Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Look of Colic

So if you watched the video, I assume you were able to figure out that the poor little baby was trying to go potty. By the way isnt she so expressive!?! I think it is adorable!! But, as you can see she was having a little trouble, poor thing, and at the end she started to cry. This has basically been the routine for a couple days. If she has not been asleep or eating, Cote has been fussily trying to potty or spitting up. Her stomach is clearly upset.

Diagnosis: Colic

At first I thought she just wanted to be held, so that was what I did. Then I realized she was only calm when I was patting her back or bouncing her. Slowly I noticed her struggled efforts to potty and her increased spit-up/burping. She also is constantly pulling her legs to her chest, bearing down, and passing gas when she cries. Thus the only conclusion I could come to is Colic.

I have been giving her these disolvable, homeopathic pills that Elizabeth gave me called "Hyland's Colic Tablets."


As far as I can tell, they are working. Mom gave me some other meds, but they are liquid. Since I have been having problems administering meds through a dropper I will be sticking with the tablets for now.

So far I feel like we have been very lucky that she has not cried incesently and been unbearable to live with. Cote has been rather soothable though she is in obvious discomfort. I wish there was more I could do for her, but sadly there is no cure! All I can do is try to make her more comfortable.

I am also doing my best to be informed:

Mayo Clinic

WebMD

Colic Calm

Baby Center

If anyone has any other ideas or suggestions, please feel free to offer them in the comments below!

Please and Thank you!!

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  1. Jessica BentonJuly 1, 2012 at 5:30 PM

    Have you read about the 'colic hold'? It's basically holding her face down along one arm, facing out with your other arm coming up between her legs. This could help sooth as well. It puts a bit of pressure on their tummies.
    When Liam was 3-4 months old he had terrible gas pains and the only other thing that worked for me was holding him up on my shoulder, pressing his stomach into my breast (helps to have larger ones :) ), holding quite tightly and bouncing lightly around.
    Other than that Gripe Water has always worked well to calm Liam when his tummy is upset, but he didn't have colic. He has been constipated once for 4 days - I tried everything and finally had to go to suppositories. 2 within a few hours got the deed done and he has not had a problem since. Just stopped giving him so much rice and bananas...but you don't have to worry about this yet :) Isn't this all so FUN...it's amazing what is fascinating all of the sudden.
    She is a beautiful girl you have there...just adorable!

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  2. Alexa KellyJuly 4, 2012 at 9:01 PM

    Thank you so much!! I'm trying to get the hang of the hold. I don't seem to be very coordinated with a squirming baby!!';) but hopefully I will get it down and it will be just the cure she needs!!

    And I'm so glad you were successful with Liam!! I can only imagine how stressful that was! I hope I get to meet him one day! :)

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