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help needed for crying baby

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hercules · 13/04/2004 19:56

My mum is really worried as my brothers baby is 9 weeks old and is crying 80% of the time. He is formual fed and we have lots of allergies in the family. They have tried to do the cranial osteopathy thing but the waiting list is 3 weeks long. They have a crap gp and hv and my mum is very worried. They've also tried sling, car journeys etc but to no avail. Poos are fine.

tia

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Flip · 13/04/2004 19:58

Could be lactose intolerance. Babies can't break it down and generate lots of wind. It's very painful a friend of mine went for six weeks with her baby screaming pretty much none stop. It's worth a try and won't do any harm. I've been using SMA LF and you can get it on prescription but if they want something straight away you can usually buy it over the counter at pharmacy's but it's expensive. About £5 for a 470 gram tin.

HTH

Heathcliffscathy · 13/04/2004 19:59

what was the birth like? could this be linked to birth trauma. any chance of paying to see cranial osteopath sooner?...really think this could help a lot. v sorry for your brother, is awful when baby cries that much...sounds like baby is in discomfort if even sling etc doesn't work...

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hercules · 13/04/2004 20:09

CAnt see co any sooner I'm afraid. What do you think about changing formula. on sma at the moment?

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Flip · 13/04/2004 20:11

Herc it can't do any harm. SMA LF is the same as Gold apart from it's minus the lactose. I would give it a try. You've got nothing to lose. Any decent pharmacy would hold it in stock and it's better for you than wysoy because wysoy has had contraversial reviews recently.

littlemissbossy · 13/04/2004 20:33

My ds was bottle fed and from 2 weeks old, screamed the house down morning, noon and night. I too did everything to try and settle him, changed formula (over and over again), went out for walks, driving round the block, etc. His poos varied from normal to runny yellow and foul smelling (!), sorry for detail, but i would say from your nephews poo, he doesn't an intolerance to the formula that he's having. Ask them how he is feeding. Does he start screaming after a feed/hard to settle immediately after a feed? Does he pull his legs up to his tummy, as if he is in pain? If yes, I would say he probably has colic so he is very windy! This is obviously painful for him and distressing for them, you can get things for colic such as infacol from the chemist to give to him before a feed. I used to give this to my ds and changed his formula (had been giving him cow&gate), as recommended by our GP, to SMA soya based formula which was available on prescription, so was free. This did settle him a little and he outgrew the colic, as most babies do, by 3 months. HTH

Flip · 13/04/2004 20:41

My friends baby didn't have runny poos but she does have a lactose intolerance. My baby had very runny poos and was doing a dozen dirty nappies a day and he had a lactose intolerance. It shows itself in different ways. I would definitley try changing the formula. You have nothing to lose and only peace to gain. It's very distressing when a child cries none stop. Is this your SIL first child?

Monkeysmum · 14/04/2004 20:00

Has your brother tried a baby soother tape, I found that with DS1's constant screaming particularly at night it was the only way we got any peace, it's basically white noise a bit like what they would hear in the womb. My Ds had to have it on at a certain volume to get any effect but it might be worth experimenting. We also tried co which seemed to work a bit. Hope it helps

teeschmee · 14/04/2004 21:14

My son is now a bubbly 2 and a half but cried loads from the second he was born until he was able to crawl! He was diagnosed with reflux and prescribed Gaviscon which did help a bit - may be worth mentioning to a GP. I also believed that he was lactose intolerant and gave him Infasoy formula - this also made some difference. We tried cranial osteopathy and, for the huge sums of cash that we spent, I really don't think it made much difference. The main difference came when I decided to accept that he was going to cry a lot, no matter what we tried, and we established very firm routines and stuck to them - there were always hundreds of possible explanations for what could be wrong with him at any given time: teething, wind, over-stimulation, boredom, tiredness etc etc, but as long as we'd stuck to the routine and checked out any physical possibilities, (temperatures etc) then I just accepted that some babies just do cry a lot for whatever reason - and he did grow out of it (but pretty tough on everyone at the time). Good luck to your brother.

Evita · 14/04/2004 21:24

Why not try him on one of the soya formulas instead? They're not a lot more expensive. You can also get allergy skin prick tests done, we did with dd, though they're not 100% accurate they usually show if there's an allergic reaction.

There may be nothing like this going on though, maybe he's finding it hard to be in his body. I know that sounds weird but it's what a GP friend of mine told me, some babies are just traumatised after birth and feel strange in their bodies. Is it possible for them to carry him round in a sling, v. snuggled up to a body so he feels warm and held close?

maisystar · 14/04/2004 21:24

flip, hi just wondered what the controversy was regarding wysoy? my nephew has it cos is lactose intolerance

suedonim · 14/04/2004 23:47

Maisystar, here's a bit explaining about the possible concern with soya formula

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