Practical tips for colic

[SleepyCaz]

DD 5 weeks has started sreaming for 2+ hours every night. DS had colic too, but not this intense.
Tried Infacl, Colief, swaddling, you name it.

Any tips?

Sling?

Nothing really made much difference with DS apart from putting him in the sling and then bouncing gently on the birthing ball. Which got a bit tiring after a while...

Hoping it passes quickly for you. It's amazing how long 2 hours can seem with a screaming baby but it will pass.

sleepycaz, same thing here with DS, but he's only 3 wks old. DD had it too, only thing that worked with her was seeing a cranial osteopath. No other advice i'm afraid, just sympathy & possibly cyberspace hand holding while we get through this???
One question for people though (slight hijack, sorry) - when using Colief & breast feeding, does anyone actually follow instructions to the letter - i.e hand expressing tablespoons of milk into a sterile container, mixing with Coleif, then giving it in a sterile teaspoon?? Before each feed? Even at 4am? There must be an easier way, surely???
Anyway sleepycaz, i hope your night not too awful, i wonder if there's some kind os support thread for fellow sufferers???
Good luck xxx

bumping for us both....

Sling helped me a lot.

Also cutting dairy out of your diet if baby is breast fed. Made a huge difference with both of mine.

You have my sympathy, not that that is much help.

you poor things it is horrible. bouncy ball is good, dvds with subtitles are really helpful too, we watched all three lotr accompanied by screaming baby.

osteopath, colief and all that stuff did nothing. i gave ds gripewater once and he stopped breathing with shock!

the other thing to bear in mind is that it doesn't improve suddenly, but very gradually. so do take heart, you are probably already over the worst of it.

i found the only thing that worked was just to settle down on sofa and feed all evening.

Walking the floor with him face down across an arm was all, I'm afraid. Infacol didn't work, and then Tiktok linked on a thread to a study saying it's a placebo, too.

It's awful, but it does pass. That was my mantra.

poor things - its grim.
My DS was exc BF so I changed my diet and cut out anything windy! such as beans, broccoli, cabbage and very acidic such as tomatoes and oranges. That and infacol used absolutely religiously worked a treat for us. Did that til he was 3 months old and then started re introducing foods to my diet and chucked out the infacol.
Good luck

Infacol was useless for my daughter, but cutting out dairy has made a huge difference. I had been eating lots of chocolate and cheese and when I stopped within 2 days she content again.