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Does it sound like my 4 day old baby has colic??

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mum2phoebs · 28/04/2010 09:25

My DD2 is feeding lots and during the day she is tending to be settled afterwards either just laying awake content or dropping back off to sleep.

But at night once I feed her she won't settle, I end up feeding her on both breasts which takes a good hour. Then trying to settle her is becoming impossible. Last night she finished feeding at 1030pmish then screamed until 3am!! We tried settling her with a comfort toy, a dummy (reluctantly as don't like dummies) but shes just too little to keep the dummy in or snuffle the toy. I put her back on my breast repeatedly hoping it would settle her shich it did for a while but then getting her back into her cot proved impossible.

She was similar the previous night but last night was really bad. We never had this with our DD1 we were spoilt really so this has come as a huge shock to the system!!!

Could this be colic, just I thought she may be a bit too young for that?? We have been and bought some Infacol and will give her that at each feed and see if things improve tonight.

Does anyone else have any suggestions??

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Skegness · 28/04/2010 09:31

Congratulations on your new baby.

I guess she will be suckling lots to establish a good supply as your milk comes in. They have such tinsy tummies at this age and these empty fast so she may be getting hungry even if she is feeding a lot, perhaps. Is she putting on weight ok? She probably just wants to be close to you too. Hope she settles soon.

jemjabella · 18/05/2010 16:05

Sounds like normal behaviour for a newborn - they generally want to be attached to the boob 24 hours a day until your supply is established.

Have you considered co-sleeping at least for the early weeks?

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