colic/dr browns

[number7onway]

ok so really struggling now, bought some dr browns bottles as a last resort to help with LOs colic! how long does it take for them to make a difference????? she is defo less windy after bottle but still crying with colic pains! i feel so sorry for my poor LO!

 

[Jody R]

I noticed an improvement in Joseph's food intake and being less windy almost immediately but his colic didn't disappear right away.

He was about 12 weeks old when started sleeping through but settling him was still difficult sometimes.

Baby massage and a bath about an hour before bed helped too and so did the Infracol which we got from the doctor.

He still quite a sicky windy baby but I am convinced that the Dr Brown bottles helped more than anything else did, along with the Cow and Gate Comfort Milk.

He would scream for hours before he went to sleep, usually about 11pm and then he would wake up again about 1:30am and it would be another two or three hours of screaming before he went off again and then up again by about 6:30am.

Because my husband is in the forces and was away I had nobody to help, nobody to hand him to, no break at all. Sometimes he would settle if I put him in his car seat but then I couldn't get him out without waking him and I couldn't sleep knowing he was in the seat. I don't know how many nights I went to sleep sitting proped up in the corner of the room holding him up with my arms on my knees and his shawl wrapped around him because that's the only way he would sleep.

When we started using the bottles it took us from him screaming for hours at a time down to perhaps half an hour of upset before bed every night and then only maybe three nights of the week right to me being able to put him down awake and have him be happy to watch his mobile and go to sleep without my help or with any upset by the time he was about 12 weeks old.

They were a long twelve weeks for us but I am sure without those bottles he would have been suffering for a lot longer.

I really hope your little one gets on with them and the colic settles down very soon.

 

[number7onway]

oh hun, i feel for you, elesha is nowhere near that bad but i still hate seeing her so uncomfortable! she is defo less windy but still gripy! she is on soya cos of a milk intolerance so the medicines really dont do much! im glad your LO is feeling better now and you are getting sleep!

 

[Jody R]

I'm glad she's less windy but it is still really awful to think they are suffering somehow.

I suppose you've tried all the other things, laid on her tummy over your knees or up on your shoulder so her tummy is pressed into it.

And if you rub her tummy you move your hand from left to right so the pressure (not too much) moves the air the right way to push it out rather than further in.

You can lay her down and lift her legs up, bent at the knees to try and dislodge a bit of air too.

When I got really desperate I would hold Joseph low down with his tummy against my stomach but so he was full length with his legs hanging down and rock back and forth or side to side. It was murder on my back but it did help bring up his wind. And for some reason he always enjoyed my rendition of Fulsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash while we were doing it.

 

[number7onway]

yeah i tried everything hun, she brings her wind up really well thats why i didnt think it was colic til my health visitor saw her and agreed it was!!! she has now this evening developed a hernia in her tummy button which is making her worse!!! her favourite spot is laid on my chest as she has me as comfort and it squishes her tummy!

 

[Jody R]

Poor little girl, that sounds horrible.

She's such a cutie too and I love the hat she's wearing in the picture by your ticker.