Colic, Why And What

Hours and hours, days and days, the crying just won’t stop. Everyone in the house is getting irritated. Sleep is at a minimum. Your child has colic. I intend to briefly show you what colic is and what you can do about it.

When a baby has colic things around the house can be very trying. Family members become stressed out. The most times you see this is with new parents. A few ways to recognize that your baby has colic is long, loud crying sessions for very long periods of time. The baby will make fists and pull their legs under them often telling the parent that they have bowel pains. New parents get to their wits end because they are doing everything for their child and nothing seems to be working.

Even the medical society has no definite answers as to why colic happens. There are several theories. The most popular one being that the child took too much air into their stomach while drinking milk or juice. This creates gastrointestinal pain. Another theory is that a child has a very sensitive stress system. With all the new stimulants around them daily it stresses them out and as the end of the day comes along the only way to deal with these stresses is by crying.

About 1/3 of newborns experience colic. So many parents believe they aren’t doing everything possible for the children but it is definitely not a result of poor parenting. Most babies won’t experience colic after the three month period of life but you want to know what you should do until then. There is no miracle cure for colic but below are some things you can try to help ease your babies colic.

1. It often helps to just hold your baby in your arms and rock them.
2. A baby swing will often help as long as you keep it moving back and forth.
3. The one that often worked for me is taking my child for a car ride.
4. Often a nice long stroller ride will work.
5. If you can turn on a vacuum or fan the noise might distract the baby.
6. This one doesn’t usually work but on a few occasions it has. What I’m talking about is using a pacifier.
7. Lots of success has been found when giving the baby a warm bath.
8. You can try to burp your baby.
9. If the mother is breast feeding she could try and change her diet so that she’s not eating gassy foods that she may be ingesting to the child through her milk.
For the most part new born colic is nothing to worry about. Ask other people who have children how they dealt with it. Something you should watch for is your own stress. Endless hours of crying and screaming can make even the best parent in the world miserable. Make sure you have some help when your baby is colicky. You will notice that the screaming will be easier to handle if you can just walk away from it for a few minutes.

Dale Mazurek

Dale has been a father for 21 years and he is also a professional writer who uses blogging to get his points out on many different subjects. You can check some of these out at http://relationshiptidbits.blogspot.com/ or http://acne-cause.blogspot.com/ and http://affiliatemarketingfornewbies.blogspot.com/