Home Diseases and Conditions Colic. Table of Contents. What is colic? Other features of colic can include: Crying for no obvious reason. Crying around the same time s each day. Colicky babies often get fussy toward the end of the day. However, the crying can happen at any time. Clenching their fists when crying or curling up their legs. Turning bright red when crying. What causes colic? How is colic diagnosed? Can colic be prevented or avoided? Colic treatment Colic may be triggered by certain things.
Everything you consume gets passed to your baby and can affect them. Avoid caffeine and chocolate, which act as stimulants. Avoid dairy products and nuts, in case your baby is allergic to them. Babies can be sensitive to certain proteins in formula.
Try feeding your baby smaller meals but more often. Avoid feeding your baby too much or too quickly. One bottle feeding should last about 20 minutes.
If your baby eats faster, try using a nipple with a smaller hole. This will slow down their feeding. Try warming the formula to body temperature. Try feeding your baby in an upright position.
Holding your baby Babies who have colic can sometimes respond well to different ways of being held or rocked. Hold your baby across your arm or lap while you massage their back. Hold your baby upright, if they have gas. Hold your baby in the evening. Hold your baby while walking. Rock your baby in your arms or by using an infant swing.
Comforting your baby Try these movements and stimuli to sooth your baby. Everyone pictures having the perfect baby who is going to be cuddly and sweet and never have any problems. It's even more serious than that, because it turns out that crying and exhaustion are the number one triggers for some serious problems like marital stress, postpartum depression, shaken-baby syndrome, breastfeeding failure, and even sudden infant death syndrome and suffocation, because babies cry so much that the parent will bring the baby into bed with them and accidentally get the baby in an unsafe position.
It also leads to parents starting smoking again, and to obesity because exhaustion unbalances your metabolism — making you crave sweets and fats - and it also undermines your will power. Besides making you feel incompetent, then, having a colicky baby actually leads to a whole host of serious and expensive medical issues.
Now, colic usually peaks at about six to eight weeks of age, and usually by three to four months of age it's pretty much passed on its own. But if you can do those 5 S's during those first few months, you really can help your baby settle faster. Interestingly, the more you do the Five S's , the faster your baby will responds to them. Babies learn that those things are going to calm them down.
There are many things that we can do to imitate what people do in Africa, and even to be better and more effective than the moms in Africa. Holding your baby, ensuring skin to skin contact, carrying your baby in a safe sling, and nursing — those are all wonderful ways of meeting your baby's need for contact and for nurturing stimulation. In addition to that, we've got things like white-noise MP3s and CDs, swaddling blankets, and reclining swings that can make the baby feel like he or she is in your arms when you have to leave to take a shower or cook dinner.
And of course there are pacifiers if you're not going to be available. So there are a lot of tools that we have to allow us to be effective caregivers. Have questions about a Happiest Baby product? Our consultants would be happy to help! Connect with us at customercare happiestbaby. Disclaimer: The information on our site is NOT medical advice for any specific person or condition. It is only meant as general information.
Call your doctor right away if your baby: has a fever of Who Gets Colic? How Is Colic Diagnosed? How Is Colic Treated? There's no treatment to make colic go away. But there are ways you can help: Make sure your baby isn't hungry.
Make sure your baby has a clean diaper. Try burping your baby more often during feedings. If you bottle-feed , try other bottles to see if they help your baby swallow less air.
Ask your doctor if changing formula could help. Some nursing moms find that cutting caffeine, dairy, soy, egg, or wheat from their diet helps. Talk to your doctor before doing this and stop only one thing at a time. Rock or walk with the baby. Sing or talk to your baby. Offer the baby a pacifier. Take the baby for a ride in a stroller. Hold your baby close against your body and take calm, slow breaths.
Give the baby a warm bath. Pat or rub the baby's back. Place your baby across your lap on his or her belly and rub your baby's back. Put your baby in a swing or vibrating seat. The motion may be soothing.
Put your baby in an infant car seat in the back of the car and go for a ride. Often, the movement of the car is calming.
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