To ask for your Colic survival stories to read tonight as I rock and cry

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DD2 4.5weeks has colic, she isn't massively happy when she is ever awake but Screams for about 4 hours a night. She was a section birth but had sepsis at 2.5weeks so we have been back in hospital for 7 days.

Things I have tried - Infacol, Ranitidine, me giving up dairy, lots of winding.

HELP ME. Its hideous and my DH can't cope and actually at the momment can't help as he has singles on his face.

When did your babies colic end? What ended it?

My first child was a dream compared to this. I need guidance and hope.

TIA

Dentinox colic drops worked on my 2 older babies like a dream!
My youngest had it the worse. I was up 6-9 hours through the night winding, feeding, crying with her, pacing all over the house. My sister gave me nelsons homeopathy colic powder. It had an immediate effect.

Its so hard, colic is vile for both baby and mummy. Sorry your LO has it

Thanks guys. so much.

Gripe water.
Tiger hold.
Dummy.
White noise.
Me learning new winding techniques.
Oh man I feel like it's a bad hazy dream the colic.
Honestly it does get better, try not to look at the clock or counting times woken.
Gripe water just half a syringe after feeding. Wiggle on your knee after milk, hold that chin up to direct the flow up. Tiger hold is good when watching TV. Not too much gripe water a little at a time. White noise app on Kindle/phone at bed time. We have a ewen but he keeps dying we on no2 already. Dummy is handy as well. It will pass, one day down is just one day less

Oh you have my complete sympathy
Dd2, we lived in a tiny one bedroom flat, i spent hours walking the streets with her in her pram in all kinds of positions just so she wouldn't wake up dc1 and keep dp up (he had to go to work, I didn't)and so out neighbours weren't disturbed , just walking until the point of sheer exhaustion.
Would come home as gently and as quietly as possible and as soon as I'd set her down she'd be awake screaming in pain again
Was an utterly hellish 3 months.
She has turned out to be a wonderful wonderful young lady, I can hardly believe she ever drove me to the dark thoughts she did 12 years ago!
Take one day at a time. This will get better. She grew out of it gradually at about 5 months or so.

Why - she did have tongue released last week. Not the golden cure i wanted!!!

Our eldest suffered with colic and he was soothed by us holding him whilst bouncing gently on a gym ball. We also used a baby hammock which really helped in settling him.

We used colief and all the usual. It did go by about 11/12weeks (can't remember exactly!)

I would put my son in buggy. Sit in front of eastenders and push it back and forth constantly. It was the one thing that seemed to help him.

Not sure it would work for any other baby. But what’s to lose? I just didn’t feel like going out at 11pm for a walk.

mustard my DD had the front bit of a tongue tie cut by the NHS at 3 weeks old. But they ballsed it up and didn't cut it anywhere near enough, but as far as they were concerned it was treated and therefore couldn't possibly be a problem any longer. I am still seething with anger about this almost two years later.

If you can get to a breastfeeding group in your area that could be worth a go, a small tweak in feeding position can make a nig difference to latch and just maybe could help. Lots of people also swear by cranial osteopathy as some babies get stiff neck/squished head/other things I
Don't really understand due to delivery and this can help loosen them up.

Oh, and baby massage. We put baby naked on towel in front of a gentle warm fan heater and massaged her with olive oil, she absolutely loved it and was only time you could lie her down without her screaming.

Dairy free and gluten free. Only thing that helped.

DC1’s ‘colic’ was horrendous. I thought I was ok with it all, until hours after DC2 was born. It was like PTSD hitting. The MW helped, thankfully. I hadn’t realised how much stress I was still carrying around because of it. At the time it’s happening you just get on with it, because there’s no other option.

Big hugs.

my son had it - but not as bad as some. He'd cry non stop from about 1800 until 2100. We used to put him in his sling and walk - luckily he was born in May 2003 so the weather was great that year.

It stopped suddenly at 13 weeks but then he would cry if he WASN'T in his sling when we were out. He hated the pram until he was about 10 months old. Grrrrr.

Apologies as I’m sure I’m repeating others, I’ve only skipped through and read your posts. It takes about 4 weeks for the dairy to leave your system. If you do think it’s silent reflux then ask for more or different meds. My daughter is 17 months and has cow’s milk protein allergy (still can’t handle milk so on nutramigen prescription formula) and ranitidine and omeperazole for the silent reflux. My daughter would only calm a little when being swung vertically - you could never lay her down! She hated being in a sling until I discovered she didn’t mind outward facing in a carrier (she had a strong neck and I kept a close eye as you’re not meant to do that when they’re so young) so we spent months like that. Cranial osteopathy didn’t work, but does for some. It’s fucking shit. It takes you tucking ages to get anywhere as you have to constantly stop to try and calm a screaming baby. My dd fucking hated the car, pram, anything that wasn’t in someone’s arms or outwards in a carrier. When she could sit up she was a little more content. If you do think she has cmpa or silent reflux keep hassling the gp until they listen - I wish I’d been more forceful early on.

With us it ended dead on 12 weeks, in a flash it stopped never to return

Same with us, but before that I had days where I just wanted to leave and never return. The time I spent with DS over the shoulder and bobbing him up and down or walking up and down stairs until I thought my legs would collapse under me. It was relentless and awful. But it won't last forever

Oh you have my sympathies OP! DD1 cried from the start, I tried all the above, colic drops, cranial osteopathy, swaddle, rocking blah blah... nothing really worked. She had silent reflux which was only picked up when she started refusing feeds at 3 months. She went on gaviscon which worked for a little while and then just stopped working so was put on Zantac twice a day. This helped but didn't cure her completely - only time really made a difference. She's now 14 months and we're slowly weaning her off the meds as we've tried a couple of times previously but the reflux flared again. The first six months of her life were misery for me but she started to become a loveable little thing from there on out so hang in there. I'm 37 weeks pregnant with #2 and praying this baby is easier!

A swinging chair that could sit upright with newborn inserts that played white noise it saved my sanity with dd2 and probably my marriage. We got it when dad was 3 months old and I cried that we hadn’t got one sooner. It didn’t always work but it certainly helped and often gave me the 20 mins time out I needed to cope with the constant screaming. She’s 18months now and stopped all ranitidine etc when we started weening at 6 months. She is now an absolute delight and such a different baby. DH and I often wonder how we survived her 1st 6months. Hang in there OP it will get better and these days will be a distant memory.

Was terrible. A bit better by week 8. Much much better by 12 weeks.

Now an adorable and delightful 2 yet old who sometimes even sleeps through the night and rarely ever cries.

it’s a hard time xx

Child 1 an hour walking in or out of the house (summer baby) with a sling would turn screaming into grizling, it eased off after a month or so. Child 2 walking around house and garden with a sling would result in the screaming gradually calming. Child 3 not remotely comforted by being walked in a sling but would be quieter by using tiger in a tree hold (baby draped over forearm on tummy limbs hanging down) and bouncy rocked.

It ended at about 8 weeks I think. Just suddenly got better

Totally feel your pain both of mine suffered terribly with colic and reflux.

We tried all of these: Gaviscon, Infacol, Dr Browns bottles, pausing during feeding, winding halfway through feeding, leg exercises (bicycle legs) and gripe water.

The two things out of the above that vaguely helped were Dr Browns bottles and leg exercises! But tbh, as soon as we got to 12 weeks we saw a massive improvement!

Our eldest had reflux, so I sympathise. I spent many an evening/night/early morning/all the live long feckin' day pacing the house crying whilst he screamed in my arms. Horrible, horrible times. How we had the energy or time to go on to have two more I don't know! He was a different child by 5/6 months, when he could finally sit up a bit better, and wiggle himself in comfier positions. He weaned a bit early too (just as he hit 5 months) on the recommendation of a paediatric specialist we saw at the hospital, which did help. He's now a strapping 13 year old who eats like a horse and loves his sleep ... from barely surviving on an hour or so at a time, the boy has to be forcibly peeled out of bed now 😃Good luck op, this too shall pass, promise.

Totally feel for you, OP. We had the nightly reflux/colicky crying for a few weeks and eventually it passed. I remember furiously googling to find out WHAT THE FUCK I COULD DO TO STOP THE CRYING!!! We tried everything and it all worked once or twice but never the same thing 2 nights in a row so we just kept on until he went to sleep. He’s 2 now and it’s a distant, distant memory. Just take it night by night, read the food advice on here and it will be over all.

Try not to panic. There is a light to the end of the tunnel. Colic never lasts forever.
You should expect it to improve in a couple of months.

Try a dummy. I wish I had tried a dummy when mine had colic. Now it's the best way to sooth him keep him quiet particularly if we are going out for dinner.

Coleif is supposed to be brilliant, but it is v expensive.

I so sympathise, my dd 10.5 years, had awful colic. She woukd cry from 9am to 9pm every day. It was relentless. I was so down, she eventually grew out of it. At one point, I put her in our room in a vibrating baby bouncer as that is the only thing that helped.

I feel your pain OP. DS is 7 weeks and ‘a bit refluxy, a bit colicky’, he’s not screaming constantly for hours but early evening the ‘rolling crying’ starts, and lasts til about 9pm. It’s not constant to technically isn’t colic but is frustrating and exhausting. I think it’s reflux. Infacol helps. As does a bed time routine we’ve started this week - he stops crying for a bath & feed so at least I get some resbite. Could therefore a distraction technique work?

There’s a charity - Cry-sis who offer advice too. Good luck.

Oh god it’s HIDEOUS. You’re not alone! The best thing I found with my daughter, along with lots of Infacol, was to put her in a snugly tied wrap (like a Solly wrap, or similar) in the evening during the witching hours. The closeness and my body heat really helped calm her, and meant I could bounce her around whilst keeping my hands free. It felt strangely less stressful not having to physically hold her whilst she screamed, having my hands free to make a cup of tea or whatever whilst she screeched just seemed to help distract from the awfulness!! It helped loads, can’t recommend highly enough.

It’ll be over before you know it, I promise.

Goats milk formula sorted it for me, never looked back