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HEEELLLP! If I go to A&E will they do anything

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treedelivery · 11/04/2009 23:43

I have help and support so don't warry about me but

OMG!! My dd2 is 11 weeks and has screamed for hours today. This last hour it is like some one is taking a hot poker to her - these are screams of pure agony and panic.

She has fucking colic 'it's only colic she'll grow out of it' - if she were an adult she would be given morphine.

This is too much - has anyone just gone to them and said 'help her' even if it is just a few hours of rest from the screaming?

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lisalisa · 11/04/2009 23:45

Oh sorry to hear this tree. how do you know its colic?

AitchTwoOh · 11/04/2009 23:45

oh dear, you poor things. you're sure it's 'just' colic and your maternal spider senses aren't tingling that it might be something else?

lisad123 · 11/04/2009 23:45

if you are sure its coliec, i doubt they would do much. Have you someone to call to take over for a bit? Could you put her down in her cot and go and stand in the garden? Its pure angony i know, hope your ok.

thumbbunny · 11/04/2009 23:45

oh tree lovey - how awful for you! I don't know if they'll do anythign for her, obviously they won't give her morphine, but they might give her paracetamol to reduce the pain from the colic.

What have you tried? Have you massaged her little tummy in the colon-flow direction? (clockwise from LR to LL)
Fennel tea? cooled of course

noavailablename · 11/04/2009 23:48

Are you sure it is just colic? If she has been screaming all day and seems to be in severe pain, I would go and get her examined just to make sure TBH.

thumbbunny · 11/04/2009 23:50

I think I would too...

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treedelivery · 11/04/2009 23:50

done fennel, done boob, done water, did abdominal release but now she goes ballistic if i touch her tum,

I could give her calpol i guess - the immunisation dose.

i believe it is wind, nothing sinister.

Oh God help my baby. It's like she's being murdered!

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AitchTwoOh · 11/04/2009 23:51

i must say i would too, noname. my doc told me not to piss about wondering whether to take a baby under a year to see someone, that if my gut instinct was that something was wrong, just to get to a hospital.

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treedelivery · 11/04/2009 23:51

also given hoeopathic remedy and am eyeing up the jamesons. for both of us.

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AitchTwoOh · 11/04/2009 23:52

what is she like being bathed? in a bucket if you have one.

everGreensleeves · 11/04/2009 23:52

I can feel the pain and anguish coming through in your post

if I were in the state you are in, I would go to A&E - you're her mummy, trust your own instincts. It can't be worse than sitting suffering with her.

Good luck xx

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treedelivery · 11/04/2009 23:53

Aitch - I daredn't. I daredn't do anything in case it hurts you know?
Having total shed collapse as she's really moved up a rung in the screams.
Jesus.

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thumbbunny · 11/04/2009 23:55

Just take her tree, really. IME they are very good and understanding even if it is only something minor. Just go. NOW!

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treedelivery · 11/04/2009 23:56

ok. will let you know when i can

thanks people.

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thumbbunny · 11/04/2009 23:57

hope she is ok.

AitchTwoOh · 11/04/2009 23:57

oh tree, i'm with greeny and the rest, i'd say to go to hospital if you can. just to let them sympathise with you if nothing else, but also to have a feel of her tummy for blockages etc.

(i mentioned the bucket because we have one of those tummy tubs that are recommended for colic because the baby is sitting up and a bit squashed so it makes them fart. at least it does dd2...)

SuziSeis · 12/04/2009 00:01

ime she needs to sleep

i would drive her around for an hour or so ( sorry) to take the edge off her tiredness

then bring home

boob

wrap

bed

only my experience mind but i have had a few babies x

ScottishThistle · 12/04/2009 00:08

Have you tried carrying her along your arm tummy down so she's looking at the floor?

I know it's awful, been there with two of my tiny charges with colic/reflux.

TheLadyEvenstar · 12/04/2009 00:25

Tree Hope you get on ok at the hospital i found them very helpful with Zachary when he had colic

everGreensleeves · 12/04/2009 00:31

I don't think there's a right or a wrong thing to do tree - you've just got to get though it one way or another - but we are all here feeling your pain and sympathising xx

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treedelivery · 12/04/2009 00:41

I'm back - She's asleep.

Urghhhh. I feel 90. I got as far as pulling jeans on one handed whilst holding her - and she gulped, yelped, gagged and sagged.
That was it, switch flicked, a look at me through swollen red eyes, her face went pale and she fel into a deep comfortable sleep.

Oh I'm glad that wave is over. My worst night as a mother in 4.5 years for sure, even hospital admissions with dd1 for temps were not like this.

Her belly keeps growling so I'm going to watch over her for any dodgy symptoms. If I don't like look of anything I'll take her in.

Listen people - thank you. I nearly lost it there! Thank you for talking me through my thoughts.

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luvaduck · 12/04/2009 00:42

I have worked in paeds a+e as a doc and have seen many a baby brought in with colic at midnight. We ALWAYS examined them and assessed. Sometimes it is colic, and I felt soooo sorry for the parents (I did paeds before having ds so didn't really understand!). Sometimes however it is something else eg reflux and medicine can help.

it won't do any harm to take her

good luck
it must be awful

thumbbunny · 12/04/2009 00:59

tree - I am glad she's asleep now, hope it lasts.

For future - see this website and this one for the footchart. Reflexology is a great way to work on the gut without having to touch your DD's tum at all. FWIW - I have a friend who recently had dreadful bloating and stomach pain and was worried it might be serious (she had had previous Women's problems) and after her scan and ultrasound was told she had Trapped Wind. 1 minute of reflexology on her colon reflex on both feet and she wanted to fart massively (and did, having warned me first) and she kept doing so for the rest of the day. She felt much better!

For your DD - go gently on it. I would start on the left foot and do that one first to clear the way - then go back and do the right foot and do the left foot again. She might whinge and snatch her foot away - gently persist, it will help. If you find a point that really makes her scream, consider taking her to A&E anyway to check she hasn't got a torsion in there!(highly unlikely)

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treedelivery · 12/04/2009 01:01

Still sleeping. Sucking on dumm like a mad woman but asleep. She so needs rest.

Luvaduck - it's good to hear I wouldn't be the first, and from you TLE. Big waves to you!

Thanks Thumb, Aitch and all of you. Am a bit more myself now - looking at her like a health proff. and deciding her mother is over anxious.

Those screams though......they were something else.

think I'll just sit here for a few hours and let her rest. I won't risk lying her down.

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tigerdroveoverthebunnies · 12/04/2009 01:04

have you thought about craniosacral massage? Might be worthing looking into.

What a mis evening for you and her, and worse for you, as she will be oblivious.

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