2 week old baby with colic help

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3 week old baby with awful colic , breast fed and feeding well, (non stop)
even tho im full of mastitis and thrush. is there anything i can do to help him

thanks a lot

What do you mean by colic exactly?

E.g. lots of hysterical crying is often called colic but is actually due to overtiredness (a common issue in small babies)?

Or if you are having problems feeding due to mastitis and thrush, then maybe hunger? (also usually the answer to most problems!) If feeding literally non stop then maybe the latch could be better so could be more efficient?

Have you found anything that seems to work? eg a sling?

My son started colic at 3 days old... () which was really obvious - a different cry from his normal cry, not being able to settle, rooting but pulling away and thrashing his head side to side - worst days he would start at 7pm and stop at 4 or 5am and all we could do was hold him - with the odd 5mins off very occasionally.

Colief helped - although its a faff if you are bf, it is better than the horrendous colic. However, cranial osteopathy cured it - after 3rd treatment it just stopped, with no gradual reduction.

I hope you get it sorted soon.

Oh poor you. DD had colic from 10 days old too.

Things that worked for us:

Carrying her in a baby bjorn sling so she could remain upright.
Giving her a dummy (I was absolutely against them to start with, but they saved our sanity for about 3 months!)
Cranial osteopathy
"Tiger in the tree" hold (google it for pictures).

As soon as she was old enough, gripe water was BRILLIANT!

cheers, he loves the sling, you are right lukewarm he is a bit tired, latch has been checked and is fine tho i am sceptical of hv/mws, just finishing 2nd course of abs and feeling much better, he s putting on good wr, born 8,5 went to 7 11 was 8 8 last week.
mistle , yes just like tat yoi can hear his ttummy bubbling.... am using diclthinggy but i hate to hear him in pain- wondered if theres something i am eating that i shouldnt iyswim
thanks for all your responses up to now
xx

Sorry, just re-read my post - I didn't mean to sound like I didn't think colic existed. I just wondered if there could be any other reason, as its easier to sort out tiredness/hunger than the very unspecific and hellish colic.

FWIW my DD2 had what I thought was colic from about 2 weeks - got increasingly unsettled over the next few weeks, and then I gave up dairy in my diet (DD1 is allergic to dairy so gave me a clue), and the next day she was better, and the day after that, back to normal (well, normalish).

We found a dummy and infacol quite helpful for DD1 (until she got to about 3 months and could suck her thumb which she infinitely preferred).

lukwarm - i didnt read it that way HONEST
he can be weary i would be with tummy ache i think i know its colic cos of the gurgling tummy and he is very farty and his whinging does settle....
milk reduction is a good tip ta.

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hotbot - all babies' tummies gurgle, and all adults' tummies gurgle, too. Gurgling is really not a sign of anything except a stomach in full working order You are aware of your baby's gurgling because you are listening for it and because there is not much fat over his tum so the noise he makes is louder.

If he is happy most of the time as long as he is close to you, on or near the breast, eg in a sling, then he is prob fine and just wants to indicate to you he needs to be near.

What do you think?

tik tok you are poss right, he is a mummys boy , and why not i am lovely (as always) but he really does draw his little legs up and squeaks really horribly - would changing my diet help - am very heathy atm? but maybe something is upsetting him?

We used homeopathic drops which were brilliant - didn't realise how brilliant until the day we ran out!

hotbot, not everyone will agree with me because the notion of babies bringing up their legs and crying is so entrenched as a sign of colic....but this is how babies cry. It's no more a sign of wind in the stomach than anything else. IMO.

If your baby cries when he is put down in his cot, or if he cries in order to be cuddled, soothed, and fed, and he is comforted when kept close and/or fed, then it isn't colic (IMO). It is normal baby behaviour. Even if it happens a lot.

My ds decided that he really wanted to be held at all times and not put down. He would also do the normal crying when hungry etc. However, all of these cries were in the same sort of voice - and if I worked out what was 'wrong' (nappy, milk, being picked up etc) he stopped (even if it took a short-while).

His colic cry was completely different - a different tone, and he was just beside himself and absolutely nothing would help until the colic subsided. For him, the key signs apart from the crying were the rooting but refusing to latch, and head shaking.

I'm not disagreeing with Tiktok (wouldn't dare ) - if he is just crying becuase its normal behaviour, finding things that you can do (like sling) that will keep him happier will definitely help. However, if it is colic, you have my sympathies, having been through it. I said at the time, if I ever have another child they will be going to the cranial osteopath straight away to try to avoid having the same degree of problems that ds had.

mistlethrush - that's what I mean. If he continues to cry, and nothing works to comfort him, then it is a different matter.

DDstarted to struggl with wind at around two weeks old. We gave her Infacol and it really helped her. We gave it to her for around three weeks and after that she was a champion burping and farting which it was what she needed.

As tiktok said try all e possible options and if you see that it does not improve talk to GP and you may want to try Infacol.

I also found that some food was upsetting her. I had to stop eating Brocolly, Hummus and any products containing soya. Some of my friends couldn't eat garlic, mushrooms or cabagge because it was upsetting their babies.

Hope it gets better soon for you

sorry to post and disappear, thakns to all for your your help,
tik tok may be onto something he def only wants to be with me and its very interesting that the leg drawing up is not just for colic, it may well be that its his way of getting me back?
i was convinced it was colic as even tho i have him he was still terying to feed thru the wind iyswim and was farting and buring thru this

but know it will work itself out
thanks to all for your kind wprds and ideas i just hate the thought of him being in pain if i can avoid it

xx

sorry dont know what happened to my typing.
ps he isnt always comforted by me.. which is why i surmised colic.. dd a;so ahd horrendous colic but she was ff (as i was too ill and didnt produce any milk)