What's it like when colic stops?

[AnxiousBear]

Does it happen overnight? Over a few weeks? What's it like?

My 13 week old (9/10 weeks adjusted) has colic, cries for 5 hours every evening. Have given up dairy, seen an osteopath, lactation consultant, GP, tried every wind and reflux medication... Reflux much better since giving up dairy but still the crying continues.

I just want to know what is it actually like when it stops? How fast does it happen? How do you know it's over? What do you do with your evenings when your baby isn't crying constantly.

Thanks in advance!

It’s bloody bliss for both parents and baby!

Seriously though I thought my older two had colic er no it was just wind. Dc 3 had COLIC. Totally sympathise with you. When it stopped it meant I was no longer walking round with a baby in a carrier trying to do tea/ bath/ house stuff. Interestingly the dc with colic was also gluten intolerant until about 5 but the others were not.

Happened over the period of a couple of weeks for us between maybe…11 and 14 weeks? He used to scream bang on 17:00 for an indeterminate amount of time - could be an hour, could be 6. Firstly the cluster feeding stopped, then the screaming reduced to a few minutes after getting out of the bath (so we ditched it).

I have to say, it was replaced by a period of big time fussiness, so it was a bit of ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire’…but overall life did get much easier when the colic stopped and it got easier again at about 6 months, when the fussy-ness died down.

God I don’t even remember you know, I must have repressed it. I think it just got shorter and shorter over time until suddenly I realised it had been a while since it had been happening. It’s BLISS. The best thing I found for it at the time was just to accept it. We took turns holding baby in a sling and swaying in the dark to white noise. I’d read my kindle while rocking her. The other one got a few hours to watch some telly or have a bath. It’s horrible and feels like it will never end, but it will. I promise. We’re at 11 months now and evenings are pretty lovely. We all eat together then it’s play time, bath, stories and bed. Still occasionally a few tears at bedtime but just tiredness and literal minutes. Seconds even. I can’t believe how far we’ve come now looking back. I thought I’d never eat a meal in peace or enjoy life ever again. I can’t remember when it completely passed for us but probably around 12 weeks it had drastically improved if not completely vanished. I hope it’s over soon for you. Hang in there x

My DD had it from around 10 weeks until maybe 12/13 weeks. We would get to 6pm and she would cry nonstop until 10 or 11pm. I fully sympathise with you OP honestly, it is torture.

It stopped for us pretty much overnight or at least over a couple of nights after I spoke to the HV and we made a few adjustments. She would still cry and get uncomfortable but it was more manageable and she started sleeping more after that.