Cin
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Background info: Baby was combi-fed breastmilk and SMA First Infant Milk for the first month of his life. As of 3 weeks ago he's fed entirely on Comfort milk (for colic and constipation) at doctors recommendation and 4x sachets of Infant Gaviscon per day due to silent reflux.
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At midnight on Saturday (29th) my baby boy Greg dirtied his nappy. Just after I'd finished changing him, he started screaming as if he was struggling to push more out. I don't mean crying, I mean screaming until he turned red in the face and ran out of breath. I'd never seen him like that before, the poor thing looked and sounded like he was in agony. I tried my hardest but nothing I did would comfort him. He managed to do another poo but it was only a small one and he carried on screaming afterwards. I was on my own with him at the time but after an hour I couldn't handle the situation anymore and had to phone my OH and ask him to come home (he was catching up with some old friends at the time). We gave him 2oz of cooled boiled water, but after another half hour of screaming we decided to take him to the childrens hospital to be checked over. As we were getting ready to go, Greg finally calmed down and fell asleep. Thinking that it was just a one-off, we changed our mind about going and decided to stay at home and keep an eye on him instead.
On Sunday he seemed fine during the morning/afternoon but by 6pm was screaming in pain again. We gave him 1oz of prune juice mixed with 1oz of cooled boiled water and put him in a warm bath to calm him down. It did seem to work - straight afterwards he did a runny yellow poo (sorry if TMI but normally his poo's are like a greeny brown mousse). He started screaming again so we booked an appointment to take him to the doctors the next day. Intermittently had crying/screaming fits throughout that night.
Monday (yesterday) he wasn't interested in his milk. Normally he has 150 - 180ml per 3/4 hours but yesterday he'd have about 60ml then push his bottle away and start screaming. He did another runny yellow poo that afternoon. Poor OH was left to hold the baby for most of the day - I tried my best to comfort Greg but everytime he started screaming I'd start crying because he was in extreme pain and nothing I was doing was helping him, it was horrendous. We waited it out until the doctors appointment at 5 hoping that we'd be prescribed some miracle medicine to make our beautiful boy all better. He advised us to keep Greg on the same dose of Gaviscon as he'd been having and prescribed Movicol (a stool softener) to be added to one bottle a day. Got home and gave him a bottle with the Movicol in straight away. He drank about 120ml in total. He was happy for the next 90 mins, til he started screaming again. This was the worst I'd heard him, they were shrill and high pitched. He was shrieking til he ran out of breath. He did so many that afterwards his throat sounded sore and hoarse. We decided enough was enough and took him to the hospital. He did another yellow runny poo while we were waiting to be seen, but still carried on screaming. After two hours we were finally called by the doctor. She felt his stomach and checked for anal tears but concluded that it was just colic and said that he should grow out of it by the time he's 4 months old. Greg had a crying/screaming fit infront of her so she heard how terrible he sounds. She advised us not to give him the Movicol as his little digestive system is too undeveloped for it. We were given a leaflet about how to soothe a colicky baby and sent on our way.
Greg was quite happy this morning. He kept doing terrible farts earlier and did another yellow runny poo but this time he didn't cry, he actually smiled as he was doing it! However about half hour after the poo he was given his bottle, but only drank half of it. Another half hour after that he started crying and screaming again.
I don't know what to do. It's heartbreaking seeing my baby in so much pain and not being able to help him. Sounds stupid but I didn't realise colic was medically recognised as a condition, I always thought it was just a term used to describe babies who cried for no obviously identifiable reason. But my boy does have a reason - his digestive system is giving him trouble! I don't know whether to continue with the Movicol or not. He did do a poo with no problems earlier so it must be shifting something, but then again one of the common side effects is pain in the stomach - I obviously don't want to give my little boy any more pain than he has already
Has anyone had any experience of a situation like this? Or just any words of advice? I'm fed up of seeing my boy in pain
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At midnight on Saturday (29th) my baby boy Greg dirtied his nappy. Just after I'd finished changing him, he started screaming as if he was struggling to push more out. I don't mean crying, I mean screaming until he turned red in the face and ran out of breath. I'd never seen him like that before, the poor thing looked and sounded like he was in agony. I tried my hardest but nothing I did would comfort him. He managed to do another poo but it was only a small one and he carried on screaming afterwards. I was on my own with him at the time but after an hour I couldn't handle the situation anymore and had to phone my OH and ask him to come home (he was catching up with some old friends at the time). We gave him 2oz of cooled boiled water, but after another half hour of screaming we decided to take him to the childrens hospital to be checked over. As we were getting ready to go, Greg finally calmed down and fell asleep. Thinking that it was just a one-off, we changed our mind about going and decided to stay at home and keep an eye on him instead.
On Sunday he seemed fine during the morning/afternoon but by 6pm was screaming in pain again. We gave him 1oz of prune juice mixed with 1oz of cooled boiled water and put him in a warm bath to calm him down. It did seem to work - straight afterwards he did a runny yellow poo (sorry if TMI but normally his poo's are like a greeny brown mousse). He started screaming again so we booked an appointment to take him to the doctors the next day. Intermittently had crying/screaming fits throughout that night.
Monday (yesterday) he wasn't interested in his milk. Normally he has 150 - 180ml per 3/4 hours but yesterday he'd have about 60ml then push his bottle away and start screaming. He did another runny yellow poo that afternoon. Poor OH was left to hold the baby for most of the day - I tried my best to comfort Greg but everytime he started screaming I'd start crying because he was in extreme pain and nothing I was doing was helping him, it was horrendous. We waited it out until the doctors appointment at 5 hoping that we'd be prescribed some miracle medicine to make our beautiful boy all better. He advised us to keep Greg on the same dose of Gaviscon as he'd been having and prescribed Movicol (a stool softener) to be added to one bottle a day. Got home and gave him a bottle with the Movicol in straight away. He drank about 120ml in total. He was happy for the next 90 mins, til he started screaming again. This was the worst I'd heard him, they were shrill and high pitched. He was shrieking til he ran out of breath. He did so many that afterwards his throat sounded sore and hoarse. We decided enough was enough and took him to the hospital. He did another yellow runny poo while we were waiting to be seen, but still carried on screaming. After two hours we were finally called by the doctor. She felt his stomach and checked for anal tears but concluded that it was just colic and said that he should grow out of it by the time he's 4 months old. Greg had a crying/screaming fit infront of her so she heard how terrible he sounds. She advised us not to give him the Movicol as his little digestive system is too undeveloped for it. We were given a leaflet about how to soothe a colicky baby and sent on our way.
Greg was quite happy this morning. He kept doing terrible farts earlier and did another yellow runny poo but this time he didn't cry, he actually smiled as he was doing it! However about half hour after the poo he was given his bottle, but only drank half of it. Another half hour after that he started crying and screaming again.
I don't know what to do. It's heartbreaking seeing my baby in so much pain and not being able to help him. Sounds stupid but I didn't realise colic was medically recognised as a condition, I always thought it was just a term used to describe babies who cried for no obviously identifiable reason. But my boy does have a reason - his digestive system is giving him trouble! I don't know whether to continue with the Movicol or not. He did do a poo with no problems earlier so it must be shifting something, but then again one of the common side effects is pain in the stomach - I obviously don't want to give my little boy any more pain than he has already

Has anyone had any experience of a situation like this? Or just any words of advice? I'm fed up of seeing my boy in pain
