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Here's a sticky where I we can post our tried & tested colic relief for others. I will add at the bottom of this post some links to previous posts regarding colic for all those new Mums searching for answers ;)
Feel free to respond what has been working for your baby, that way we can combine our research.
Don't forget to check out the main site's articles for help with babies in articles such as Baby Massage and The Crying Game
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the only thing that seems to settle my colicky 10 week old is bouncing on a gym ball with him! brilliant!
I second that one - it was our saviour!:
These links don't appear to work.... :confused::
I was told by the sleep school yesterday that my baby appears to have colic. So I thought I would check this out for more info...
I too was interesting in these links as my MCHN thinks my 5 week old bub has colic. Really need some good info on how to cope with it atm.
My first daughter was a colicky baby. Wow, what a way to start parenting! :eek:
We found that bouncing her was a good way to soothe her, but we could only keep that up for so long. Wearing your baby in a sling or snugli is also supposed to help a lot. She was always happy in there. But again, eventually, she had to come out. We tried the car rides, running the vacuum cleaner, warm baths, peppermint tea, cutting out half of my diet, etc. etc. No great long term fix.
Finally we took her to the chiropractor at 6 weeks, and that improved things quite a bit for us. I'd say about 60% better. I never would have thought that it would help, but I saw some papers on chiropractic care for colicky babies at our chiropractors office, and I thought, why not try it? They are VERY gentle, and our chiropractor treats his clients' children for free, so we had nothing to lose. If you have a chiropractor, I would definitely look into taking your colicky baby there. It saved us a fair bit of sleep. :)
If you have a fussy baby, hang in there! It will get better! Make sure you get help, and get out at least occasionally. It's a long, and stressful time, but it will improve. :)
I was just about to post about colic and Chiropractors. We took our now 5 week old bub to the chiro last week and her symptoms have improved out of sight. She had a problem with her lower back and they gently manipulated it for her, now she moves much more freely. It's not a miracle but it does give some relief, it is so heartbreaking not to be able to comfort your baby when she has colic.
We are very luck in Ballarat to have a dedicated childrens chiropratic clinic, they are very very thorough and very gentle. We will return to the chiro this week for a follow up and see how things are going. But I believe I have a much happier baby now. Which means a much happier Mummy and Daddy too :)
Girls those links we had earlier won't help because they have been culled because they hadn't been looked at in a few months.
I will give you some of the tips that were included in those links and hopefully some Mum's will add what has helped them;
1. 10-20mls of cooled boiled water. Around room temperature. This helps push wind out.
2. Massage, this is amazing in helping push out those bubbles that get stuck. Check out the link in the first post to the article on the main site.
3. Most Mum's have found that different products work for some babies better than others ones that have been mentioned are:
Marina's Mixture
Infacol
Brauer's Colic Drops (homeopathic)
Gripe Water
*I found with Matilda that one would work for a few goes and then not work as well the next time, so I would try something else out.
4.Positioning them, holding them with their bellies pressed down on something, so laying with their bellies on your arm & their head in the crook of your embow, rubbing their backs to help relieve the pressure. Keeping them on an incline, in a sling such as the Hug-a-bub.
5. As mentioned earlier, chiropractic care has been known to help relief the pain of colic.
Any other ones to add?
Thanks Christy!!
I've never heard about the 10-20mls boiled water! I'll try that one. When should you give this to baby?
Pinky McKay gave me some advice; and said that I should carry baby in an upright carrier in the afternoons for a while.
I have been using 'Infants Friend' for Charlie and this seems to work better for him than Infacol - although I think he liked the taste of Infacol better.
With the Infacol he was still in pain trying to get the burps or farts out - but the 'Infants Friend' seems to soothe his little tummy.
Don't use if you can't stand the smell of aniseed though!
Obviously I am not a medical practioner - I was hoping someone else on here would have some info about the product - if anyone else has used it I would love to know what you experience has been
are these hammocks the same as baby slings?
Ann
No Ann the hammocks are instead of a bassinet or cradle. If you google baby hammocks you will see them :)
Sorry to butt in, but Emily (Fraser)...where do you get Infants Friend? I'd like to give it a try & currently use Infacol...
Only things i found to work was the bolied water, 10mls 3 times a day just before a feed, I also use Brauers colic relief and i changed to Karicare infant formula.
Now Chelsea seems much more settled and she burps easier now too and SLEEPS!! She was really bad for the first 5 days and id be on the phone at 3am to meternal health asking what to try and they were the ones that recommended the water. A warm bath sometimes helped as well.
My little girl suffered with colic from about 3 weeks, I read about colief and decided to try it, within 24 hours the colic was gone. She still suffers a lot with wind but no pain and crying. She is now 13 weeks so hoping to be able to wean her off it. For me this product was a miracle after trying so many other things.
I found that DD only got colic when I gave her a bottle if I was working, having a drink etc. We tried different types of bottles. Avent were terrible, NUK were ok, best were MAM. I was surprised as it seems most people use Avent and I'd never heard of MAM until a friend recommended them for colic. They made bottle feeding a much easier experience!
Sorry to butt into the thread, I just saw something interesting and I have to ask a question!! :D
Jentak, regarding the bottles - is this because they are different shapes and don't let as much out as others? This is a very interesting thing to know so I'm very curious (can you tell that I'm absolutely clueless? haha).
Can I say drugs? ROFL
Don't be afraid to talk to your doctor, don't feel like a failure and get the help you need when you need it!
We had to sleep Jensen in a sort of upright position, or carry him round in a pouchy thing in the evening. Infants friend worked for a while, but then we discovered Donnalix Drops. That seemed to do the trick.
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Celeste is now 6weeks old and has had colic since around 3weeks. I use the Brauers Colic Relief and have tried weaning off of it but she still needs it so it looks like an ongoing thing. I use the up over the shoulder burping position around 3 or 4 times during a feed if she lets me (depends how hungry she is!) and keep her up there for a while after. Just tried the gym ball and that worked a treat.
Also, we have an Amby Hammock for her bed and that is FANTASTIC. I can do the bouncing motion on the ball and then transfer her to her bed and continue it bouncing till she goes to sleep. She will often wake and her movements will soothe her and she will put herself back to sleep if she isnt toooo upset. I love it!
Warm bath with Natural Instincts baby bath (lavender) and a massage with their baby massage oil (also Lavender) helps too and I do the leg actions also, bringing her knees up to her chest and the bicycling one too. I have to take her cloth nappy off to get good range of motion. Works a treat.
Sazzafrazz I can't keep my 5 week old daughter still long enough to really give anything like massage and the leg movements a decent try!! She does not stop wriggling and screaming. Is your bub a wriggler as well?
So far a wheat pack has been helping when she gets pain's, we put it between my belly and hers and hold her on her side like a football and cradle her head with the other hand and gentle 'jiggle' her head. It also helps her get to sleep in her bassinette when we have been nursing her as she doesn't suddenly loose all that warmth of a body.
I'm off to the osteopath tomorrow though to see if they can help at all.
I found that giving my daughter bottles during the day and breastfeeding only at night helped with her colic. Whether it was something I was eating or drinking that was affecting my milk and therefore her I don't know. She is alot happier when she's had the bottle throughout the day though, only problem is getting her to take it (she knows the difference).
I spent a fortune on bottles and different teets to try and get her to take them, she is doing alot better now then in the beginning though. Not so much of an argument to get the bottle going, now she just needs to learn not to get the hands involved and we will be right.
She's on the Novalec colic formula and using advent and mam bottles
Before I discovered the link to the breastfeeding causing her pain the only thing that seemed to work was lying down myself and lifting her up and down with my hands under her arms and palms of hands on her stomach. Gave my arms a good workout at the same time!! lol
I tried the colic relief, infants friend, gripe water, all these seemed to do is result in a massive power spew. Whilst this made her happy it seemed I was just solving one problem but causing another..
emily never suffered from it, but our son (Harry) had real trouble with it. in the end we had to use a product colief, but boy did it work! it cost a small fortune for a tiny amount, but none of the other products worked with him. happily he has now grown out of it, so we now get a reasonable nights sleep!
alli, em & h
Try reading the book called 'colic solved'. Written by a paed gastroentenologist. He goes through what he has learnt in his practise and it's about 'colic' being a diagnosis by doctors who can't figure out what's wrong. Usually it's reflux and/or Cow's Milk Protein Allergy.
My son had 'colic' until i cut out a whole heap of foods from my diet. Changed baby :)
One word.. Babywedge! This product was amazing for us. We don't like giving our children too much medication and wanted a natural solution. When we started using Babywedge, we saw a difference straight away! It was like I had a new baby. Was such a relief for us. Definitely try it! I assure you it will work wonders :)
We tried everything (diet, duration/position of feeding, homeopath colic treatment etc) - and then our midwife recommended we try an osteopath, she said another client of hers had tried it and it had work, and we thought, anything is worth a shot.
After the first session we saw an immediate improvement so we booked again the next week. After that treatment she went an ENTIRE day without colic. In all we had 6-7 treatments and pretty much after that didn't have any more colic episodes.
It was a lifesaver. Worth a shot. It's been 10months since she had colic but I can still remember it like it was yesterday...
Harvey Karp's Happiest Baby on the Block.
Babywearing. 6 sling hours early in the day makes the nights so much easier!
1) Chiro
2) physically cycling legs & massage
Sorry, fat fingers syndrome might occur.