Colief and other Wind/colic remedies

[BionicB]

Have taken advice from other threads from 04 and 07.
Newborn DD of 18 days has huge pain from wind every afternoon and evening
Tried infacol for about 10 days now, but not sure it is helping.
How long does Colief take to work and has anyone who is BF found it works or is it better with bottles?
Any miracle cures??

My YS had awful colic issues. We tried various things in various ways ... what worked for us was Infacol before the feed and gripewater after the feed and him not guzzling but having a wind-him break every 5 - 6 mins (oh he hated that). But it took us several months to get there..

Infacol is not to be used sparingly - I think the more it is used then it builds up and is helps/prevent the wind/colic.

Just keep on saying that it doesn't last for ever... doesn't last forever.

Sometimes a bath in those hours of severe colic can help baby.

I tried Colief whilst breast feeding and then when my milk stopped and it was formula for him.. But it wasn't for him.... Though it worked for a mate of mine. It really is an individual thing.

It wasn't until my YS was weaning it stopped but he is one of those kids who seems to delight in being utterly wonderful but hard work.

We used infacol for 1st 10 weeks, by the time we started using colief his colic was calming down anyway. We breast fed and found infacol helped initially but got to a limit when it stopped improving. Colief is a bit of a pain when BF, I pumped small amounts to put the drops in and gave it to him in a bottle pre-feed - got him used to taking a bottle easily though.

Do anything to preserve your sanity...sadly there isn't a miracle cure, just them growing up a little and their digestive systems coping. However we found a dummy (dipped in gripe water when severe) saved our lives, a bath every evening calmed DS down, baby massage throughout the day (particularly pushing knees towards chest keeping legs very straight, walking fingers round his stomach in a hosershoe shape, sweeping hands round his stomach in clockwise fashion) helped a lot - with the bonding when you have a 'difficlt' baby as much as with the wind!

Good luck - it will pass though I know it doesn't feel like it now

Colief worked like a dream with ds, but he was on bottles. You can use it with bfing, but those Iknow who have tried it haven't found it much good. Try anything you can get your hands on! Gripe Water, Infacol.
I guess you could use it with EBM, but not sure if that would bugger up your supply?

I also found putting him on his tummy over my knee and giving him a dummy helped, though dummies aren't for everyone.

Commiserations - it is rotten. If it helps, it usually disappears about 12-14 weeks completely.

Thanks for all the suggestions - I will try them all.
We will keep on with infacol then. Have tried colief for 24 hours with a little EBM given in medicine cup before feed...am not sure yet if it is working (and its too faffy to do in the middle of the night). And will try gripe water once she is a month old. Will also try the winding breaks - I have tried that before and she REALLY hates being interrupted, but if that makes a difference I will try it - a bit of annoyed crying is better than agonised wind face anyway!
And maybe a dummy is another thing that we will try (along with all the other things the hospital frowmed on ). thanks

oh god, i rememebr how hard it was. we tried everything, infacol, gripe water, homeopathic things, cranio sacral, bicycling legs, massage etc etc. i did find drinking bucket loads of fennel tea seemed to help but dont know if it really did or if it calmed me or something!

warm baths were good, cycling legs and once she could suck her thumb, she seemed to get a bit better.she is now 6 mo and very farty!

wishing you lots of luck "this too shall pass"

Thanks again. I will try the massage more - but massage and skin to skin (which has also been suggested to me by someone as a way of calming) is a bit of a challenge in a cold flat in Feb!
Cycling legs do seem to work sometimes but I have given up on the infacol now, as after a week it seemed to be making things worse??...
Only 1 more week and we can try gripe water

Have you tried the tummy tub? Worked better than any infacol or colief for me. We used to call it the jacuzzi because of all the farts!!

dont know if it's been said but lying baby on tummy for sleeps during the day will ease off alot of wind being built up and giving the usual nightmare at night

Try cutting dairy out of your diet - it could be the lactose in your milk which is exasperating the colic.

With the colief - I used to hand express a few drops of bm onto a spoon and then add a few drops of that. Much easier and quicker than faffing around expressing.

Glammymammy - is the tummytub that bath that looks like a bucket? Might be worth a try but she doesnt like baths much so far! Maybe she'd prefer an upright bath...?
Sleeping on tummy I have so far resisted because of the numerous warnings about it being unsafe - sleeping on her side rather than back really seems to help though.
but i have ditched the infacol - after a week or 10 days it did seem to make things worse. Thanks all for the tips.