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The start of colic?

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Giddyup · 22/11/2010 18:05

My lovely DD is 17 days old and has been an extremely contented young lady thus far. Since birth she has been going 3 or 4 hours between feeds in the day and 5, 6 or 7 at night, going down awake to bed quite happily at 7pm etc- it been heaven! She is breast fed with the occasional top up as EMCS and her being 10lb left me with some supply issues to begin with. Although I think these are pretty much sorted now as when I have been topping up the last couple of days I think it has been fusiness rather than hunger and we had stopped befroe this for nearly a week.

For several days now she hasn't wanted to go to sleep (usually nods off after a feed) and has been seeming less and less happy. The health visitor suggested colic but she doesn't really cry, just wakes up distressed every hr or 2. She has got into a habit of waking with a cry, feeding frantically for a few minutes then falling asleep again but repeating the whole thing every half hour or so until she actually has 2 hours sleep. Could it be colic without the asscoiated crying? I just want my contenented little girl back or did I just have it too good for too long in the first place?

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babybear5 · 22/11/2010 22:39

hi. just wanted to reply to you. Congratulations. I to had a very content little girl for the first 3 weeks of her little life. Beautiful, happy, placid (5th child)..couldn't believe my luck. Would feed, breastsfed, and sleep also for up to 7 or 8 hours at night. Then she became unsettled. It was like having a different baby. She would only sleep for half hour or so and wake up. sometimes she wouldnt sleep at all but lie and every 5 mins or so let out a cry. she never cried like i thought she should have with colic but my hv said it was colic and i started to occasionally give her gripe water, and put her to lie propped up after every feed. i also took to wrapping her tight when i wasn't holding her and these seemed to keep her slightly more content. A baby sling was a godsend to!

What i can say is that now at 9 months old that stage is a distant memory. It didn't last long and she was very quickly, i think by 6 months, was back to the content baby i had. She is , i think if possible even more content that what she started out like and so adorable. it will pass and you will enjoy every minute of her again.

I hope this helps.Smile

katiecubs · 23/11/2010 09:35

Same! I had such an easy baby for the first 6 weeks, fed and slept like a dream then it all went haywire!

I think the first couple of weeks they spend alot of time sleeping anyway so it's often after this mark when they start becoming a bit more wakey that the problems start...

katiecubs · 23/11/2010 09:36

Congratulations though :) oh and DS is 14 weeks now and back to being happy and easy (or easier at least) x

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