Hi all
I wonder if anyone has any experiences they can share.
My DD is 10 weeks old and exclusively breast fed (on demand if that's relevant). She's a very happy, smiley little soul but has suffered on and off from colic since she was about 3 weeks old.
It seemed to get better between weeks around 7 and 9 but this week it has come back with a vengeance. She will be happily sleeping or playing or just laying and suddenly will scream blue murder, tense her whole body, her belly will go hard and after 3-5 minutes will do a big fart, sometimes with a bit of poo too. These farts and the poo smell quite pungent. Not pooey exactly but sort of "off" of that makes sense. Her usual poos don't smell much.
In this last week she has also come up with horrible nappy rash that's inflamed and bleeding. She doesn't have a temperature. I took her to the doctor and she said it's just colic and to treat the nappy rash with Canestan. I am doing, as well as using pampers sensitive, cleaning her bottom with cammomile tea and cotton will and having lots of nappy off time. It's tough to change her every single time she poos as she's one of those BF babies who poos constantly. If I change her after 30mins or 2mins there's poo in there, so I aim for once an hour in the day and if she wakes at night.
As for the colic I have variously tried infacol, dentinox colic drops, gripe water, Colief and given her calpol when she's been clearly in agony (on the GPs recommendation and no more than twice a day of 25ml). None of these do much, apart from the calpol which sends her to sleep which doesn't seem like an ideal solution.
Any miracle cures for this type of colic? Is it even colic? Any ideas/experiences welcome.