Anyone ever have a baby with colic?
 

OMG.
She's five weeks old and a sweetheart, and I love her to death.
But she's just started having colic - what a nightmare :Oh crap
Anyone who's gone through this have any suggestions so that we don't lose our minds? :helpme

Had younger brothers that I basically raised since my parent was a single father. Honestly its just a suck it up and deal with it issue. It sucks and I feel for you. Its just sort of intestinal issues and whatever you do, do not use baking soda as it can make shit worse by changing their PH. However it can work under other situations, I just feel to not risk it. Some others may say some chamomile and or peppermint tea, again iffy but does help digestion.

All the best to you my daughter had it for 2 years.....rumble chairs and bundling sometimes helps.


NosMo

We have a 16 month old with gas problems and he still hasn't slept a night. Used to cry all day, all night and half the night turning and twisting until he was 15m. He's been on a hyperallergic diet but haven't helped. The past weeks we've given him herbs to kill the gas and the days are so much better.

So, if she is 5 weeks old you have really nothing to worry about. Colic is just a small stage until roughly 12 weeks and only for a few hours each day. Just make sure you see a real doc with knowledge if it keeps going.

All three kids...welcome to parenthood.

One trick that would work is taking a ride in car. Make sure to change the baby into fresh clothes and diapers. Wrap the baby up like a burrito, strap her in and take a joyride around the neighbor.

Thanks everyone - I know it's primarily a "suck it up" thing but hints like the car rides help...we're already using a rumble chair, she loves it when she's not colicky but it doesn't help in the bad periods...we also have heard that bundling or swaddling can help with many babies, but she hates being swaddled, unfortunately --- she'd much rather be naked, which I'm not overly comfortable with, given the business I'm in :upsidedow

But thanks for the support and hints...any other would be welcome :thumbsup

That definitely helps me put things in perspective, at least. I'm sorry to hear about the situation you're dealing with, I can't even imagine. Glad the herbs have helped and hope things continue to improve. (And we have a terrific pediatrician, who will definitely be hearing from us if it gets worse.)

Several of my friends children had colic and the only couple that solved it, did it by accident, when they broke up and moved to separate houses (the parents) the kids were "cured" overnight. Sorry I know that's not really useful to you, but at least it's pretty clear to me that those things are related to the atmosphere at home and especially how the parents are feeling.

Though I'm no doctor and never had to go through it with my kids.

Hope it all works out for you man!

fingers crossed, my baby just turned 2 months old and only cries when he needs something.. Can recognize all his cries, and they get solved fast.. He has a new cry where he gets CRAZY loud if you take his bottle away halfway through sometimes.. :)

I feel for you man, I think the best suggestion so far is the earplugs honestly.

We tried all sorts of things when he was around her age, but nothing helped, so I can't really recommend anything to you. Try to hang in there and hopefully it will ago away shortly. Try to get some sleep when you can and have family or friends come over and take her for a ride if you can't cope anymore.

Someone already mentioned what worked for my two boys,

warm herbal peppermint tea.

Peppermint or Camomile Tea is good usualy, depends on how bad it is though. If you do not mind medicine, there is something called Sab Simplex which destroys the gas bubbles so the gas can escape. Helped with my now 12 week old...
We also gave her caraway suppositories now and then to help clear her bowels.

Does your wife breast-feed? If so, it might be that your girl simply reacts badly to something in the breast milk. We switched to Formula and all problems went away over night. ("Pre" Formula is what we give her, do not switch to those designated as "3 months+" since they usually have loads of sugar added)

one of ours had colic, makes you feel so helpless. We found the chair, but that only worked so long and car rides in the middle of the night helped the most. Best of luck I feel for you:thumbsup

Zone therapy helped our son she massaged him under his feet, she said at 3.15 he would go to the toliet and after that he should be ok, he went at 3.20 and after that he never had it again and thats after having it for 2 years, we was so happy no more sleepless nights :)

I raised 3 babies and as one poster hinted in many cases it really is the parents karma the kids react too. My wife and I both live intensely and go through the same emotions as everyone else, but at the end of the day are happy, at peace, almost never argue, and completely unworried about anything.

I think kids pick right up on that, all 3 slept like stones almost from birth. :2 cents:

Gripe Water

or plain fennel tea

fennel tea is the only thing that works on our son.. if he doesn't drink a cup every night we are in for a night of trouble

is your wife breast feeding? sometimes the milk dries up a little as the day goes on and they get hungry later in the day. also make sure the baby is suckling long enough to be getting enough of the hind milk.

we've just gone through what you're experiencing so i pity you, but it does get better. our colic turned out to be hunger, and sumplementary bottles of formula milk helped a lot.

:thumbsup!

Try running the Vacum, the humming sound can be very soothing to them. Cant remember where I read that, but we have 2 and it worked for us, and you get the benifit of a clean house....Worked for us ;)

I wish her the best of health.

I have done this twice and it works. Take the child to a chiropractor. I know it sounds nuts but the wife read about it somewhere and it worked twice for us. Worth the $60 or whatever it was.

Mylicon Drops... http://www.mylicon.com/

:pimp

Most the time it is cause by gas build up.... Figure out what is causeing that gas build up and eliminate it... Cheap bottle, pacifyer, not being burped good enough after meals.. Ect.


In the mean time put pressure on her tummy as you burp her and make sure she lets out a man sized beltch!

Good luck to you mang... :thumbsup

You may have what is known as a Trained Night Crier. Babies who are put down to bed, after being rocked or held till asleep, never learn how to put themselves back to dream land, without parental assistance.

You might find this link helpful

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/pa/pa_nightcr_hhg.htm

I too thought my kid was colicy but the Doc gave me some simple adjustments to bed time routine and after Three days of hell, we had a baby that slept from 8 PM to 7 AM with 2 naps a day.

Sigh .. my "baby" is 22.

God Bless your new one!

it may be a canadian thing but we always used Gripe Water

Try different foods... on our 5th food our son finally slept through the entire night. Enfamil Gentlease.. Good luck!

Thanks everyone - we'll take a look at all the suggestions and links, and try a lot of them, I'm sure.

For those who asked, no, she's not being breast-fed so it's not the foods that mom is eating or lack of milk --- she's been on mylicon almost since birth and we already switched her to the gentlease formula, because she was gassy and fussy and times throughout the first four weeks.

Again, thanks for all the ideas and support, it's a big help just knowing how many people went through this, and I'll report back on what (if anything) works. :)

Testing out formulas is going to be your best bet. Try whatever you haven't tried yet ;)

Also make sure it IS colic. Friend's baby had what they suspected was colic but ended up being something more serious and was put on Tagamet.

And if you think THIS is fun, just wait for teething :)

Yep, a call to the doctor for an appointment is on the list for tomorrow morning to make sure.

Thanks...that's a BIG help :disgust

Hope things are more peaceful where you are today :)

tony's brother had it when he was a baby.
he said that once his mom put his brother on goat's milk, it went away.

Mike, here's a hint about teething - many babies run a high fever (my son's would hit 101-102) JUST BECAUSE OF THE TEETHING. His pediatrician was my pediatrician when I was growing up and had seen thousands of kids over the years. He said every book said babies didn't run fevers with teething so doctors would write out a prescription for Amoxicillin each time and now as they get older it's harder for the drugs to have any effect because they've built up a tolerance. But our Dr. said it happened with all 3 of his kids and he'd seen it 100s of times.

So.....if your baby gets a fever and Tylenol brings it down immediately, they feel better w/o the fever and a tooth pops up, don't believe what the "books" say :) Not saying don't get care for her, lol, but just that it's a possibility. This same thing happened to my son even when he got his permanent teeth, BTW.

Yep before that my mom was basically up most of my brothers first 5 months. Any pics back then she had rings so dark under her eyes she looks like a racoon. Then when to another doc he said goats milk and it was a miracle.

Thanks :-)
I"m going to print this out and put it in the "baby" folder...right now, I'm so nutso there's no way I'd remember it when the time comes :1orglaugh

ewwwww :1orglaugh
will definitely keep in in mind though, thanks :thumbsup

Dude!! I feel for you.. I have a daughter that is 3 month old. Thank god for google!! Me and my girl check shit out online daily!


I understand what you are dealing with!! I Make my call times noon, because of the sleep i dont get!! its a 24/7 job! A month ago, my daughter spit up at 3am, no noise, nothing! I and my girl sleep with one eye open. You will have to do the same.

Its been better the last 2 weeks, but now i just want to play with her before work. My Girl says she is old enough to go into the crib in the other room, I say no way!! mabe at 4 months, but not now. I keep remembering what could have happened if i did not catch my daughter choking in silence.



I generally dont share my close personal life with people, but if my posts helps you find the streangth to stay up late night and be there for your daughter, its worth the time i spent writing this an sharing my personal experience..


Be strong! It will get better.:2 cents:

I can't make any recommendation as to what might work, because nothing I tried worked with my son, but I do wish you the best of luck.

The munchkin used to scream 8-9 hours straight, and that is a literal-no-exaggeration statement.

I really thought I was going to end up committed somewhere.

But he's 12 now, so we survived it. Still has a funny tummy though. ;)

As suggested by others we tried various formulas to try to relieve our son. I'm not sure if it was the formula or just coincidence, but as son as we switched over to the Costco brand formula all of his symptoms were 100% better.

Good luck to you. I remember how stressful it can be. It will pass though. :thumbsup