Colic
Babies cry - it's a fact of life. They cry when they're hungry,
when they're tired, when their nappies are wet or dirty, when their
tummies are upset, when they're too hot or too cold or just plain
bored. They cry morning, noon, and night. Eventually, their
exhausted parents start to "learn" what those different types of
crying mean, and start to figure out how to soothe them - and,
blessedly, stop the endless crying.
But some babies don't stop crying - at least, not very easily.
They may cry inconsolably for hours at a time, and nothing that
their parents do - or don't do - seems to work. All babies cry, but
for colicky babies, crying is extreme and uncontrollable. And for
the parent of a colicky baby, those crying jags can seem endless -
and can feel drive parents to feeling like they're on the edge of
losing their minds.