Colic Calm?

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter. My daughter was born on 1/6/07. She has colic BAD. The doctor thought it was GER (reflux - she spits up A LOT), but when babies have the symptoms: crying, gassy, etc... it is hard to tell whether it is colic or GER. I have tried Baby's Bliss Gripe Water - I found it at Whole Foods, however it smells like black licorice and I don't think Alison liked it very much, so I went on-line and ordered the apple flavor, just got it today. I also purchased Colic Ease today - ordered that on-line also. The first day I gave Alison Gripe Water it seemed to help... but then it also seemed not to help in the days to come, but I'll try anything to make her comfortable... and mylicon gas drops do not work at ALL.

Try swaddling her also... Alison LOVES being swaddled... she sleeps very well like that. I have the Happiest Baby on the Block CD, DVD and book... some of the stuff in there does work, but the CD did not help at all. But every baby is different and your baby may love the sounds on the CD. Alison also sleeps in a cradle swing next to our bed. That way she is not lying down she is a little bit on an incline... she would always cry laying flat in her crib or bassinet.

Good luck... everyone keeps telling me it gets better. I'll just have to wait and see.... take care!

Hi-

My daughter cried from 4pm till 4 am for the first 4 months of her life! When I finally swithced her to Nutramigen formula she was fine! Nothing else I tried worked...fennel/peppermint tea/running the vaccume etc..Good luck and remember it will end!

I don't know about Colic Calm but do know that massage therapy works. I am a massage therapist and these steps should work for you http://www.ehow.com/how_9583_massage-baby-help.html copy the link into your URL (address) line. If the link doesn't work just Google massage for colic I got 46,100 results.

Good luck and congratulations on your daughter! : )

I used something similiar called Gripe Water. It has fennel in it. It seemed to help my daughter. Anything is worth a try with colic. Good luck!

Hi there! Congrats on your new little one! I did not try Colic Calm, but I did use the Mylicon - and, in our case, it did work ok - I used it just before my son went to bed, after his first meal in the morning and after a mid-afternoon meal. It certainly is not a complete problem-solver, but I did notice it helped a little.

There is light at the end of the tunnel! My son is now going on 4 months and is the happiest baby - smiles and 'talks' all of the time. So many told me that at this age he'd be a completely different baby, but going through the long bouts of crying (my son and me) in the beginning it was hard to be positive!!!! It's true though - colic too shall pass!!!

I have never heard of it but I did use Gripe's water. Which now is more common than when I started using it a couple of years ago. I don't know if you breast feed or not but if you don't try switching to soy formula. That would have made a world of difference with my boy but I didn't try cutting dairy out of my diet with breastfeeding. I since have another one and soy formula almost immediatly made a difference.

Dear N.,

I wanted to suggest two different things. Peppermint tea or a herbal cream that you would rub on the tummy. The herbal cream is from Shaklee. the website is myshaklee.com Shaklee is about all natural products and the best thing is if you are not 100% Satisfied you get your money back. These are the two things that my friend used for her colicy baby. If you have any questions please feel free to write me.
B.

I've used this but didn't work in my case. I am now using babies magic tea with full relief from my baby's colic.

My daughter had colic until she was 4 months old and it was agonizing. Although I never actually tried the colic calm or the gripe water, my doctor did discuss both and said that sometimes they help, sometimes they don't. My pediatrician at the time also said that peppermint and caffeine free tea were great for colicky babies as well. I was also unable to try this method as well, due to the fact that my daughter would never take a bottle.

The one thing that helped get me through the rough times was a book called The Happiest Baby on the Block by a Dr. Karp that I purchased at Borders, but I would assume your local library would have it as well. Tight swaddling was essential in order for my daughter to calm down and she slept the longest lengths of time in her cradle swing.

Hope things get better for you and your new little one. Get lots of rest and enjoy this time as much as you can....as miserable as it was at times I miss it terribly now that she turned a year last month.

J.