r/Colic

my 10 week olds gas is soooo much worse now and her colic is too… I’ve tried everything

grip water, mylicon/ovol, warm compress, baths, tummy massage, bicycle kicks, Frida windi etc etc EVERYTHING.

she is EBF - i am avoiding all dairy egg and soy. She will not take a bottle, absolutely refuses and she will not take a pacifier

she will not allow us to put her down. she will not sleep unless on top of my chest and even then it takes me forever to settle her

i cant keep going on like this

when does it get better??!!!

Baby is 5 months. We’ve done it all. reflux meds - chiropractic- dairy free breast milk - exclusively pumping as he wouldn’t latch - switched to hypoallergenic formula - speech language therapist - ruled out tongue and lip tie - gas drops - weighted feed with an IBCLC - nutramigen to alimentum rtf- sideline feeding - changed bottles - wear baby carrier etc. Even switched pediatricians offices and ended up at the er one night. nothing. just a colic diagnosis.

He’s just so miserable. All wake windows are whiny. Isn’t visibly in any pain or anything. No vomiting or diarrhea. He had mucusy stools and constipation so went to HA formula. Now I’m pumping and losing my supply for there to pretty much be no difference and now I’m driving all around to pickup formula each week..

Naps are 40 mins tops and most are 20 minutes. Chronically overtired. False starts for bedtime. Im just so exhausted and I feel like this is supposed to be somewhat of a happy time in our life and my family of four are sad. I feel robbed of the baby experience. I’m not saying I’m comparing or it should be amazing. I’m just saying I shouldn’t be so bummed out with how much crying is happening. I wear earplugs everyday. My oldest son and I don’t even talk, because I’m always trying to get a baby to nap. Which takes hours sometimes…for a 20 min nap.

We have a G.I. specialist appointment in 2.5 weeks. Im trying not to hold onto too much hope because I know everything so far has been a dead end.

Im trying so hard. Im on the phone with the pediatrician nearly weekly. I have another child to tend to who gets no attention. I can’t think with all the crying. I just want this nightmare to end

We welcomed our second child this past month.

Healthy baby boy, who is active, a shaker and a mover. He eats well, (we do breast feeding and bottle as sometimes he doesn’t latch boob the best) and he eats well.

This is where things fall apart.

At night we are in the basement, darkened and lay him in the bassinet in a love to dream onesie sack. We pre warm his bassinet with a pad (which we remove) and have a sound machine going quietly.

He will pass out before we lay him down and he will sleep from 945ish - 1215ish or 1245.

He will wake and we usually change him and bottle. Than this is where he refuses to go back down.

We give him boob or bottle and he just wakes up moments later in the bassinet. But if we transition him to laying on us and a blanky on top, he will fall asleep.

Sometimes that won’t even work.

Today is rough where he sleeps poorly during the day, fights and refuses sleep and I think it’s starting to affect him and my wife and I’d sanity.

It’s even devolved into me yelling at him a few times which I’m not proud of.

Please, any help is appreciated!

My daughter is 12 weeks today and I’m losing my mind. We’ve tried and done everything to make her comfortable and nothing is working. When will it get better? Here’s what we’ve tried:
✅ Currently on amino acid formula (neocate) after trying alimentum and puramino
✅ Tongue and lip tie released
✅ Prevacid twice daily
✅ Chiropractor twice a week
✅ OT once a week
✅ Small, upright feeds
✅ all types of bottles/nipples
✅ worked with GI to rule out structural and motility issues

My daughter has been having issues ever since she was 2 weeks old. She is never comfortable. Have been on 4 different formulas now. First enfamil infant, then gentle ease, then nutramagin and now neocate. She gets worse and worse each day. She won’t lay on my chest, she won’t go over my shoulder. The only way she lets me hold her is standing up in a sitting position. After awhile she gets sick of that and because inconsolable and I can’t get her comfortable at all. She has a referral to a GI tomorrow and I don’t know what’s wrong with to expect. Pediatrician thinks it’s silent reflux but this has gotten bad and i hate seeing my baby in pain. I need to know what’s wrong with her. I need to be able to bond with my baby. She’s on day 3 on pepsid and still no results. Lord help me.