How to Fight the Colic Baby Blues

My wife and I had this problem wiith our infant. We finally found a solution from our pediatrician and it's called Colic Ease. It's a liquid that comes in a brown bottle and smells like pickles. It eases the infants under developed digestive system and gives them and you relief in a couple of days. We tried everything and this was magic. Colic Ease can be purchased online or at some health food stores. Order at least 2 bottles because it doesn't have along shelve life once it's opened.

Sunny, congratulations on finding what finally worked for your daughter. It took quite a while, but it was worth it to have raised her to adulthood. It is known that many babies are intolerant to cow's milk with it's very high protein level. It's primarily made for baby cows. In retrospect, I would be interested to know if you had breastfed your daughter. I know that 40 years ago, nursing wasn't very popular, as my first son was born 38 years ago. I nursed him for 14 weeks without much support, then cowtowed to pressure, and gave him a cow's milk based formula. He was so allergic and colicky, with projectile vomiting and diahrrea. I finally found a soy based formula and had to use maltsupex (malt soup extract) with it. He was intolerant to cow's milk for many years. I learned that orange juice had higher protein than milk. I've since had two more children that I nursed successfully, without any colic. I know that it may be that my first was the only one with colic, however, both of my long term nurslings fared much better with my milk only. I have found in my experience as a childbirth educator, doula, and breastfeeding counselor that colic is rarer in exclusively breastfed infants. Please reply, I'd like to hear more of your experience as I would like to broaden my knowledge of infant feeding experiences with your expertise with your baby. Thank you for sharing. Warmllly, Brea

I had a similar experience with my third child (out of four). She is now nine years old and only tolerates goat milk. She has several other food allergies and sensitivities as well.

Maybe you should've tried human breast milk since your baby was human. It would have been easier on the stomach.

Never tried the goat's milk...I nursed exclusively for the first 3 months with both of my babies. However, I should quantify that...I ended up giving them a formula bottle at 6 weeks because I seemed to go dry by 10:00 p.m. each evening. With my first one I tried the milk based formula which resulted on the first night of 6 hours of sleep for both of us, but by the 3rd night he was a very fussy baby. After I switched to soy based formula we both slept for 6 hours which was heaven for a sleep deprived mom. I continued to nurse and add that extra bottle at bedtime for the next 6 weeks and he thrived. At 4 months though the doctor told me that it was time for solids and to get him off me and formula-not sure why he wanted that but being the new mom and being almost 30 years ago-I listened to him, sort of. I continued to nurse him twice a day. Once in the morning and the second time at bedtime for the next 3 months. He never had another fussy day or night-in fact the only time he had any fussiness was when he was teething or ill.
As for my second baby-I did the same thing in the first 3 months and once again I had a baby that needed a soy-based formula. I guess by this time I had heard alot about colic and was very vigilant for it as I knew I was returning to the workforce at the end of those 3 months. I did not want to walk around work like a zombie due to lack of sleep. With this one we did not have the nights of fussiness but instead I went right to the soy based formula the minute she did not have a good night's sleep. After that and until she decided to stop nursing we followed the same routine I did with my first one. She did have a few more digestive issues in the first year, but after going back to very bland foods in her 9th month things were very good and I had a happy, content little girl.

Don't know if this will help anyone but if the fussiness goes on for more than 2 nights, get to the doctor to check for ear infections and if that proves to not the cause-then check into soy formula and then the goats milk...it might be the formula that is the whole issue as so many women have expressed here today.

Wishing all mothers-HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. :)

I also had a baby that was very colicy. She would only sleep 2 hours ever 4-6 hours. We tried everything that we could to ease her pain but nothing worked. We put her on Enfimal Gentlease formula and used Playtex Drop-In bottles. This helped a little bit but not much. We also had to take and bathe her everynight around 8 before what her bedtime would be and we had to prop her up at a 45 degree angle for 1 hour after she drank her bottle. Since it was very to get sleep because she only slept for 2 hours, we laid her in a bouncer/jumper to sleep. She had very bad colic from 4 weeks until she was about 22 weeks old. The only way that I could keep from pulling my own hair out was by getting the father to get up with her after I went to bed at 5 A.M. and I had help from her grandmother so I could get a little more sleep in the mornings. She not only had colic in the evening and all night but she had it 24 hours a day. Her colic is most of the way gone now but we are still working on it hoping that it will be gone all the way here pretty soon. If you have any ideas that would help me with her colic, please e-mail me at kaybee_99@yahoo.com I will try anything at this time. All ideas are appreciated. Thank you and God Bless

I am so thankful for young mothers that are still open to try something natural. I cried along with our first Baby Girl; and I didn't have anyone to tell me what to do. With our 3 Sons, I knew more or less what to expect. But I still did not know about goats milk. Now we have 12 grandchildren; I will share this with everyone. God bless you for caring for other Moms & their Babies. Thank you, Josie

This is in response to the comment made by Amazed on May 8, 2010. You must not have children! How could you make such an insensitive comment. No one knows if their child will have colic, so how can using birth control solve the issue of a colicky baby?? This problem isn't caused by anything the parent has done so why are you so cold hearted with your response?

too bad your mom didn't follow that advice.

Amazed.........check out comment #24

That is very rude! You have no way nowing if you will be having a colicy or a troubled baby.

WOW! How rude can a person be? Too bad your mother did not listen to that advice so new mothers with colicky babies did not have to listen to such an idiotic response. If you have such a problem with children, why even read about this? Find another blog to comment on. Like oh I don't know How to fight stupid comments from rude people?

My son is soooo good I didnt go threw any of this but we are all different if any one should stay home its you your soooo rude be gone

Grouch. Too bad your mom didn't think of that.

I am a twin, born at home, delivered by a drunk doctor, to a 40 yr. old mother in 1938. My sister had colic for over 3 months, and Mom was desperate to find a remedy for her colic. She was the only caregiver (we had a 3 yr. old sister, too) and swears that she, as a last resort, administered my twin a warm water enema. voila...no more colic.