What do you wish your doctor had told you?

[Nadine216]

That collic can be "cured" by a chiropractor!!
Our neighbour is a chiro and if I had know that some bubs (espesially if deliverd by c/s) can be helped by a chiro, I would have ran over to him a 2am!
It has to do with nerves that could have been pinched when picked up out of the uterus with a c/s. That in turn can aggrivate the simptoms of collic. So by taking bub to chiro, he will gently "un-pinch" the nerve and Bob's your uncle, baby is better. Does not work for all babies, but most c/s collic bubs benifit from a chiro

[pana]

I think Scarlet has said a lot of the important stuff with regard to reflux , so I won't repeat what she has said.

Medication is not evil. Weigh up the pros and cons and if you need medication to have a pain free baby, don't feel guilty about it.

Vented bottles help to decrease swallowing of air for bottle feeders which is helpful both for reflux and colic. They remove the vacuum that builds up behind the milk which means the baby doesn't have to suck so hard, and that tiny bubbles don't enter the milk in an effort to counteract the vacuum and then get swallowed into tiny little tummies. Dr Browns work well for us, but there are lots of other vented bottles out there. They're not particularly cheap, so maybe try buying just one and see what you think of it.

Also, know that for every so and so that tries to imply that you have a baby with average needs and you're just not handling it, there are swarms of us out here that know exactly what you are talking about!