I really recommend either a chiropractor or craniosacral alignment- worked for me!

My daughter is 7 weeks and is "colicky". I heard never heard of such a thing or even noticed anything mentioned in my pregnancy reading, so when we spent hours with this child that was crying for hours on end I knew something wasn't right. Finally, after many many trips to the pedi I just woulnd't quit and I think they realized it. As I am learning and growning with this whole experience my advice is this...you know your child and if you think something isn't right, then trust your gut. People always have advice and opinions and while it is greatly appreciated, it might not be right for your current situation. Because come to find out...my daughter's terrible "colic" or gas at all. It is acid reflux and a milk protein allergy, which is also becoming very common. Good Luck and Wish Me Some!

My DD's colic is caused by gas. I feel so bad for her b/c when she is gassy she only likes to be held football style, tummy down and I can feel her tummy rumble in my hand and she just toots away.

What drives me crazy is everyone's "you should...." I get so tired of hearing it and we have already tried everything. It's not like we spent the last 2 months listening to our daughter scream and never thought to try to help her!!! My MIL especially. She says she gave her kids peppermint candy melted in water and KEEPS bringing it up. I finally asked the pedi about it just to shut her up, though it makes no sense b/c while mint may settle your stomach, SHE DOESN'T HAVE AN UPSET STOMACH, SHE HAS GAS!!!!! The pedi of course said no water, and certainly no candy melted in water!

The bad thing is when I'm not feeling bad for her, I'm feeling sorry for myself! It's so mind scrambling to listen to a crying baby for hours and hours. My mother always seems to discount my feelings like "poor baby, she can't help it" I'm like I realize that, but it doesn't make it any easier to listen to! Imagine that you had to listen to a dog bark in your ear for 4 hours. The dog can't help it, but wouldn't you still want to smack it on the nose with a newspaper!? LOL

Anyway, good luck to everyone and hang in. Just remember to put your baby somewhere safe and get away from the noise whether it's headphones, vaccuming or whaterver!

My daughter is almost 8 weeks old now and has been colicky since week 3. My husband and I have gone so far as to sit on the toilet in the bathroom with our daughter while turning the hair dryer on high to calm her down. She screamed through walks and drives in the car. The only other thing that helped was parking the vacuum next to her swing while running. In an effort to help her relieve her belly pain, I stopped eating dairy, and started giving her probiotic drops (Probiotics are the "good" bacteria found in yogurt nowadays that is supposed to help regulate the digestive system.). She was also diagnosed with reflux and put on meds for that. Between those 3 things, I am happy to say she is doing much better! She is a new baby and I have my mental health back

So Caitlyn had her 2 month check-up yesterday. As I was describing to her pediatrician what her crying spells were like, I mentioned the word "colic". Her doc looked at me like I was some idiot, and that it was silly to say its colic...now I am second guessing myself. Caitlyn doesn't have screaming bouts as bad as some that I have read on here and elsewhere, but she fusses and whines and cries throughout the day, for about an hour at a time. The really tough part of this is that for the first 3 weeks after she was born, she was perfect. She slept almost throughout the whole day--in fact I would have to wake her up to eat or she would go 6 hours or more without feeding! Everyone said she is so good, such a good sleeper! Man, do I miss those days!

It seems like sometimes NOTHING will soothe her. My husband gets so frustrated with her because when she really gets going, she will flail her arms, swing her head side to side, and just scream like she is one pissed little baby! He keeps saying to me "I just dont know why she is SO mad. I dont like that she is so mad"....what am I supposed to do? I mean I try to tell him that Caitlyn is obviously not feeling good, and crying is her only way to express herself right now. I would be mad and throwing punches too if I had no way to tell someone that something was wrong....

We try lots of different things, and its so frustrating that from day to day, and even throughout the day, the same thing will not soothe her. Sometimes, walking with her does the trick, sometimes I have to rock her. Other times we try singing, changing positions, car rides, the bouncer, gripe water, etc. I just want my baby to be happy and smiling.....this breaks my heart and I feel like such a failure (usually it hits me at its worst at 3 in the morning lol). I dont want any other babies to suffer through colic, but I am sure glad that there are other mommies who know what we are going through!!

My twins are now 3 months old and they both have a milk protein intolerance. This means that they can't break down the large proteins is milk, nuts, eggs, or soy. Of course this means I can't breastfeed. They are on a special formula, Pregestimil Lipil, when already has the large proteins broke down for them. I knew my little girl was intolerant before she came home from the hospital. (My twins were preemies, 9 weeks NICU) Both babies were so content and then when they came home my boy started to get real fussy. By the 2nd week, he would almost be screaming after being fed and always seemed to be straining to have a bowel movement. His bellybutton even herniated. My ped said this was all normal and increased is Zantac (preemies reflux real bad) and gave him a stool softner. Nothing worked and I finally called the pediatric gastrointologist for my girl and took my boy to him. I knew that something was not right because he and my girl had been so content from the day they were born. He tested my boy and bingo, he was milk protein intolerant. He said a lot of babies are intolerant, but that the pediatricians will label it as colic and keep switching formulas or tell you it will get better around 6 months.

My babie's gastro said they will outgrow this between 6 mos to a year. That is when their systems will be able to break down these proteins and abosorb them. My advice, you know your baby best. Take your baby to a gastrointologist. If your baby is protein intolerant, it will take about 2 weeks for improvement, 6 weeks for complete improvement. That is a lot better than 6 months of you and your poor baby "waiting it out" and suffering.

Good luck and let us know how she is.

I have a 10 week old. She was fussy right after bringing her home from the hospital. She would draw her legs up and scream right in the middle of napping like she was in pain. On top of that she was only having a bowel movement once every couple of days. Her peds. told us that she thought she needed to be on Similac Sensitive. We tried that...still no change. Then they thought that maybe she had acid reflux and started her on Enfamil A.R. That made things even worse. After being on that formula for a couple of days she started getting constipated when she did finally have a bowel movement. They told me that they didn't consider it to be constipation until at least 5 days of hard bowel movements. I switched peds. at this point b/c I was tired of them playing a guessing game with my baby. Kirstan's peds. now is wonderful. They told us that she was a little colicky and that all babies have a touch of acid reflux. She is now on Nutramigen and is having regular bowel movements. She still gets a little fussy from time to time, so we give her Colic Calm. It is a homeopathic remedy that we found online. It is all natural and helps with colic and acid reflux. It looks horrible when you give it to her b/c it has charcoal in it, but this stuff calms her down almost immediately. Our peds. said she thinks this stuff is absolutely wonderful. It is about $25 a bottle, but it will last for a good while. If anyone is interested the website is www.coliccalm.com. Good luck to anyone who has a colicky baby! We are very fortunate that Kirstan just has a touch of it and we think is already growing out of it.

My daughter's colicky. On a good day she might scream for only 2 hours, but mostly from 3 pm to 12 pm. Her little eyes look up at me when she screams and I feel like she's crying out for me to make whatever it is stop hurting her and it kills me. I've tried:

1) changing to soy formula-helped for the first two days then stopped.
2)feeding her less formula and burping her frequently- she was pretty unhappy at having her bottle taken she almost always in hungry.
3) letting her swing in her chair with music playing- which stops it for a minute but not once she's really into her cry.
4) Taking a warm bath with her- which works pretty good while the waters running and for a short time after but eventually she'll start again.
5) Gas drops- which again worked like a charm for 4 days and then started making no difference.
6) Dr. Brown's bottles- which caused her to start spitting up constantly. She hardly ever vomited- I MEAN NEVER- and now she's chucking it all the time on herself and everyone else.

please, if there's anything else that's worth a try please PLEASE tell me. I feel like my only choice is to let her cry and try to carry on doing my daily routine without her.

If she's vomitting that much it could be milk/soy intolerance. It could also be acid reflux. Or both. Talk to your Dr. There are tests for both of these conditions. If it's milk/soy intolerance they will switch her formula to Similac Alimentum or Enfamil Nutrimegen. If it's reflux, they will try Zantac, Prilosec, or even rice cereal in her bottles. If you gut is telling you something is wrong, it probably is. Good luck!

SephirasMyHero-

I am pretty certain your daughter has reflux and not colic, doctors are so quick to tell you that your baby has colic, I have a 4 month old baby that did nothing but cry from the second night at the hospital until they finally put her on previcid. They told me she had colic and she would grow out of it but as her mom I knew it was something more, after horrible tests we found out she had a level 4 reflux out of a level 5. They put her on Zantac and it didn't do anything, so they put her on previcid and in 3 days she was a different baby.. she was a good baby, she was still fussy at night, until about 3 months when she could spend more time up-right and now she is the best baby in the world and sleeps for 10 hour stretches at night. I also don't think the bottles made her start throwing up, it takes a while for the spitting up to start, at first they swallow it back down and then they learn how to spit it out, I would tell my doctor you think something else is wrong.