Colic support thread

[RememberingMyPFEs]

My 3week old has started with classic colic symptoms and I'm freaked out and scared about the next 9-12 weeks. She's clearly in a lot of pain, screaming inconsolably, fussing at feeds, not suckling like she did, scrunching up, arching her back and grunting loads. Its got steadily worse over the past 3 days. It is utterly heartbreaking and I feel like such a failure cos I can't make it better. I'm trying to go down the Attachment Parenting route and wonder how she can trust me when she is in so much pain and I can't help :-(

She's screamed since 7pm last night, quietened briefly twice and I managed to get infacol and a feed in both times. 9 hours later and I have no idea what to do or how I'll do this for weeks. I'm cutting out dairy as of now and will be checking out the massage options.

Anyway, I figured I can't be the only one struggling and found this thread. Rather than re-awaken a zombie thread I thought I'd start a new one but wanted to link this as there is some good advice I think.

So who else put there is struggling? Who's come out the other side? What hope is there that it'll be cured in 2 days with infacol? (I can dream, right?)

Please come and cheer me up or at least keep me company...

As a mum of two world champ refluxers I'm going to totally contradict the last poster, for your sanity thoroughly ditch dairy and soya for three to six weeks as a first resort not the last. It needs to be that long to leave your systems and its best to eliminate both as the proteins are similar enough to trigger the same immune response, and you need to read every label and be thorough. Cmpi is believed to be responsible for 80% of colic/reflux cases, cows milk is the most common food allergy in babies by a country mile. And given most grown mammals, like cows for example, don't need to drink another species breast milk in order to bf you'll be just grand so long as you supplement for calcium and vitamin d. I went Df and sf for two years because while I fleetingly missed milk chocolate I bliddy loved sleep and happy screamless babies.

My son suffers with colic as soon as he hit 3 months I put grip water in his feds, sat him up in a swing chair forr half hour as I suffer with limp arms and he brings the colic or wind up. Its such a draining experience and time. I do the ocky pokey dance with his legs when he's led on the floor to make it fun and move around any wind also. I hope this helps xx