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my 35week old ds still has colic! help!!

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 20:32

hey, my 35 week old ds still has colic. i posted on here before asking why my ds keeps screaming from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep (no joke) but lately hes been passing wind while eating so now im guessing its colic? because hes suffering from painful wind he screams when we feed him, this sometimes makes him choke. we try to calm him down but nothing works, we try a rattle, cuddle etc

hes nearly 8months old so how can he still have colic? i read i think only 5% of babies have colic after 6months! should i go to the docs about it?

hes been suffering from it since about 1month old and its getting me down now.
any advice?

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thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 20:34

how is he fed? could it be an intolerance to something? dairy?

Tras · 13/09/2010 20:39

Really agree with thisisyesterday, it sounds like he has an intolerance as opposed to colic.

When my little girl was born she screamed constantly and we thought it was colic. However it was all day long as opposed to just in the evenings. (my HV said colic is an evening thing.) Anyway, long story short, I swapped her from breast milk to lactose free milk and she settled within 24 hrs. She still had difficulties as she had reflux but thats another issue.

Dont know how you have lasted this long before getting down. After the first 8wks with my DD I was ready for the hills! Big hugs(((()))
P.s def go and see your doctor!

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 20:39

we dont give him much dairy, like once a week if that. i dont think its an intolerance to anything, because it isnt with any particular food. im guessing its colic because he has painful wind and kicking his legs

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thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 20:41

yes but if it was too dairy it would be caused by his milk, or the milk in your diet if he was/is breastfed

thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 20:41

my second has a cows milk protein intolerance and was the same. he screamed all day every day.
cut it out of my diet and he was like a changed boy

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 20:43

Tras he was ok from about 4months old until about 2weeks ago, now hes got it back again, we gave him Dentinox and he settled down, it seems to have worked, we stopped giving it him about 4months and its been ok since now.

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ib · 13/09/2010 20:45

Yes, it does sound like an intolerance - is he ff or bf?

ib · 13/09/2010 20:46

If he's been OK for the past 4 months and is suddenly worse could it be teething?

thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 20:52

hi again michelle, i looked up your other posts to see if i could get any other clues as to why he might be crying so much

hmmm

you said in your other post that he has been like it for the last 6 months or so? but on here you say he has been ok since 4 months and bad again the last cople of weeks

i may be getting wires crossed, so apologies if i've misunderstood

from your other posts you sound like you're quite stressed out... is it possible he is picking up on this and getting stressed himself?

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 20:53

im not sure, do you think i should put him on Dentinox again and see how he is after a few days? he has 4teeth so i no hes teething but that wouldnt cause painful wind :S he is bottle fed but seeing as though its been ok for 4months i dont think hes intolerant to anything. we've not changed anything either

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thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 20:57

michelle your other posts don't back up what you are saying at all. i found one about him when he was 6 months old saying he cried all the time too :(

i honestly, honestly think this could be a dairy thing. you need to take him to the doctor and see what they say

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 21:00

thisisyesterday he kept screaming all day until we gave him dentinox, he was fine while he was on it, he still cried but not as much as before (i could cope with it) then we stopped giving it him and he was fine up until about 2-4weeks ago, he still cried just not as bad, now hes getting worse again me and dp are getting stressed :(

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thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 21:04

ok, i get it now.
if it were me i would call the GP in the morning and ask for a same-day appt.
do you have a nice GP at your surgery? at mine i've always found the women ones to be nicest, perhaps cos most of them are mums themselves... i dunno

anyway, i digress... make an appt and explain everything you've said here. that while he was on the dentinox he seemed better, but still cried a lot. and that you're finding it hard

some babies do cry a lot. but i think the vast majority of the time there is a reason for it. i think it's highly unlikely it's colic tbh

they might consider prescribing a hypoallergenic formula just to rule out any allergies/intolerances.

mum2oneloudbaby · 13/09/2010 21:07

michelle - take him to the gp and do not be fobbed off. Don't try to tackle it on your own.

thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 21:09

michelle, do you have much support around you? i saw you mentioned mum and dad in another thread, but have you got friends with babies? go to any mother/toddler groups etc etc?

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michelle89 · 13/09/2010 21:17

we gave him some infacol that we had in about 2hours ago because he kept screaming, it seems to have calmed him down alot, hes passing alot of wind at the moment but hes not crying when he does now, he seems a little happier.

me and DP have discussed it and we have decided to give him infacol until dp can get dentinox, keep him on it for a couple of days, if hes no better then ask for the same day appointment.

me and dp have no support around us, we've both lost friends (which was what my last post was about, because with having no friends and we dont get on well with family we dont get a break at all) from my last post, we have decided to go to sure start to see what groups are running :)

i hope we can find out why hes screaming all the time because as you can probably tell it is stressing me quite alot, my dp's sister annoyed me earlier she said "iv done it on my own and it wasnt that hard really" im sure her child didnt scream like my ds does! i just want a happy baby :)

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thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 21:27

yep a screaming baby is very, very hard work

i think though that even if infacol or dentinox work you still do need to se the GP to find out what is causing the discomfort.
you shouldn't need to be buying dentinox for him at this age...

what's his day like in general? how much milk does he have? what solids does he eat?
does he nap ok?

thisisyesterday · 13/09/2010 21:29

regarding intolerances again (sorry to keep going on)- one of ds2's symptoms was explosive wind/poo.
if your son does have a mild intolerance that could explain the wind, and m,aybe the dentinox helped that for a while?
also we found that he would be ok with very small amounts of dairy, but after a while it would begin to build up in his system and cause symptoms to reappear again

dizzygirl · 13/09/2010 21:30

I don't know how your coping. We had a problem with our DS from when he was about 6 months, he didn't really cry during the day just at night, I ended up sleeping with him every night just to get some rest. Just before his first birthday he had blood in his poo, I took him to doctors straight away, he was severely constipated. They gave me a lactose prescription and he was sleeping though the night within days of the medication. I still feel guilty for not doing anything sooner (he's now nearly 4), so please go and see the doctor and suggest all that's been mentioned here. Something's not quite right, for your own sanity! Good luck. :)

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