Babies who cry frequently and suffer from sleeping and feeding problems could go on to develop behavioural problems through their childhood.<\/p>\n
Persistent crying and sleeping problems are known as regulatory problems, affecting around 20 per cent of babies.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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