GER, Dairy Allergy, Colic...what?

My husband is a PT and read this in a pediatric physical therapy book (of course he read it AFTER our son grew out of his colic stage!) and it said that some times infants get the vertebra in the neck pinched or kinked and it causes intermittent pain that is confused with colic. It is usually not ever diagnosed because #1 a baby can't tell you their neck hurts and #2 it is confused with colic and sometimes (and in your case too I'm guessing) parents are told to just "wait it out".

The cure is simple and just is adjustments and exercises for your infant.

I would suggest trying to see a pediatric PT, but make sure it is one who is experienced with young children.

It is worth a shot I would think...

Have you thought about taking her to a Ped. Gastrointerologist for her spitting up and gas issues? My oldest had spitting issues and was on several different formulas and different meds and we did further testing and found out is was an under developed muscle issue and he out grew it.

The crying sounds like colic, oldest had it also, nothing will work you just have to let her cry. It sucks and it is hard but she will out grown it.

Babies generally spit up for about 4 months or so and is normal if it is in small amounts. My 4 month old niece that lives with us spit up half the bottle when she moved in with us. Her mom had tried several formulas and none seemed to help. We switched her to goat's milk and the spitting up went completely away immediately. Formulas have so many synthetic chemicals in them that it is really hard to pin down what is actually causing the problem. You said in another post that you use natural things so this probably makes sense to you. Goat's milk has been used as a substitute for breast milk for thousands of years. It is very similar to human breast milk.

After about a week we did a variation on the goat's milk by making a formula of 2 parts goat's milk, 2 parts distilled water and 2 parts juiced carrots. She gets the nutrition and the protein from the milk, the fiber and the added vitamins from the carrots and she's getting no chlorine or flouride (both very dangerous for little ones) in the distilled water.

Hope this helps!

M.
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Both of my sons had similar issues. I don't think you can know FOR SURE which thing is causing it but usually the bad crying clears up around 3 months. I would give it some time and if things don't get better around that time then maybe look into a gastro or a chiropractor or PT. Pretty common for babies to be like that. I know that doesn't help you any or make you feel any better about it cause I've been there, but it's true. Not sure if you've tried this but we usually could get a little bit of respite by using loud white noise....like the fan on the hood over the stove or running the shower or a loud fan, or we have a sound machine that makes the noise as well. I think it helps calm them cause it's similar to what they hear in teh womb.

i had the same issues with both my son and daughter. My son was worse. Enfamil A.R. for spitting up, worked very well for us. They would still spit up, but not as often. Before using it, they would cry to be fed, I would feed them and then they would spit up half way through the feeding. They would then cry again because they were hungry and then I would try and feed them again. it was a bad and exhausting cycle. I also used the gas drops. Those really worked for us. We would also massage his stomach while feeding him to help get rid of the gas bubbles. We would try to take burp breaks whenever he seemed to start getting uncomfortable. Since the day my son was born he was screaming, crying all the time, he was really horrible with every diaper change until just recently. He is now 19 months. What I have found is that he is a very strong willed boy and likes to be in control of every situation or so it seems. So partly maybe it is a bit of a personality thing too.