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Colic, Silent Reflux or Tummy Troubles

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Tanya1984 · 05/08/2023 13:04

Firstly how do you know the difference?

We have been giving our DS Infacol for just over a week, however he still seems very "unhappy" with life!

He generally is crying if he's not sleeping or feeding, and the last 2 nights have been hours of constantly crying with no real let up. He can be soothed occasionally by walking round with him held chest to chest and up right but the second you stop moving or lay him down he's crying again.

He hasn't always been like this he was sleeping and waking every 4 hrs in the night for a few nights.

He was BF up to 3.5 weeks then we moved him to formula as it was becoming too much, again he would feed, wind and maybe be ok for 10/15mins and then be crying again so was spending most for his time attached to me.
Formula means he goes 3-4 hours so we know his cries around this time or hunger but in between it's hard to tell and he can give queues same as rooting. He's also gone from BF nappies (poop every one) to a poop every few days and quite smelly flatulence

If we lay him down soon after a feed he gets hiccups (isn't sick)

So as you can see we are showing symptoms and signs of various issues and we are now reaching serious levels of sleep deprivation and feeling anxious Confused

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Crazydoglady0 · 05/08/2023 13:56

How old is your baby?

Tanya1984 · 05/08/2023 18:10

He's 4 week old x

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Crazydoglady0 · 05/08/2023 18:41

Ah OK I wondered if they were older and going through sleep regression as my baby is 4m and going through that at the min but he was a really good sleeper before and its all gone downhill the last couple of weeks! The first few weeks we found the worst with crying non-stop and not sleeping, the first few days in hospital I had to wake him to feed otherwise he'd have slept through and then the first few weeks at home were horrendous. I'm afraid I don't have much advice for you though sorry as we luckily didn't have to deal with colic or anything like that but it does sound like it could be. However my friend had a baby at the same time and formula fed and had to keep changing formulas to find one that didn't cause issues as their baby had colic too. You should be seeing your health visitor soon though if you haven't already so definitely worth asking them and hopefully someone on here will have some advice for you too 🤞 it does get easier though and you will get more sleep - co-sleeping worked for me to get some sleep but obviously that's not something everyone likes the sound of but it might be worth looking into as an option. Good luck, hope you get some answers and sleep soon! X

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Tanya1984 · 05/08/2023 19:17

Yea we had to wake in the hospital I think that is most cases and we've had some nights settled but he's definitely unhappy with something at the moment.

We have tried Infacol for just over a week but now going to try Colief give that some time and then try changing something else

Trial and error but sleep deprivation is brutal x

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