Why and why does the child wince in a dream, cry and wake up?
The children of the first years of life still lack the system of nervous regulation, because their mood is very changeable and they can not restrain their emotions. At night, when the body relaxes, the baby, like any other person, has alternating phases of sleep - fast and slow.
When there is a slow phase, the child sleeps very hard and it is difficult enough to wake it, and during the fast, it is just twitching, crying, wincing. During this period, the child has dreams that, like an adult, are not always positive and the baby often reacts to them with night crying.
Most often, such behavior as nocturnal jerks and crying, there are times when a child before going to sleep very actively plays, sports, or a noisy company comes to visit in the evening. All experiences for the day, even positive emotions pour out into their nightly experience.
That is why it is very important that the children behave quietly before going to bed. They need a certain evening ritual that will allow them to go to sleep in a calm atmosphere. The less emotion they experience in the evening, the stronger they will begin to sleep.
Wincing as a sign of disease
In the case when the baby always slept well at night, and then suddenly his behavior changed radically and he feels stress and anxiety in the night, then it is unacceptable to leave such a situation without solution.
Children can have nocturnal cramps, but they can not be confused with spontaneous flinch, because they last longer and they involve either the whole body or only the limbs. This condition occurs in children with epilepsy , but fortunately, it is rare enough.