Help for Colic

[Applecrumble]

Any advice....please we have used infracol from day one..

i combination feed, with breast during the day and night feeds, with oH giving her two bottles at night one around 7 and one at 11 ish...the colic is teribble from 8-10 really inconsolable crying and gas.

We have recently changed from instant formula to powder formula...thinking about calling the doctor tomorrow, but dont know what I should be asking to be perscribed...

Please help!!

 

[Rooster30]

Ask for Colief. It does help a little. We used Cow & Gate Comfort which helped slightly too.

 

[tinselcat]

Am wondering this myself!

Health visitor today said colic tends to go away at 10-12 weeks when the baby's bowel has developed further. I know that doesn't answer your question but I found it helpful to know that there will be a natural end to the pain for the poor baby. xx

 

[Mrs_W]

we're using gripe water which is helping him a wee bit.

 

[Applecrumble]

Its so weird..her colic seems to of got worse...we are 12 weeks on Monday...went to boots and stocked up on comfort forumla..anoyingly i forgot to look at medicinr section, but have colic calm, infracol and gripe water....also got dr brown bottle..

Interestingly and another question... Im querying what colic is exactly...read a description in boots that made me doubt what she has...

Imogen symptoms are...trapped wind, looks like she is struggling to pooh...lots of crying...(she does pooh regulary during the day every day, so not constipation)... Does she have colic

 

[Rooster30]

My son arched his back a lot during his crying fits and hated being on his back. He had to sleep on his tummy from a young age.

I hope your LO gets better soon

 

[TTT]

My lo is 3 weeks old and would cry inconsolably in the evenings and had terrible wind. In the last two days I have changed the way I feed him (completely breast fed) and sit him upright on my knee to feed and I read up on latching on and have improved on that greatly. I have also started winding him when he has a break mid feed rather than just doing it at the end, and I must say these little things have made such a difference. He didn't cry at all last night and his stomach isn't swollen and hard like it was before. He is much calmer - makes you feel bad for them having wind in the first place though doesn't it I am going to try expressing now so my husband can do a feed in the night to help me get some sleep and let him have more bonding time with baby.

 

[queenriccy]

I know exactly what you are going through.
Olly had bad colic until he was about 14 weeks and we did everything. At 20 months he still pumps and burps for England and sometimes gets trapped wind.

We tried everything possible - The biggest change was Dr Browns Bottles, keeping him upright while feeding and for about 20 mins after - having a really good go at getting his wind up with loads of different positions I found on youtube and winding every 2oz - gripe water was good if I was struggling - baby massage (look on youtube) and do it 3/4 times a day.

We changed his milk and that made him worse, he ended up so bunged up and eventually couldn't poo.
Night feeds were the worse for us, until 5 months he woke 2 times a night for milk and would drift off drinking but I really struggled getting any wind out of him when he was sleeping - as soon as I lay him down he would wake screaming.

We usually spent most of our evenings taking it in turns walking round the living room with him on our hips bouncing away taking everything in to try and get wind out of him.

Its awful - My cousin warned me before I had Olly as all 3 of hers had it but I didn't realise how bad until we had it.

But like I say he has always been bad at getting wind up - When he was 6 months old I was speaking to a lady in Boots who recommended I buy and try 'Optibac Probiotics Infant' - Its not cheap £12 for a months supply from amazon , they are sachets of granules and you put it into their first bottle of the day. It worked amazing with Olly - he for the first time didn't wiggle around in pain trying to get a pump out.
My friend has a 6 month old girl with exactly the same problem and for 2 months she has been sleeping an hour at a time through the night and she also has a 4 year old to look after - I had a months supply left from Olly and gave her it on Friday and Jenny slept for a 6 hour stretch on Friday night - she wasn't in pain.
Coincidence I don't know, But I can honestly say these worked great for us so It worth a try. We stopped Ollys at about 10 months because he started sleeping through

xx