Advice for colic.

Hi all,
Just wanted to chat a bit about colic. My first daughter Niamh didnt have it at all, but when Tara (now 4months) came along, she developed colic at about 2months.
It was a gradual build up and eventually we got 4 hour screaming fits (bless her).
Anyway, I asked my friend who also had a baby with colic what she did to calm it. She suggested using dr Browns anti colic bottles. We went out and bought 2 to start with (they are expensive), and no kidding, that night, instead of 4 hours screaming, we had 10mins!! After that, it just got better. As we were using cow and gate milk, my hv suggested we switch to cow and gate comfort, which we did, and that was it, no more colic. Couldnt believe it. We thought it was just good timing and maybe she'd grown out of it,so we went back to using our avent bottles and normal c&g milk, but she had a screaming fit that evening.
Im not saying it'll work for everyone, but I wish I'd heard about the bottles sooner.
Just thought Id pass on the help I was given to anyone suffering with colicky babies!!
Sorry for the essay!
Kas xx

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Hi Kas
My name is Lucyanne.I too used Dr Brown bottles and they made a huge difference to my daughter's colic.As soon as we started using them when she was 2 weeks old her tummy pains went commpletely. AMAZING bottles. have recomended them to friends.

My little boy when he was a baby has Colic quite bad and i used infacol drops before every feed. It seemed to work for him x

Hi lucyanne, glad Im not the only one who had great experience with Doctor Browns.
Ive also recommended them to friends.
How old is your little one?
Kas xx

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Hi Andrea,
Even though my first daughter didnt get colic as such, she did have grumpy times and infacol worked for her, but it didnt make any difference to Tara, tried gripe water also.
Funny how things work for some children and not for others, eg, With Niamh, we used teetha homeopathic teething granules which were amazing, the gels wouldnt work, but with Tara, the gel is like a miracle worker.
Hope you are well
Kas xx

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Hi Kas
Although i have a boy and a girl they are sooooo different in what worked for one and not the other. My little girl has never suffered from colic like my boy did and the same for teethin. A friend of mine used doctor browns and she said they were fab
Andrea x

Can anyone help us at all?

We have a little baby girl, Alex who is 7 weeks old this Tuesday. She has been suffering from what would appera to be Colic (as read and digested on many forums). We were advised to try Dr Brown's bottles, we got two at first and found them to be a great help and went out and bought a further 4. Her colic then increased again and by increased I mean...
She seems to feed fine through the day, at somewhere between 9 an d 10pm she takes her feed (5 oz) of C&G premium and is always winded as near as possible after every ounce but all the time she is feeding she is drawing her legs up to her chest, arching her back, crying and generally not happy. This has gone on for weeks now, we have tried her on C&G comfort food and it makes no difference, we were advised by a friend to get a product called Colycynth granules which are placed on the tongue, this seemed to settle her alittle at first and then within two nights she was screaming again in bad pain. We try all positions to wind and comfort her, over the shoulder, on her tummy acroos our knee, sat up (this is the worst position for her, the most pain). We have been going through this now for two weeks where she does not settle at all from between 9 at night and 2.30 in the morning. We have asked the Gp, health visitor and all we get is "it's just colic she will grow out of it" The next person to say that to us is going to get a severe mouthful as it is wearing thin now after watching our Daughter go through hell every night for two weeks and we see no improvement. Can anyone please offer any advice or suggestions? We have also tried gripe water, Infacol and the granules. We have read a little bit on various forums and going to try the Aptamil tomorrow but if anyone else has any ideas they will be most grateful. We are now beginning to think she perhaps has an intolerance to something. We are also taking her to the clinic tomorrow to the baby massage group, hopefully we will pick up some useful exercises there?
Any help or advice will be extremely welcome. Sorry for the war and piece but had to try and cover everything and still I am sure there are other factors I have missed.

Many thanks in advance

Paul, Jackie and Alex

Hi Sorry you're going through this but congratulations on your little girl. I have heard that colief is fantastic it's pricey but can be prescribed. Try searching the p&p website i know in a previous issue they had lots of advice on easing colic. I hope you get it sorted soon take care x

hi
you could have been describing my daughter when she was born!
We tried everything we could think of to try to settle her.
1 thing that did help to relieve her pain a bit was a warm bath and a flannel across her tummy.
Coupled with this she had diarrhoea.
It turned out she was lactose intolerant.
GP prescribed a lactose free formula and together with using DR Brown bottles, within 24 hours she was a different baby.
I did see on "the baby wisperer" that colic symptoms can be as a result of reflux.
I hope this is of some help and that you get something positive from your clinic app today.
I wish you the very best of luck in sorting out her pain so that you can go on and enjoy your baby girl xxxx