Why does the baby cry at birth

Written By The HealthMeth Team - Updated On Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00 PM

God Almighty created the fetus

The wisdom of God Almighty appears in His creation since the forty-second day of the fetus’s existence inside its mother’s womb. The light, then God Almighty sends the soul of this fetus to beat its small heart and grow with the days inside its mother’s womb, and God protects it from all harm that befalls him until it grows and becomes able to get out of its mother’s womb and live outside it, the family anxiously awaits the moment when The child cries out after his birth, this cry revives the joy and hope of the parents and this means that the child is in excellent condition and knowledge is with God.


The child's crying is due to two reasons when it comes out of its mother's womb

  • A mystical reason he told us (The Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, no newborn is born except by the devil, and he begins crying from the touch of Satan.
  • The Islamic religion does not contradict with knowledge, and the Muslim man should not deny this thing so that it does not fall within the prohibitions. The Sunnah of the Prophet comes to explain what was mentioned in the Holy Qur’an.
  • The scientific reason for the child's crying (external cause): It is known that the fetus in its mother’s womb is nourished by the placenta and that its body parts are fully completed and the last thing of the internal organs is fully developed is the lungs, so the lungs are filled with placental fluid, so the heart passes the lungs and pumps blood from Right to left side, directly through the blood vessels without returning to the lungs.


How does the fetus breathe

When the fetus is in its mother’s womb, it inhales the oxygen present in its mother’s womb with the new oxygen that its mother inhales. This makes the fetus’s color purple or blue, and when the fetus’s lungs begin to work, the vessels that used to supply blood to the fetus begin to close and the holes in The right and left side of the heart of the fetus that helps the blood pass through the lungs, for this reason the blood begins to flow from the lungs to the left side of the heart, and when the main blood vessels close, the blood starts to flow from the right side of the heart to the lungs.


At this moment, small blood vessels grow inside the lungs working to transport blood to and from the heart and lungs, the fetus becomes able to breathe oxygen by itself, and is able to throw its first breath outside its mother's womb, a condition called a reaction to cold crying occurs and occurs during (2) _4) ​​minutes after the birth of the child, as children are born with a wet body due to the placental fluid, when they are exposed to the outside atmosphere (the delivery room), they are exposed to a first blood clot called "the crying reaction due to the cold weather", which leads to the baby crying, and this reaction accompanies the child His growth during the first months of his birth, and also for the same reason that he cries when the diaper is wet.


Cold-pressure reaction

The second reaction is called (the cold pressure reaction), as the cold skin leads to an increase in the blood pressure in the body of the newborn so that the child cries at that, and in the case of crying, the child breathes deeply, and after being exposed to the outside world, the skin cools. Meanwhile, the diaphragm shrinks And the muscle at the bottom of the lungs shrinks, as well as the muscles between the ribs contract and leads to an enlargement of the lungs, which causes negative pressure in the chest.


Thus, the child became, with every operation of inhaling oxygen, the amount of blood flowing to the lungs increased, as with this operation he had a mature heart with two bellies and two ears, and he became able to coexist outside his mother's womb, Glory to God the Creator and praise be to God for everything