Planned inspection in a clinic and medical procedures such as injections, vaccinations, instillation in the nose of a drop - are not the most pleasant events in children's life. It is not surprising that many children seeing a snow-white robe, cry, shout, and in the medical office are satisfied with a real hysterical. What if the kid is afraid of doctors? How to help your child overcome this fear? We picked up simple, but tested by moms and psychologists recommendations.
Long corridors, many doors leading to mysterious rooms in which there are strict aunt in white, buzzing devices, incomprehensible words, which Mom exchanges with the doctor will be exchanged ... Agree, such an atmosphere does not attach to the crumb of optimism.
Do not hurry to upset - if the baby prepare and correctly behave with him in the clinic, it will be possible to forget and anxiety, and hysterics. But first try to figure out where the legs "grow" from such fear.
Fear of doctors - where does it come from?
Children under the year are faced with medical workers constantly - monthly surveys, numerous analyzes and are a "mandatory program". Thanks to the peculiarities of their memory, unpleasant moments are quickly forgotten. Another thing is the kids older than the year. Where does this phobia come from?
Video answer why children are afraid of doctors
So, the reasons are revealed, now it remains to know what to do if your karapuz is afraid of doctors. According to experts, the choice of "medication" depends on the age of a young patient.
If the baby is 1 year: warning fears
One-year-old children are usually not afraid of medical examinations, but they react to any physical inconvenience: an unfamiliar situation, vanity and noise, a loud voice of an alien person, pain. How to remove psychological tension and prevent the appearance of phobias?
- Do not lose self-control
Thanks to the strong emotional communication, the kid perfectly understands the mother's condition, and any nervousness is transmitted to him instantly. Keep calm, do not infect it with negative experiences, and if the excitement cannot be avoided, ask to take a grandmother or father to the clinic.
- Plan a visit time
It is necessary to observe the usual routine of the day. Hungry or sleepy children are unlikely to be delighted with medical examination. Also, do not try to go through all the specialists at a time, otherwise the crumb will get tired and calling.
- Give the baby to get used to the room
Try to come to the hospital in advance, walk along the corridor, avoiding crying peers. Find something fascinating (bright posters, flowers in pots), then time in the queue will fly imperceptibly.
- Do not hurry with treatment
Entering the office, introduce a child with a pediatrician: "Look, this is aunt Katya. She is very kind and affectionate. You are talking to her! " Keep the crumb on the hands, stroking on the back and head - at that age there is important touch. Try to divert the rattle if it gathered to cry.
- Call your doctor
If children categorically do not want to visit the clinic, use the services of a paid doctor. Invite your home, ask him before the examination not to wear "terrible clothes" and play a little with the baby in the nursery.
If children are 2 years old: we reduce nervousness
Older kids need to be explained, why do the doctor attend. If your child has a positive attitude to medical professionals, he will not be afraid of hospitals.
- Be honest with children
You can not deceive the baby - they say only the truth, because it scares himself not the pain, but what he does not know. For example, do not claim that the doctor just listens to him if the vaccine actually has. Otherwise, the next time the child will refuse to leave the apartment, even if you need to just take a certificate.
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- Take a toy
Try to distract from unpleasant thoughts by buying a new fascinating toy or book. You can move away from strict rules and allow you to play with a tablet or mobile phone.
- Do not compare with others
In the queue in front of the door of the cabinet, such a phrase often sounds: "Look, that boy is brave, sitting quietly and will not disgrace his mother." Kroch might think that he is bad and not worthy of Mamina Love. To calm the panty, tell me: "When you were a little younger, you were not at all afraid of vaccinations. Even a tete nurse said that you were very bold. "
- Do not wait for good behavior
Do not require the baby to observe etiquette - Hello with the doctor and behave "as an adult". Let him look at the office, get used to an unfamiliar man. If the child is scared and pay, you can not swear and spank on the pope. Hug and try to calm the roaring child.
If the child is 3 years old: get rid of fears
Unfortunately, it happens that, despite all the measures taken, three-year children still tremble at the sight of a medical uniform. What to do in such cases?
- Explain why medical procedures are needed
It is necessary to tell that it is waiting for a child in the office, for which certain medical manipulations are needed. For example: "The vaccination will help you not get sick. The blood test will tell the doctor than you are sick. The dentist will save you from dental pain and make your teeth healthy. " Your explanation will help children tolerant treat treatment.
- Give a children's first aid kit
Buy a toy kit with medical instruments: syringes, stethoscopes and heels. Take a doll and a teddy bear on the role of patients who need to feel tummy, inspect the throat, take blood for tests. In the course of the game, tell me how to perform various procedures, and together rejoice in "corrected" toys.
- Use talentherapy
Before visiting the hospital, see cartoons about the doctor, drugs: "About the hippopotamus who was afraid of vaccinations", "Bird Tari". Especially love the little children a fairy tale about good Aybolit, who helps the fallen animals. Be sure to answer all the questions that have arisen.
- Promise the reward for courage
Typically, psychologists actually oppose that parents are trying to achieve the children of the necessary behavior with the help of "bribery". The only exception is visiting doctors. The kid must be sure that his bravery will be rewarded - not necessarily a toy or sweetness, but, for example, a campaign in the amusement park.
- Let me cry
Strict taboo on tears can cause reverse reaction. Let the child pay, it will become a good emotional discharge. Tell us that you understand His fearful perfectly, but you need to suffer a little. Never fit for fear and anxiety - the phrase of the type "Men don't cry", "you are already big" should be excluded.
The child is afraid of the dentist - what to do?
Sometimes, children relate to a definite doctor - most often to the dentist. In this case, it is difficult to speak not only about the treatment of patients with teeth, but also on prophylactic observation. How to make friends kid with a dentist?
- Choose a doctor on the recommendation - find out from your friends and friends, in which specialty children's clinic they treat children.
- Come to the first reception as an excursion. Ask the Doctor to demonstrate to the crumb of your office, tools, allow to sit in the chair.
- You should not focus on the unpleasant sensations, gathering with the child to Dentistist. And at the same time it is impossible to say that the dentist will not be done at all, is not true.
- Do not attempt for one visit to cure a few teeth - the baby will not stand in the dental chair for more than 15 minutes and rockets.
- Tell us that you will always be next to the child and will definitely come to help him if it is necessary.
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Every mommy is a psychologist herself, so we decided to know what the parents did, in whose families small panties will grow, categorically refusing to contact with the pediatrician.
Eugene, Mom of two year old Danil: "My son in exactly the same situation helped the following. We changed a district doctor on a paid and led to a survey not a child, and a beloved teddy bear. The doctor quickly understood what was the matter, thoroughly "treated" the bear, and only then began to trunk. Since then, we sincerely go to the goodwood to treat ... Bear.
Elizabeth, Mom 4-year-old Kati: "We have not so acute with us with age. We often read about Aibolita, bought daughter Doctor's kit (injections, tubes, thermometers). At the reception I try not to worry and calmly talk to the physician. And when we are going to the clinic, I will definitely say that there will be done there and that it will be practically not painful. "
Anna, Mom Three-year-old Diana: "We had a similar situation ... My daughter just screamed, seeing a man in a white coat. But once came to the dentist, who was able to make friends with her, and his Dianoch was not crying at all. And at home even asked: "When will we still go to pull the teeth?" Here are such wonderful doctors you can meet! "
Video plot: how to make the child stopped afraid of doctors
Specialists of the Children's Multidisciplinary Hospital Kemerov developed their techniques and successfully implement it:
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For many children and parents, a hike in the clinic becomes a test. Especially when it comes to painful procedures. The child is afraid of injections or a child does not give to treat his teeth - what to do?
We talked to S. child pedagogue-psychologist, candidate of psychological sciences, leading "architectural school them. Pope Carlo »Oleg Borisovich Zernitsky About how to help a child of preschool or younger school age cope with fears before a visit to the doctor. In the article you will find 6 ways, how to wean a child to be afraid of injections and other medical procedures.
Even do not go to the doctor, but the eyes are already wet
What is the fear of doctors? Is it a mental disorder or simply emotion?
In European culture it is believed to be afraid of shameful. Boys and girls sometimes shame the tears in the doctor's office: "You're already an adult!", "Won, Petya is not crying, and you!". But fear is the most important basic emotion. She protects us from dangerous, traumatic actions and situations. Do not force the child to suppress your experiences, help him become the owner of fear.
How is fear formed? Why are children afraid of injections, and adults can and need to talk to them about pain?
Let's start with how fear is formed. Most often, strong fear of medical procedures begins to form at the kid from one year to three years. Including because of the behavior of parents who are not trying to explain to the child that it will happen to him. Having once a negative experience, the child is afraid of vaccinations - what to do parents now? In principle, everything is simple.
If it is assumed that the child will hurt, honestly tell him about it. Compare the sensations with already familiar: "Just painful than the Komarik bite," "as if you were poured."
Fear of doctors is actually a fear of mistrust to the world. For a child, security is in many ways predictability. That is why it is so important to be honest with the baby and on the language understandable to him (games, creativity, cartoons) to explain what it expects it, and why it is necessary ("so that the teeth do not hurt", "so as not to infect").
If it is assumed that the child will hurt, honestly tell him about it. Compare the sensations with already familiar: "Just painful than the Komarik bite," "as if you were poured."
6 ways so that the child is not afraid of the doctor
As we said, it is important to tell the truth. But for a child just to hear the explanation is not enough. It is important to him all emotionally play.
Choose a way to like the child - he must support the initiative. Do not make what he does not want.
1 Fight fear: "Let's play a doctor?"
If a child is afraid of doctors, play with toys and dolls of situations that will occur with a child in a clinic or hospital.
To do this, prepare suitable toys and, if you can, medical supplies.
What if the child is afraid of the dentist? Toys are suitable, which opens the mouth, and better - teeth are visible. If the child has a dam in a toy or even a real syringe.
Choose a way to like the child - he must support the initiative. Do not make what he does not want.
In the process of the game you can change roles. First you treat the toy, then the baby becomes the patient, and you are a doctor, and vice versa. Beat fear.
Take a literary work or cartoon on the topicIf it is difficult to come up with a scenario of the game yourself,. For example, "what was afraid of Petya" S. Marshak or the Soviet cartoon beloved, "about hippo, who was afraid of vaccinations."
Read, look, and then play on roles together with family members. After discuss with the child, what the characters were afraid why they were worth going to the doctor, and that after that should happen.
2 draw fear and positive image of the doctor
You can offer baby draw a kind image of Dr. Aibolit Or another good fabulous or real doctor. At the same time, it is important that the child draws important features and attributes (doctor's clothing, syringe, his assistants, patients).
Good too method "Drawing of Fear". So the child acquires a sense of superiority over him. Let not only fear himself drawn, but also beside him, a large, armed shield and a sword, ready to defeat.
You can explain the work of the doctor on toys. Tooty dinosaur - just for the game in the dentist
3 Disassemble the fear of parts and manipulate its objects
To overcome fear over medical procedures, it is very suitable the "anatomy of fear" method. When the subject scares the most, disassembled into part parts.
It is important to explain here for what you need one or another item, what and why a doctor will do with this subject.
As an example, the syringe is perfect. Disassemble it. Show and tell the child: "This is a cannula, this is a needle, a medicine will be introduced here." Then, on toys or family members, show an approximate procedure: blood take, injection.
4 relax in anticipation of the procedure
The day came, you came to the clinic and wait for the procedure. It is important to teach a child to shoot emotional tension. Take a toy-antistress with you (a homemade bag with a cereal), a set for drawing (you can learn to draw the blots with a tassel with paint, and then invent what they look like). In general, any pleasant thing for the baby occupation, which will help him relax.
5 "First, put the mask on yourself, then on the child!"
Or maybe you are also afraid? Little children are very transmitted tension and alarm of their parents. If you yourself are nervous before a visit, try to control it. Calm, confident in the security of what is happening Mom is half the calm in the child. Worry? Use toys and paint and paint and relaxation too.
6 Last jerk: Be with a child, if possible
You went to the doctor's office, left to survive the procedure itself. How to help your child?
If children are afraid of doctors, first of all must be observed. If they promised to keep the child by the hand - keep. If you said that you will tell a fairy tale - tell.
Of course, your presence on the procedure is not always possible. Before you promise something, think about it.
Observe arrangements. If they promised to keep the child by the hand - keep. If you said that you will tell a fairy tale - tell.
If the child burst into the office before the procedure, calmly explain the doctor that you need to go out and calm down a little. Talk to the child. Hug it. Tell me that you are near and share his fears, ready to support it.
How to remove the tension after the visit to the doctor
Coming out of the office, discuss with the child of his feelings and everything that happened to him. Be sure to praise it for courage. Tell me how the same happened to you that you felt at that moment.
An excellent reward for patience for the child will be a joint campaign in the park, in a movie or in a cafe (this is more appropriate encouragement than buying a toy that makes a situation like a deal).
25.02.2018
Long corridors, many doors leading to mysterious rooms in which strict doctors are sitting in a white coat, terrible sounds, unpleasant smells of medical drugs, all this, you agree, does not give the baby optimism.
Planned inspection in a clinic and medical procedures such as injections, vaccinations, instillation in the nose of a drop - are not the most pleasant events in children's life. It is not surprising that many children seeing a snow-white robe, cry, shout, and in the medical office are satisfied with a real hysterical.
What if the kid is afraid of doctors? How to help your child overcome this fear?
Do not hurry to upset - if the baby prepare and correctly behave with him in the clinic, it will be possible to forget and anxiety, and hysterics. We suggest to figure out, from where the legs "grow" from such fear.Fear of doctors - where does it come from?
Children under the year are faced with medical professionals constantly - monthly surveys, numerous analyzes and planned vaccinations are a "mandatory program." Thanks to the peculiarities of their memory, unpleasant moments are quickly forgotten. Another thing is the kids older than the year.1. Psychologists argue that the fear of doctors is a completely natural reaction of a small little man. For the first two years, the majority of children appear fear of strangers, especially if earlier the circle of their communication was limited only by households. It is not surprising that Kroch begins to cry, if it touches someone else's person, whose part-time is a children's doctor.
2. Sometimes parents themselves intimidate their child: "You will be capricious - I will call the doctor with a big syringe. He will make you bo-bo. " It is not surprising that after such threats, the baby will shrink at the sight of the "villain", which, in his opinion, does not treat, but does "Bo-Bo".
3. Often, children are beginning to be afraid of pediatricians and medical procedures after they put an injection or blood from the finger. Negative experience is a source of anxiety.
4. Often parents are trying to deceive the child, telling that he will not hurt. Some until the latter do not explain where the crumb is leading. And entering the hospital, they say that they came only for the certificate, between the case heaving him into the procedural. After such a "betrayal", children are not only frightened by physicians, but also cease to believe Mamam.
5. The child has not yet formed their own attitude towards other people, so he looks at the parent behavior. If he heard that Dad and Mom express their negative attitude towards dentists or therapist physicians in an adult clinic, he hardly hits his good impression of a visit to the doctor.
6. Unfortunately, not every pediatrician worries, with which mood the child will come out of his cabinet. And not any nurse calms the baby before the prick. Therefore, even the most innocent manipulations sometimes end for children with stress.
So, the reasons for the formation of fear are identified, now it remains to know what to do that the baby stops feeling discomfort and in time calmly and even began to attend doctors with interest.
If the baby is 1 year, we keep calm:One-year-old children are usually not afraid of medical examinations, but they react to any physical inconvenience: an unfamiliar situation, vanity and noise, a loud voice of an alien person, pain. How to remove psychological tension and prevent the appearance of phobias?
It is necessary to observe the usual routine of the day. Hungry or sleepy children are unlikely to be delighted with medical examination. Also, do not try to go through all the specialists at a time, otherwise the crumb will get tired and calling.
Try to come to the hospital in advance, walk along the corridor, avoiding crying peers. Find something fascinating (bright posters, flowers in pots), then time in the queue will fly imperceptibly.
Entering the office, introduce a child with a pediatrician: "Look, this is aunt - a doctor, a kind of good and you are confronted with her!" Keep the crumb on the hands, stroking on the back and head - at that age there is important touch. Try to divert the rattle if it gathered to cry.
Thanks to the strong emotional communication, the kid perfectly understands the mother's condition, and any nervousness is transmitted to him instantly. Keep calm, do not infect it with negative experiences.
If the kid categorically does not want to visit the clinic, use the services of a paid doctor. Invite your home, ask him before the examination not to wear "terrible clothes" and play a little with the baby in the nursery.
Older kids, we reduce nervousness:
Older kids need to be explained, why do the doctor attend. If your child has an understanding of medical manipulations and a doctor's actions, he will not fear hospitals.
The main thing is not to deceive your baby - speak only the truth, because it scares himself, and the pain itself, but what he does not know. For example, do not claim that the doctor just listens to him if the vaccination or medical manipulation actually will actually.
It is important because parents are those whom the baby trusts and who wants to find understanding and help, and if you can't trust you after deception, the baby will be confused in any other stressful situation for him. Be a friend always!
Take with you on the reception your favorite toy
Try to distract from unpleasant thoughts by taking with you to the doctor your baby's favorite toy or the book. Next to the plush friend your child will hold much calmer. You can also try in a playful form to take off the reception to the doctor not the kid himself, but as if his "bolted" soft friend. At the same time, you must explain the baby that his favorite toy fell ill and she needs help a doctor, then the child will gradually formed the idea that attending the doctor is not scary, and even need if you do not want your "bear" to hurt.
Cartoons to help
Before visiting the doctor, look at the cartoons about the doctor, drugs, for example: "Good doctor Aibolit" "About the hippo, who was afraid of vaccinations", "Bird Tari". Especially love the little children a fairy tale about good Aybolit, who helps the fallen animals. Be sure to answer all your baby's questions.
Do not compare the kid 'behavior with the behavior of other children
In the queue in front of the door of the cabinet, this phrase often sounds: "Look, that boy is brave, sitting quietly and will not disgrace his parents." The child may think that he is bad and not worthy of Mamina Love. To calm the baby, tell me: "When you were a little younger, you were not afraid of vaccinations at all."
Tactile method soothe baby
A child in any new and frightening situation wants to cuddle to his mother and ask for understanding. If the child is scared and pay, just hug and try to calm the roaring child. Let him look at the office, get used to unfamiliar space.
Explain why medical procedures are needed
It is necessary to tell that it is waiting for a child in the office, for which certain medical manipulations are needed. For example: "The vaccination will help you not get sick. Blood test will tell the doctor why you fell ill. A dentist will save you from dental pain and make your teeth healthy. " Your explanation will help children tolerant treat treatment.
Give a children's first aid kit
Buy a toy kit with medical instruments: syringes, stethoscopes and heels. Take a favorite plush "friend" to the patient's role, who needs to feel the tummy, inspect the throat, take blood for tests. In the course of the game, tell me how to perform various procedures, and together rejoice in "corrected" toys.
Do not prohibit cry
Even adults in the stressful situation, psychologists forbid to restrain the emotions, what to say about kids who are simply needed emotional discharge. If the baby is crying, just press him with myself, hugging telling you that you perfectly understand His fear, but you need to suffer a little. Never fit for fear and anxiety - the phrase of the type "Men don't cry", "you are already big" should be excluded.
The fear of white bathrobes is common among small patients and adults. In the absence of attention to the problem, it can develop to a real phobia. Many people do not visit the clinic without a good reason, but with children they need to undergo annual surveys. In preschool age, only every fifth child is not afraid of doctors - what if your baby is not among the coup? The task of parents is to warn fears. It is necessary to work on this from the first days of the life of the baby.
Dr. Komarovsky claims that all children's fears have good reasons. If the fear of doctors appeared, the problem arose due to the action of factors:
- Psychologists argue that the emergence of fear for 2 years is a natural process. He is not aimed against representatives of a specific profession. The basis of fear is to touch the child of an outsider.
- The second source is negative experience - unpleasant medical procedures carried out without warning caused pain.
- Parents scare their crumbs doctors: they promise to make an injection for disobedience, because of which medical professionals appear before the preschooler in the role of villains, tormentors.
- When visiting the polyclinics, adults lie to the baby, which came only for the certificate or to inspect, then how they themselves lead it to the blood fence or vaccination.
- An example of adults helps a child to form attitudes towards doctors. If mom even with strong dental pain avoids visiting a dentist's office, then the crocha will bypass the doctor of this specialty side. Restrast from negative statements about the employees of the clinic with a child.
- Often the cause of phobias is the attitude of doctors to patients. It is especially noticeable at the generation, whose childhood had to 70-90 years. Doctors ignored the hysterics of small visitors, which caused the solar fear.
To create a favorable attitude of children to doctors and medical manipulations, parents need to be tried. It is important to avoid the errors listed above, be honest with the baby, to prepare it to visit the specialist. The emerging fear must be eradicated immediately, as it will not disappear by itself.
In adults, the fear of white bathrobes led to the fact that at the sight of doctors in traditional form increased pressure, panic attacks occurred, tachycardia developed. The introduction of color medical costumes partially corrected this problem, but a small number of patients have a phobia.
What if the child is afraid of doctors, but the manipulation themselves? It is in such a form of a phobia that flows in one year old children - they fear others, possible pain, separation with mom. The choice of the method of psychological exposure depends on the age of crumbs. One-year-old kids need to warn fear. They begin to share people on their own and strangers, the touch of an unfamiliar person cause hysteria.
- Adults accompanying the baby, you need to lose self-control. Children read other people's emotions. Nervousness, fear and excitement are inevitably transferred to them.
- Carefully plan visiting time. Deviations in the routine of the day should be minimal. Do not attempt to complete complete closerization for one visit. If you need to pass the tests on an empty stomach, then immediately after manipulation you need to find a place for feeding, always take with you a small amount of food.
- Come to the hospital 10-15 minutes before the reception. This time spend on the study of bright posters, decorations, colors. Give the child to get used to the room. Avoid crying babies.
- With treatment and inspections, too, do not hurry. If you felt that the baby strained immediately after moving to the office, introduce her to the doctor, hold on his hands, stroking back.
With serious problems, the first acquaintance with the doctor is best at home. Call for a survey of a specialist from a private clinic, ask him before the inspection to play a little with a crumb. You should not contact the doctors only because of the disease, attend specialists regularly, follow the condition of Chad. Over time, the situation of the clinic will be remembered, it will seem less terrible and hostile.
What to do in 2 years?
After two years, explain to the child the need to visit a medical institution. Your goal is to create a positive impression. Reduced nervousness psychologists offer ways:
- Honesty - say what procedures and why you need to go through. The most frighten the pain, but the unknownness. Cheating can serve as a catalyst for phobia.
- From unpleasant thoughts, the baby can distract a new toy or a bright book. Permissible to move away from strict rules. Give your child a tablet or mobile with a cartoon or exciting game.
- If he is very afraid, you should not put in an example of other children. By this you only aggravate the negative environment. Refrain from assessments of behavior. Do not say that the crumb is disgraced. The kid will decide that unworthy of love because of his phobia. Replace a negative assessment on the story of the past, tell me that the baby was not afraid of doctors before, it was all praised for courage. It will increase self-esteem, gets fear.
- Many parents are waiting for adult behavior from the preschooler. Because of his fear, he often forgets about grafted manners. This is normal, it is forbidden to beat or shout for such behavior. He is afraid, so does not think about politeness, can cry. Calm, prior to child.
These techniques will make treatment. Psychologists argue that it is impossible to completely get rid of fears in the second year of life. You need to work on it at an older age.
In order not to upset the parents, the baby can say: "I'm not afraid." Learn to read your child's body language. Casual movements, the desire to stay away from medical professionals is the main signs of the inner struggle. If you noticed them, put your baby nearby, intersect your back. He must feel support.
We work with fears over the age of 3
If the child is afraid of doctors in three years, it is necessary to work on the final eradication of fear. At this age, the most stable phobias are developing. Psychologists recommend to parents to use techniques:
The first visit to the hospital in the form of a study tour. Page with the baby by corridors, consider posters on the walls. Use this visit to record on the reception through the registry, choose the most convenient time.
How to get rid of the fear of dentists
Many adults are interested in how to persuade the child to treat teeth - the tips of the psychologist in this case will help the following:
If the child is afraid to treat his teeth or visit the hospital, write down on the morning. To the dinner, the nervousness of the baby will reach the peak, he will constantly think about the upcoming visit.
The problem of fear of medical workers concerns each parent. Due to the need to take blood tests or making kids vaccinations from an early age, doctors and nurses are afraid. Only an integrated approach to the problem can cope with the problem: follow psychologists' tips, do not discuss diseases, show the safety of procedures on your own example.
Children's clinic is not a place for tears and hysterics. But what to do if your baby rests on and compensates for each visit to the doctor, and for you a trip to an ordinary inspection turns into incredible stress?
Here are some tips that will help the baby to overcome the fear of the next visit to the doctor.
"Calm, only calm!"
In most cases, the child is experiencing anxiety, subconsciously copying mom's behavior. Therefore, before trying to calm the baby, consult your feelings. The child travelers the mood of his parents perfectly, and if they are worried about the campaign to the doctor, it means that he really stands to fear something. Hence the whims, and tears, and hysterics. Calm down and try to come to the doctor in a good mood. On the way and in the queue, you joke, laugh, tell the funny stories. Your confidence will be a guarantee of security for a baby, because you really have nothing to fear.
In no case, do not frighten the kid's figure of the doctor!
In all your stories, the doctor must be kind, it helps people, treats and eliminates pain. And injections and vaccinations are just the necessary tools to ensure that all people are healthy.
Remember, and whether you ever spoke to the baby: "I will not cease to fool - the doctor will come and make an injection!". It is such phrases inhibit the children's psyche and bring up fear of injections and people in white coats.
Play with a child to the hospital
The game in the hospital, where an active participant is an adult, can be a good help in the fight against the fear of doctors. Let the child be a doctor, and you are a patient. Through the game you will help the baby more to learn about the work of the doctor. Let the kid will come to the reception first, who cries and is very afraid, and the doctor will calm him. And then a brave and fearless patient will come. In the game you can discuss important issues with the baby and lose different situations. Play more often, and the result will surprise you!
Get ready for visiting a doctor in advance
Never hide from a child what you go to the hospital. Better warning about this baby in advance. From the evening, tell us about where you go, and what kind of doctor awaits you. Briefly describe the procedures that are coming to the child. But do not overdo it with the details! Long and long stories about injections, syringes and procedures will be frightened by anyone. It is better to translate the conversation to another topic, see cartoons or play an interesting game. This will distract the baby from unnecessary thought.
Do not forget about praise!
After visiting the doctor, you definitely hide the baby and tell me that they are proud of them. If the child is not crying and not capricious, secure the result and give positive emotions by visiting the amusement park or ice cream.
Finally, remember that in no case can not scold and punish the baby for tears and whims during a visit to the doctor. After all, it will only strengthen his fear and cope with him will be much more complicated. Support and understanding of an adult is all that needs a child now!
