crying baby

[ButterPie]

poor 7 week old DD2 would seem to have colic. Screaming and nothing seems to help her. Any tips?

Oh, poor baby, and poor you What have you tried so far? Will just give a few suggestions that come into my head.

Hold her upright for at least half an hour after feeds. Walk up and down stairs (or mimic this motion by raising yourself onto tiptoes and dropping down)
Infacol
Gripe water
Anti colic bottles if FF/fennel tea for BF mums
Baby massage (there is a special one for the tummy which is supposed to help with colic)
Tiger in the Tree baby yoga position, and swinging from side to side, and SSSSSHHHHHHing.

This too shall pass!

Thanks, I will come back to this thread when she starts up again, probably tomorrow night just as I want to go to bed. I finally persuaded her to have a feed and she has just fallen asleep snuggled into my boob so I am off to bed. We are at my mums and co-sleeping in a room shared with DP and DD1 so couldn't go upstairs while she was crying.

This passes, doesn't it? Don't remember with DD1 as I was ill with PNP.

Yes it does pass. It's lovely when they fall asleep all snuggled up I coslept with DS from when he was tiny and he used to use my boob as a pillow when he had finished.

I have found a link on google which suggests baby massage not when they are crying (as their tummy is too hard) but as a preventative, e.g. during nappy changes. here if you want to try it

A friend of mine had good results with the fennel tea, if you can stomach it.

This probably doesn't help much, but when I accepted that dd would cry sometimes and I just had to go with it, be there for her, comfort her, but that she might still cry, I found it less stressful.

It is so hard, I have been there quite recently - but you will come out the other side and when you have a happy, calm baby in just a few weeks, it will be all the lovelier.

Good luck, I'm sure you're doing an amazing job

How are you feeding? DS was primarily breast-fed and topped up with formula on Dr's orders. He had colic. AS soon as I started expressing the BM and feeding both milks in bottles with DS sat as upright as possible, things got a LOT better.

I might try concentrating on what position I feed her in, at the mo I tend to just shove her on however happens to be comfortable at the time, which probably isn't the best thing to do.

I was walking round my parents house at 5am this morning as she was screaming again, and we have been travelling home all day today. SO tired. Very early night tonight I feel.

Poor child, she seems so distressed when she cries.

My ds had colic and has now mostly grown out of it (although we do still get the odd screamy day).

My HV got someone to show me colic massage, which helped loads, as did his tummy tub bath. My ds had colic exactly the same when he was breastfed and when he was ff, it makes no difference. ]

I found the hairdryer worked wonders- put the noisy end towards his ear (not too close!) and he stops- it was like a drug! Some babies like hoovers too.