Persistently crying babies more likely to suffer ADHD

Babies who cry frequently and suffer from sleeping and feeding problems could go on to develop behavioural problems through their childhood.

Persistent crying and sleeping problems are known as regulatory problems, affecting around 20 per cent of babies.

Now new research published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, finds that infants with regulatory problems are more likely to have childhood behavioural problems than those children without.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland, University of Warwick in the UK and the University of Bochum in Germany, found that children who had regulatory problems as a baby were most likely to display aggressive or destructive behaviour or have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in later life.