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Anyone know anything about colic? Oliver gets really un settled every evening for anywhere between 3 to 5 hours. He could be screaming and only thing that settles him is feeding. I'm bfing him which makes it hard. Then at about half 12 he settles down and sleeps really well.
Don't know what it is but dread the evenings now.
He is my first so haven't a clue really!!
Check out the book Colic Solved. By a gastric neonatologist in Houston. He's worked with thousands of kids that were labeled as "colicky" and came to the conclusion that colic doesn't exist. Every child that he worked with has reflux (majority) or dairy milk allergies. With treatment or dietary changes in the case if allergies, every kid got past the "colic". The book saved our sanity-our son would cry and be miserable on and off for about 6 hours/day. Someone gave the book to us 3 weeks ago and that validated that there was something we could do. My son was tested for dairy allergies (microscopic blood on stool) and found that he has that. We already knew he had reflux but it turns out his medication doseage wasn't high enough. With hypoallergenic formula for the allergy (while I'm eliminating dairy from my diet), zantac, Prilosec (at the highest does recommended for his weight) and probiotic infant drops (Biogaia/Gerber Colic Soothe)....our son is a changed boy! He went from crying for hours to a much happier, more relaxed child. Based on reviews from other parents, I think the drops really help at changing time. He used to scream every time his diaper was changed but by the 3rd day on the drops, that mostly stopped. Granted he still has his bad days, but he is so much improved. We were told to his him 3 months or so to "grow out of it" but we're so happy we didn't listen and just wait. Also, we kinda took the meds doseage into our own hands. The doc told is the range he could be prescribed, and she put him on the low end. That didn't work for him. We asked if he could go up, she said wait til his follow up appointment in a month. We weren't going to put him through that if he didn't need it, so we tried out gradually going up ever few days til we hit the right dose, which turned out to be the max he could get. If you have any questions, feel free to also pm me or ask here (I'm not the best at keeping up with this thread but will try and check back)
, you can get things like gripe water and infacol to maybe help. I found reducing things like onions in my diet helped too. But honestly nothing overly worked accept riding it out 
, it won't last forever and thank goodness he sleeps well after midnight! xx
Must be hard work, I find one hard enough! Glad things are going well for you
