to all parents who have colicky baby!!!!?

Question

my son was diagnosed with colic (by 2 doctors). he is having the colic signs except for "3 hours crying". is it normal? or all colicky babies really cry for several hours?
he is 11 weeks old now. he use to cry unconsolibly when he was 8 weeks but only for 30 mins.
at what age your child colic pass?

Answer 1

Lots of first born babies (and especially boys) are colicky. Ours was too! Its awful isn't it? But it does pass! Our baby's crying started to taper off at about 3 months. At around 3 to 4 months is when most colicky babies crying lessens. Some good remedies are the 4 s's: shushing, swinging, swaddling, singing. Our baby liked to be quite vigorously bounced around, and loved Nora Jones (especially her second cd). Good luck and know that your baby will outgrow this! Try to get help from family if you can, so that you can take the odd break as it can be very very draining!

Answer 2

My daughter had colic and would cry for an hour at 6:30pm every night. To give him some relief you might try this:

Take a hot water bottle and fill it about half way. Wrap in in a hand towel. Lie a blanket on the couch or floor, put the hot water bottle on the blanket and lie your son on his tummy across the hot water bottle and pat his little bum. This doesn't stop the colic, but it did give my DD some relief. I think her colic only lasted a month (I can say ONLY now that it's in the past :) )

Answer 3

Join the club. Yes there are babies that cry all the time. It is convenient for doctors to "call" it colic. They don't know. It is hell on parents, but the good news is that it does pass. Putting the baby on a fixed feeding, play, sleeping schedule really helps. Make sure this baby sleeps in his own crib, and does not sleep with you. Babies let parents find out how impatient we really are. We never knew how impatient we were until Baby. Two hours of sleep each night, if you can get it, just wears you out. So if you have a family that can relieve you, that would be great. As time goes, baby needs to know that yes means yes and no means no.
Permissive parents create monster children. My worst baby doctors had ever seen son is now 12. He is a good boy. He sure put us through a lot when he was young. Great set of lungs. Trips were miserable as he screamed the whole way. This all passed.
So hang in there.

Answer 4

You must get the homeopathic drops Cocyntal. They are the only relief that my grandson got when he was about 3 months old and cried with colic pain every night for about 3 hours. We also changed his milk to soy, and the bottles to dr. Brown's. Gripe water helped a bit but it was the cocyntal that really did the trick. We also took him to a Chiropractor who worked on tight muscles in the thoracic area of his back. That helped a lot too. We rocked, sang, did the bicycling exercises, drove him around in the car, rubbed his tummy, and walked and walked and walked. Some help but not a lot. My daughter couldn't take the crying so I had to deal with it. This lasted for about a month. Not a happy time at all. Then comes teething!!

Answer 5

My son had colic which he developed at a few weeks old and it continued until he was nearly 3 months. It was a very, very difficult period for me (and for my husband, although less so because he was at work during the day). The crying would start EVERY single evening between 6.30pm and 7pm and would continue until around 10.30pm or 11pm. Although the sheer volume was hard to deal with, the very hardest part for me was seeing and hearing my son in such obvious and severe distress and being able to do precisely nothing about it. It used to stress me out so badly. All I can remember my husband doing was learning how to use the subtitles feature on his fave TV shows! It hardly seemed to affect him at all! People say that colic is caused by trapped wind, but that just doesn't make any sense to me. Why on earth would a baby be fine and happy after 6 - 8 of his feeds every day, and then screaming in pain after the other one? It makes no sense whatsoever. The best thing I can say about colic is that it stopped just as suddenly as it started; one day he had it, the next he did not. Its was a very weird experience, and it put me off having another for a good long while!

Answer 6

They can cry for hours. What the littlest babies sometimes do is scream and cry and maybe fall into a light sleep, only to wake up and scream again. That's the type of thing that kind of goes on for hours.

Try to let him be in a position so his legs are curled rather than laying him out flat. If he starts to straighten out his legs in pain let his feet push against the palm of your hand. Sometimes that may help the baby expel any gas. Wrap a receiving blanket around the lower half of his body snugly, and hold him snugly.

Do you still warm his milk? Warm milk can be better. Do you make sure you hold the nipple in a way that he isn't also taking in air? Did the doctor say anything about changing his formula? Is there iron added to his formula? Might no-iron help?

Answer 7

My sons colic cleared up with a formula switch to soy, but by three months it should be almost over. If youre breast feeding try a change in your own diet and see if that affects his moods. I know how it is, my son would turn on the wails at 6 then shut off at 11....you could have set a watch by him. Then with the switch it was an almost immediate relief to what youre experiencing now with the 30 min cries....eventually they go down to nothing.

Answer 8

What causes colic on babies is gas in their tummy. That's why it's so important to burp him. When he starts to sit up, then it should go away cause the air will come up on it's own then. I used to hold my baby when he had colic and press gently on his tummy with my hands, it seemed to help some. I would hold him facing away from me with both of my hands on his tummy. What might help also is laying him on his back and getting his legs and bending them gently against his tummy and back...like he's doing excersises, sometimes that'll make him flactuate. You may want to try that after a diper change, or a bath, when he's not in such pain, of course...good luck, hon

Answer 9

The time frame is different for all babies. Some cry more than others, and for a longer time. If it seems to you that he is getting worse, he might have a problem (intolerance) with the formula he is taking, or a certain food you are eating, if you are breastfeeding. You could try changing whichever formula he is on, or watching what you eat (spicy foods, gas-causing foods, greasy or high fat foods) if you are breastfeeding him.

Good luck to you both, I sure hope he feels better soon!

Answer 10

its fairly normal and goes away depending on the baby but it should settle after a month or so. its scary i know and at times heart breaking (what parent doesn't want to help their baby feel better?) but don't fret-he'll get past it. ALL babies on some level have it (some more so than others) any parent telling you their baby slept through the night since day one-is down right lying or not paying attention to their kid.