Colic, any tips and advice gratefully recieved

[misdee]

dd4 is 4 months and suffering terrible colic. it starts about 1pm every afternoon and carries on late into the night. its affecting her daytime naps, leading to her getting overtired and in pain.

fortunatly we seem to have got a hang of the night-time sleeps with the aid of a faboulous hammock (kisses treedeliverly for linkling the site which sells nappies and baby hammocks)

have started on the infacol, and had a couple of resounding burps which took dd4 by surprise lol.

any other tips gratefully recieved.

anyone?

[desperate]

Cranial osteopathy - worked fantastically for ds!

how much shoud, i expect to pay and how do i know the person is good?

Hello again!

I think infacol does help get wind up. What is her poo like? If stinking and foaming think milk intolerance, and go dairy. Thats what I'm trying.

Cranial oesteopath tommorrow. 60 miles away so better be worth it . The chiropractor does an abdominal release which is a massage type thing and results in bottom wind.

Oh, and really working her legs. I push them around like she is on a bike, then squash he knees into her chest. I really work them, and it squeezes wind out.

Our chiro was £30 1st consultation and £19 follow up.

'go dairy free', that should read.

The person I went to charged £25 per treatment, but offered the first one free, and suggested when I first went that there would probably be three treatments - it was right, the frist two helped, but after the last one the colic just stopped. And it had been really bad - ds would start screaming at about 7 and, on a bad night, not stop until 4 or 5am.

Finding one - more difficult - make sure that they have a proper qualification and make sure that they've been practising there for some time.

Just for reassurance - its terribly gentle what they do - it looks as if they are caressing the baby's head with their fingers. I've taken ds at a later date for general congestion - one appointment I managed to carry him upstairs asleep - he only woke up when his treatment was over...!

Colief - it was a miracle cure for us!

Deffo cranial osteopathy, Misdee.

We used it too. I dunno if it helped or not really, and what a pita when bf. urgh.

We used colief too - yes, big pita when bf - it did help with the colic (so we didn't have so many 4and 5am nights) - but it was the cranial osteopathy that actually solved the problem...

poor DD misdee, is it not getting any better? If not I'd think food related as well as colic normally resolves itself around three months.

We had some success with colief, but as td says, it;s a PITA to give when BFing.

why is itn a pain to give when breastfeeding?

she is having a quiet evening, she is eyeing up peters jaffa cakes.

i thought colic wentont til approx 6months

colief definitely works, but you need to express at least 1/2 oz to put the colief into before breast feeding. I express about 3oz every day and put into several bottles so i always have one handy. it is a pain,but so much better than a grizzly baby. hadn't thought about cranial osteopathy though.

another vote for colief. wish i'd discovered it whilst i was b/f instead of thinking that ds was screaming cos he was hungry. only discovered it once he was ff, it worked in one day! i'm sure i'd read that people who were b/f were just mixing a couple of drops on a spoon with expressed milk then b/f as normal.

It was the having to mix it with warm breastmilk before feeding, so although I expressed some to add the drops to and syringe fed that before a feed, it had to be warmed up to body temperature to activate the lactase enzyme...that's what I found fussy. Took the whole convenience/feed and run aspect of BFing and threw it out of the window.

But, we only used it when DS was teeny tiny and I was pretty much glued to the sofa anyway. I imagine it would be more of a faff the older they are.

We also went to a cranial osteopath and although we didn't feel it made a huge difference, we first saw her when he was only a week old, so who knows how bad it would have been without that. We only had several episodes each evening rather than a continuous stream of discomfort, so maybe that was down to the work the CO did?

oh that does sound a faff.

well the infacol seems to having some effect already, so amhoping it carries on working. i did miss the drops before one feed though, so am unsure of how that will affect things.

I just expressed a tiny bit by hand before each feed to put the drops of colief in - the positive benefit (apart from the improvement to the colic) was that he learnt that a spoon meant food so weaning was really straight forward!

I don't have time to write properly now but massaging baby - legs in bicycle motion and then windmill (holding them together circling her body with her lying on her back) got out lots of trapped wind - my baby had terrible colic and so I sympathise with you. There are other baby massage techniques you can use eg circling her stomach clockwise and others, i'm sure google will be able to help. Good luck

We're in the middle of dealing with colic with my dd2 (7 weeks old), and have tried most of the suggestions made here - bicycling legs and tummy massage seems to give some relief when she's really tense and unhappy. I found the cranial osteopath helpful for me, as she listened sympathetically and made a few good suggestions, not sure whether the actual treatment did anything really! She did suggest trying to cut down on cow's milk/butter/cheese, which I was reluctant to do at first but which does genuinely seem to have made a difference. She also suggested drinking camomile or fennel tea to get it into my breast milk, not sure how much of a difference that has made, but I don't mind drinking it. I never found infacol much use with dd1 (who had terribly colic) so I've not really bothered with it this time, but glad to hear it works for some people.

Quite often, wrapping her up tight in a swaddling blanket, putting her on her side and jiggling her with very small movements but quite rapidly seems to calm her down even if she's quite upset. It's the Harvey Karp 'Happiest Baby on the Block' (awful name!) method, if you've ever come across him - someone gave us the DVD, and I've been amazed at how well it seems to works with her, even when she seems to be in agonies of indigestion.

How's it all Misdee?

Hi Misdee - Im not sure where you live so apologies if this is of no help. My DD had terrible colic as a baby and I took her to the OCC in London which offers excellent cranial osteopathy treatment which really helped - treatment is free but if you can they appreciate it if anyone can pay what they can afford to pay to support the charity. They have a clinic in Farringdon and Battersea in London and in Manchester -

www.fpo.org.uk/Secondary/AboutUs/index.html

In small print at the bottom left it has a link to maps - which contains tel numbers. The website has changed since I last remember so you'd probably be better of giving them a call for more info, if this looks like an option for you.

Hi Misdee - Im not sure where you live so apologies if this is of no help. My DD had terrible colic as a baby and I took her to the OCC in London which offers excellent cranial osteopathy treatment which really helped - treatment is free but if you can they appreciate it if anyone can pay what they can afford to pay to support the charity. They have a clinic in Farringdon and Battersea in London and in Manchester -

www.fpo.org.uk/Secondary/AboutUs/index.html

In small print at the bottom left it has a link to maps - which contains tel numbers. The website has changed since I last remember so you'd probably be better of giving them a call for more info, if this looks like an option for you.