Does this sound like colic to others?

Well the good news is that Maddie is sleeping at night...the bad news is that it mainly seems to be because she has exhausted herself through out most of the day and evening!

We're finding the last 3 days she has been unsettled from her feed at around 6.00am/7.00am until her next feed and then again in the evening feed around 5.30/6.00pm through again until her next feed.

This morning she was awake for 4.5 hours with only a 20 min snooze. She doesn't cry the whole time but it seems to come in waves and it's really hard to calm her.

Most of the time we've been taking it in turns to just hold her and pat her etc. I also got hold of infacol drops today, we used them at her evening feed...she's still been awake but doesn't seem to be crying as much.

The hardest part right now is that it's so frustrating when Maddie keeps crying and you can't do anything. I've been keeping the rescue remedy on hand!

Anyway, I'm off to the Plunket Family Centre for the day on Monday so here's hoping I get some good tips but from what I've read it sounds a lot like colic.

What do you guys think and do you have any other good tips or things that have worked for you whether it's calming baby or calming yourself?

Rescue remedy is fabulous. I also keep saying to myself, "Its not personal, is the only way he has of communicating" Over and over and over as I pace the floor!!
Hang in there, things generally get miles better once they hit that 3 month mark.

Edited by caraMel

aww it relly suxs that you are having shuch a hard time at the mo i was lucky i had my mum and my sister there for me thought all the screaming and it was pulket who found he had a herina the hole time glad to hear you are using the infacol as well helps alot with there wind the one thing i got asked re cocil was is he crying at the same time everyday/night cause if yes then it could be colic lots of hug hunny and remeber we are here to talk too as most of us have been there cryed though that

Yeah she can be pretty spilly...not all the time but often enough. She will arch her back when trying to burp her, not so noticable during or after feeds though.

We used the infacol this morning though and B said it really helped with the burping, she kept everything else down and she went back to bed!

We have tried gripe water also but we found that while it helped with the burping it increased the spilling. (fantastic on the hiccups though!)

PS its also hard to tell at night if its colic or their witching hour. Colic they seem to say the baby has screaming fits of 3hours and cannot be settled no matter what. And they mean screaming as in red face crying all of the works, just keep an eye out for reflux to coz they can come hand in hand

I have a baby who does have Reflux and he is on Losec for that. But he seems to have chronic bad wind down low which I often think is Colic. Colic is just really really bad wind/pains isnt it???


tell me I have been using Infacol as well before most feeds...its seems to work. Blake is quite settled from about 9pmish feed and thereafter feeds til 7 in morning. Then unless we are out in the car or I sit and rock him in his cot..he is a nightmare. Screaming and little legs pulling up. He will settle then wake and scream and oh it just goes on!!! I cant wait til the 3 month mark..I am hoping for awee small miracle!!


hang in there ..I can understand what you are going through and its extremely tiring and does your head in!!!

Caitlin had colic when we were demand feeding her, turned out that I was making it worse (feeding her every time she screamed thinking she was hungry ) anyways - we went through a bottle of gripe water which did nada and every burping position known to man!

We discovered Infacol and that stuff is the best ever! Also a tip, prop the head end of her cot/basinette up (height of a phone book) this apparently helps let the air up whilst keeping her food down. We still do this with Caitlin. I think the other signs for Colic was pullnig up the legs to the chest (Caitlin never did this) and green poos (I think this happens with Digestive colic?!?!)

We tried last week to have a few feeds without the Infacol, but we just ended up with a baby in pain with a belly full of gas
The other way to tell if she has bad gas is if her belly is rock hard and has a "banging" sound when she starts her feeds. That's what we found anyways.

Good luck Paws - I know it's hell when you have a tiny baby screaming at you, you feel so helpless. We called everyone we knew that had kids and asked them what they did... then did it ALL!

Well we've been using the infacol and this morning we got Maddie to settle back down!! I'm still not in a hurry to label her as haaving colic, she may just have been windy but something is working today!

We even put her down still awake and she drifted off both times! WOHOO!

And yes we adjusted her bassinet (ezi rocker in the cot) so that it is angled we give her plenty of breaks through out her bottle and burp her - though I'm not great at getting burps out of Maddie.

I'm still looking forward to going to Plunket tomorrow though...I refuse to be lulled into a false sense of security!

Sounds like things are a little better then... Hope it continues!

Colic is when they scream inconsolably for several hours at the same time everyday, not just that they have wind. And most babies have a really unsettled period in the early evening but its not necessarily colic.

In the early days, we'd have some very unsettled days. I then read the chapter on sleep out of the Oh Baby book - brilliant! I felt so sorry for Amelia, as I felt I'd been making things worse for her - every time she was crying, I was picking her up thinking she was hungry or windy, when in fact sometimes she was just between sleep cycles and was crying herself back to sleep.

I'm not saying that is the case with you, but as 1st time mum's we have a learning curve and sometimes what we think, isn't what is wrong.

Sounds like lifting the cot has worked well,good luck at the family centre - I've only heard good things about the one down here.