{"id":254988,"date":"2025-07-11T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254988\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:55:15","slug":"why-wont-your-baby-stop-crying-genetics-not-just-parenting-play-big-part-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254988\/","title":{"rendered":"Why won\u2019t your baby stop crying? Genetics, not just parenting, play big part, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">How much a baby torments its parents with its cries is determined not just by parenting techniques but also by genes, new research has shown.<\/p>\n<p>After a study on hundreds of twins, a team of scientists in Sweden has concluded that how long a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3166375\/baby-wont-sleep-experts-provide-advice-and-tips-guilt?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">baby cries<\/a> for is largely determined by genetic factors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The child\u2019s sleep quality and ability to be soothed during its first few months are also influenced by genetic predisposition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFor parents, it may be a comfort to know that their child\u2019s crying is largely explained by genetics, and that they themselves have limited options to influence how much their child cries,\u201d said study leader Charlotte Viktorsson, from Uppsala University in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A study on the sleep quality and crying duration in infants found twins woke up less frequently than single children. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bae3a7fd-3de2-43e9-953a-148c05325ba0_b8e33747.jpg\" title=\"A study on the sleep quality and crying duration in infants found twins woke up less frequently than single children. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>A study on the sleep quality and crying duration in infants found twins woke up less frequently than single children. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team\u2019s analysis was based on questionnaires completed by the parents of 998 same-sex identical or fraternal twins when the children were two months and five months old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How much a baby torments its parents with its cries is determined not just by parenting techniques but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[2420,98015,98017,267,98019,70,98018,812,27779,16,15,98020,98016],"class_list":{"0":"post-254988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-parenting","9":"tag-baby-crying","10":"tag-charlotte-viktorsson","11":"tag-genetics","12":"tag-jcpp-advances","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sleep-routines","15":"tag-sweden","16":"tag-twins","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-uppsala-university","20":"tag-why-is-my-baby-crying"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114832115557367647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}