
Remove them to a quiet place and gently rock them. Very carefully, place your hand on the back of their head and cradle the head in an attempt to still it. - Massage: Have you heard of baby massage? Grab some baby lotion or oil and try carefully using some of the techniques in the video below to relax your baby’s muscles. There are some specific tips on relaxing the head and neck.
- Consult your doctor: Call your pediatrician if the head shaking is severe or you notice other worrying signs such as developmental delays. Diagnosing problems early or having the reassurance that your baby is fine will help both you and your baby in the long run.
So… Feeling Better Yet?
The good news is it’s unlikely that anything is wrong with your baby if you haven’t spotted any additional signs, and you can fully enjoy your little one and their mannerisms.
If you do notice other concerning signs or symptoms, take your baby in for an evaluation. A doctor can confirm ear infections, autism, or other serious issues, and you’re an outstanding mom for making sure your questions get answered!
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Get to know and participate Baby.ru clubs are a treasure trove of useful information Bioinsurance is the most valuable gift for the birth of a child sick? New parents always carefully monitor their newborn child. That is why the question often arises: why do babies shake their heads from side to side? This condition happens both for harmless reasons, and appears as a result of serious pathological disorders. Contents There are many completely harmless reasons why a newborn may shake his head while feeding. Quite often, when breastfeeding, the baby enjoys. According to studies, it has been proven that if the balance center of the patient's brain is overexcited, then the child enjoys shaking his head. If a newborn has headaches, the baby starts to shake his head to eliminate them. In this case, the child becomes excessively capricious. About why the baby shakes his head, only a competent doctor will tell. The reasons for this condition may be as follows: By shaking the head in these pathological conditions, the baby tries to distract himself from pain. Physiology can tell why the baby shakes its head. After the birth of a newborn, strengthening of the neck muscles is observed for several months. Head shaking is sometimes observed during meals. That is why it is necessary to feed the baby so that his head is fixed in the hands of his mother. After the baby becomes confident in holding his head, mothers should not hold it during the feeding period. If the child often shakes his head, especially at bedtime, then this may indicate the development of rickets. During this period, the baby observes general weakness and twisted limbs. The child cannot hold his head up to 4 months. When this pathology appears, the baby’s sleep is disturbed, the child becomes whiny. Quite often, loss of appetite is a symptom of pathology. If signs of this disease appear, the baby must be urgently shown to the doctor. Only a specialist can correctly diagnose and prescribe rational treatment. Otherwise, the development of flat feet, scoliosis, protrusion of the chest forward is possible. Rarely, babies have this condition due to curiosity. In infants, this phenomenon may occur if the back of the head sweats. The reason for this is improper control of the temperature in the room, excessive wrapping of the baby. With the appearance of disturbing dreams, head shaking in the baby may be observed. There are many reasons for the development of pathology. Quite often a child shakes his head in his sleep due to neurological diseases. In most cases, this phenomenon occurs against the background of: Head shaking in the evening can be observed after a strong emotional outburst. During the period of head shaking, the child screams or cries, after the attack ends, exhales. After this, breathing may stop for a certain time. This phenomenon can be observed in reflex tetraparesis, which is accompanied by a tilt of the head to one side. Since the child has muscle hypertonicity and pathological reflexes, the child cannot hold his head evenly for a long time. Because of this, the child begins to shake his head even in a prone position. If the symptom is observed when falling asleep, then this indicates the development of Krabbe disease. Opticomyelitis is quite often accompanied by this symptom. During the period of falling asleep, the child experiences dizziness during the development of this pathological process. There may be damage to the distal parts of the hands and feet. The disease is accompanied by optic neuritis. The newborn has frequent headaches, so the head is shaking. In some cases, the performance of the pelvic organs is impaired. If a child has epilepsy, then during the period of falling asleep, the limbs may twitch, the head may shake periodically . In a dream, there may be an increase in these signs, because of which the baby begins to cry. But the baby quickly calms down on its own. The severity of the disease directly affects the frequency of attacks and the intensity of headaches. The causes of the symptom are not only varied, but also quite dangerous. Therefore, parents should closely monitor the behavior of the newborn. If there are no other symptoms associated with head shaking, parents need not worry. In some cases, the cause of the appearance of pathology is a surge of emotions that occurs against the background of stressful situations. In this case, you need to try to calm the baby. If the actions of the parents do not bring the desired result, then you need to seek help from a doctor. During the period of involuntary head shaking, head injury may occur. Parents need to take this fact into account and avoid it. If the newborn shakes his head and other symptoms are observed, then the child must be shown to the pediatrician without fail. Only a specialist can correctly diagnose a baby and, if necessary, prescribe a rational treatment. 
The last few days the baby constantly hangs on the chest. It might hang for an hour or two. He regularly falls asleep in the process, but as soon as I take the breast, he wakes up, starts crying and in every possible way portrays that he is hungry! And I give him breast again. So he throws himself on his chest and starts sucking furiously! Or even when he eats, at one moment he spits out his chest and starts shaking his head, puffing, and then digs into it again. Girls what is it? Is he not eating? Overeating? Playing around? She sleeps well and poops and pees regularly. But it exhausts me that I don’t have time to do anything and why he behaves this way. A note of milk seems to be enough. After it, I express a little more ... (but n ... 
We are 3 weeks old, on GW (asks every 2.5-3, well, or in my case, takes without tantrums every 2.5-3 hours). He actively eats for 5-6 minutes, then the hysteria at the chest abruptly begins, I raise it with a column and we have a burp (sometimes we poop well or poop). As soon as it let us go, I again transfer it to a horizontal position in order to supplement it and again, it’s healthy: hysteria, shakes its head back and forth, tries to take the nipple, nothing happens and starts to hysteria even more. Sometimes he grabs his chest, sleeps several times and yells again. Everything is used: hands, n ... 
They may think that baby teeth make breastfeeding painful for the mother. However, if the baby suckles properly, the mother will not be hurt with two, four, or a full mouth of teeth that have erupted from the baby. As with many things in motherhood, the expectation of teeth is often scarier than the teeth themselves. It is important to remember that a baby who suckles heavily at the breast does not... 
This disgrace began during the first feeding after the night, so the option immediately disappears that I ate something. The child demands food, pounces on the chest, sucks for a few seconds and jerks his head back. This is repeated over and over again. Milk flows down the mustache, does not enter the mouth. Then the daughter releases her breast and starts yelling or yelling through her chest. Just a good mother. I lift her lying on my stomach on my arm - she looks forward, stretches out with a string (she loves to fly very much ✈ by airplane) I just put her back on her back or feed her on her side - she yells. At the same time, she kicks me with her feet (she is generally strong with us, the neurologist did not find the tone), shakes her head. And it is clear that there is something like ... 
But when we were 13 days old, I went to the hospital, where they gave antibiotics that were not compatible with HB. We switched to IV for 10 days and colic began. Now we have breastfeeding again - for about 5 minutes we suck normally, then we shake our heads, throw the nipple, we start crying and tucking our legs, suffering from the tummy. We tried to eat lying down, from under the arm, in the “cradle” position and lying on my mother’s stomach - the result is the same Please advise the position for feeding 
There is another version that she does not like or is already too lazy to suck, as sometimes she was fed from a bottle. 
For this, I often received scolding from me “why did you stand silently and watch how your mother / sister attacked me?”. I don’t want to spoil relations with my husband’s relatives, because he had them long before me, usually sti ... 
Massage. Most of the time he helped! The most banal clockwise, how to “shake” the stomach with two fingers in a circle, just put your palm on your stomach and “listen” to how the bubbles run there. With sentences-rhymes that distract the baby. 2. Bend the legs. It helped at first, now it doesn’t, but any activity helps the muscles of the intestines to work, whether it’s lying on the stomach, swimming, or independently waving with all arms and legs. Previously, they did gymnastics, regular school physical exercises and an arbitrary set of movements taken from a video about gymnastics for babies. 3. Baby Kalm. Helped the baby to sleep more peacefully, because. There are soothing herbal oils. The belly was still inflated ... 
In general, on the morning of the 30th, my stomach ached, I just had my last appointment with the doctor. CTG showed nothing, went home to prepare for NG. At lunch I noticed that every 20-25 minutes some kind of pain comes. Well, I began to guess that perhaps today is that day. By 18-00, the pain began to become more tangible and regular, she wrote an SMS to her husband that, it’s scary to me and that, probably, begins. He arrived home from work in 5 seconds and together we counted the contractions: they were irregular (every 3-20 minutes) and not long (about 30 seconds). Well, it became clear that I needed to call an ambulance, but I was afraid and we went to cook pasta)))) After eating, ... 
They may think that baby teeth make breastfeeding painful for the mother. However, if the baby suckles properly, the mother will not be hurt with two, four, or a full mouth of teeth that have erupted from the baby. As with many things in motherhood, the anticipation of teeth is often scarier than the teeth themselves. It is important to remember that a heavily suckling baby cannot bite.… 
They may think that baby teeth make breastfeeding painful for the mother. However, if the child p… 
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Causes of head shaking
In some cases, when performing this action, the child laughs. This is normal, so parents should not worry.
Among them may be completely harmless or indicative of the development of serious ailments. Neurological diseases
In this case, the child has a weak weight gain, the appearance of convulsions and allergic reactions to milk. Quite often the disease is accompanied by vomiting and hyperpyrexia. The newborn becomes excessively whiny. 
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