Colic @ 3 weeks - Infant Care (up to 18 months old) Message Board

Namibia · 11-25-2008, 07:11 AM

Hi I am new to this board and need some assurance from other moms.

My baby girl was born on the 4th November and up until the weekend she was very good. She now starts crying at 1am and does not stop till about 5am. She has cramps and is very uncomfortable. We has an appointment at the peadeatrition today and he says she has colic. My Dh helps with the feeds as she is a bottle baby till 12am and then I take over so I at least do get some sleep during the night. I would like to know how do other moms in the same situation cope?

Charlene

carlon923 · 11-25-2008, 12:29 PM

I feel your pain...my dd is 8 months old now and the most happiest baby ever, but she was colic starting at about 3 weeks till 9 weeks. i was lucky where she would cry during the day and not nap...so at least me and my husband were able to sleep at night and this was all new to be b/c my oldest daughter (now 6) was perfect from day 1. Have you tried any gas relief drops or grip water for the crampy / gas. That would help my dd a little. She also had acid reflux so the ped. put her on med. for a month. Hang in there...it does get soooo much better. I didn't believe it. She seriously woke up one day and a new baby was there.

dina08 · 11-25-2008, 01:42 PM

Please check to see if your baby has reflux. Mine does and we blamed it all on colic until it didn't go away in time. Then, we finally took her to a GI doctor who confirmed that she had reflux and we put her on medicine. By this point, she had developed a severe food/bottle aversion and I had to feed her asleep for many many months. We are still working on the food aversion. We tell each other now that we will be able to recognize the signs if our next baby has reflux and we will put the baby on medicine right away.

LauraLu · 11-25-2008, 06:16 PM

Have you considered changing her formula? My daughter became extremely aggitated when she was 2 1/2 weeks old. She would just cry and cry at night and make lots of grunting noises. I switched her from a milk based formula to a soy and she was like a different child. We did it very gradually so as not to disrupt her system all at once.
I would try a formula change. It at least couldn't hurt. It can take about 4-5 days to see an improvement as well. Also, like the previous poster said, baby gripe water is wonderful! It really helped my daughter with gas. We also bicycled her legs to help her during the formula change.
My heart goes out to you! I know it's tough.

Good luck!

Namibia · 11-26-2008, 08:53 AM

Thanks for your advise.
Dina the pead checked everything yesterday and 'ruled' out reflux but if it continues I will definatley have it checked out.

Lauralu I spoke to the pead about changing formulas and he told me he did not think it was necessary. He did prescribe some medication for her but she spits it out as soon as we give it to her. As for changing the formula I am now so scared b/c of the melamine found in the formula here. Luckily the brand I use S26 is not affected or so they say, I am not keen to change.

Carlton your post gives me hope, I hope that my baby also just wakes up one day a new child. I just wish her colic episode would be during the day and not at night as the sleep deprevation it really getting to me. I suppose I just need to get used to it.

Thanks again to all of you it is nice to know I am not alone and have ladies to turn to.

Charlene