Colic Baby?

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I need to ask first, are you sure it's colic? Our Everett was pegged as

" coliky " but he was tongue tied; he cried and felt miserable all the time due to

lack of ability to eat. For 4 months we lived in Hell with a baby crying 24

hours a day until we were able to get this fixed.

Other wise, rub his tummy a lot in circular motions, help him raise his feet up

and down, raise them and twist to one side and then the other side, gently you

know, but firmly too. Carry him in a sling near to you where he'll get held and

rocked but your hands will remain free to do your chores.

OH, thrush, have you looked for thrush? WE had that miserable problem for a

while too leading to more crying. I swear I didn't get my baby until he was 4

months old.

Hang in there - and most important, keep your sanity. If it means putting him

safe in his bed while you go hide in the laundry closet with both machines

running so you don't hear the crying, do that. There's no shame in being

exhausted or frustrated, and even in admitting at times you don't like that kid

very much at the moment. REMEMBEr babies are very keen to YOUR emotions - so

think happy thoughts, tell him what a good baby he is and really mean it, keep

saying it, thinking it, faking a good mood because if you are anxious, the baby

will act anxious too.

Hope some of that might help.

s.

Re: Advice of avoiding tenetomy

Krishna-

Congrats on -she is a beautiful baby. With regards to her

colic-I can not personally relate as my son had only 1 true episode.

However, my little niece was a colic baby until she was 4months old.

It ended up she had acid reflux-once they put her on nexium(baby

version) and got her formula straighten out-she was a much happier

baby. I have heard that the potential with the casts weighing their

legs down may affect their ability to pass gas-however, david did

not have that problem. I wanted to pipe in about the no tenetomy-

is almost 13 months old and to this point, he is tenetomy

free. His feet look great(Dr ponseti just concurred via email) and

we are glad that he has not had to have this procedure done. Who is

your doctor at shriner's? Is he an actual ponseti certified doctor?

Her feet looked good and you mentioned you were not able to take a

picture. Are her casts outwardly rotated to 70degrees? Just want to

make sure she is getting fully corrected! Hope this helps-I am sure

more moms will pipe in.

Keep us updated!

kathleen

mom to david bcf fab 10/7

> Hello everyone-

> It has been a while since I have posted. This motherhood role is

> tough to get the hang of. is 6 weeks old and getting

better

> at a routine--however her colic is getting the best of her. BTW,

my

> pediatrician thinks the casts might of added to her colic since

she

> can't raise her legs up to expel gas. Have any of you with a

colic

> baby had a problem with this? Any advice out there for colic

> babies. I do the tummy drops, massage, and gripe water. And just

> recently I changed bottles. It seems to be getting better but she

> goes in bouts.

> Anyway, since I have been out of the loop, I want to let you all

know

> I read most of the emails, but sometimes it is tough when I open

my

> email it says 300 messages or so to read. Yikes!! In any case, I

> want to say how wonderful I think the three wishes project went--I

am

> bummed because I did not have the opportnity to add our names to

the

> list. And Naomi--how wonderful that they are coming to your

town.

> So I have a question for you. was suppose to get her

> tenetomy this past Monday, but her doctor at Shriners was so

> impressed by her progress that he wanted to put on another set of

> casts--then see her progress next week. He said we could possibly

> avoid the tenetomy altogether--and go into the brace. Has anyone

had

> this experience? I am just worried about a relapse later in life,

bu

> I guess thre are no guarantees. Let me know your thoughts.

> Thanks,

> Krishna

> PS check out her before and after pics--Under -- I didn't

> post her pic from this week--camera ran ou of batteries