Pirate is 5 months old and still suffering from colic. Will it ever end? We've tried everything. I'm more so just hoping someone has some comforting stories for me or something. I feel like he's going to be sad his whole life?
Sharing a pic because.... How the heck is he 5 months already?
pomegranate / 3658 posts
I'm no expert but if it's still an issue at five months, surely that indicates something is going on besides simple colic? What does the doctor think?
eggplant / 11287 posts
My daughter had colic and she didn't really settle until she was 6 1/2 - 7 months old. Things got a LOT better when I changed my diet (no more blood in stool or screaming at breast) but she still cried more than normal and was just really sensitive to things like clothes, fabrics, hot, cold, noise, transitions, etc. We were definitely those people where every time we were at a park, store, event, party, etc., we had a screaming baby.
Good news is now she is 21 months and is a super hilarious, quirky, adorable kid!
pomegranate / 3706 posts
Both of my girls had colic, my first was 24/7 for the first 6 months of life. Having her tongue and lip ties released helped immensely. Both of them are happy kids now, hang in there. 
papaya / 10570 posts
Poor little man. 
E's colic was resolved (by special formula milk) when she was about 4 months old but she remained a very unhappy little soul because she was a terrible sleeper and was just so frustrated by not being able to get about - I remember posting on here "is it normal for my baby to be so miserable all the time". As soon as she could walk she cheered right up and she's a super happy little girl now.
kiwi / 556 posts
@Cherrybee: what formula helped? I have a friend trying to figure out formula for her colicky 6 week old (she is also dealing with reflux).
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
@PawPrints: she just thinks colic. She's given us several mess that she says might help but don't. I'm not sure?
@Rainbow Sprinkles: oh yea, always screaming haha! Love that she is now a happy child!
@erinpye: dang, no ties on him Thank you!!
@Cherrybee: I sometimes feel like that's the issue. He can't stay still. He always is trying to jump right out of my arms or lap. Like just wants to be jumping around.
persimmon / 1339 posts
We didn't deal with colic but when my son was inconsolable we would bring stimulation down to basically zero, sometimes for hours or even days. He was and still is really easily over stimulated so I'd often wrap him up, take him to a dark room, and just sit with him, maybe sing or read simple books but mostly let him doze on me on and off. A very famous paediatrician in Australia has some great ideas about colic, his name is Dr. Howard Chilton and if you google him I'm sure you'll find some good advice - his tips always worked for us, but again we didn't deal with it on a continuous basis at all.
Good luck, 5 months is a LONG time to be dealing with constant screaming!!
coconut / 8861 posts
E's colic settled down when he learned to fart. It sounds bad, but his colic was heavily gas based. Once he could sleep on his tummy and push the gas out on his own, it got better. We used the Windi a lot. Doing Harvey Karp's methods got us through it too.
papaya / 10570 posts
@anonysquire: I always used to say that E hated being a baby! We would do tummy time and she would flap about trying to crawl, screaming her head off. Then when she finally did crawl, she would only crawl to the sofa to pull up then scream her head off. Then the day she walked, everything changed. She's been happy ever since.
@ldh112: We are in the UK so our options might be different but we used cow and gate comfort milk. It had partially digested milk proteins...
papaya / 10570 posts
@anonysquire: Ooh, I just remembered..the Jumperoo was a life saver for us. She was happy when she was in the jumperoo.
kiwi / 556 posts
@Cherrybee: got it. I actually have our formula shipped from there! We supplement with Hipp.
pear / 1586 posts
@ldh112: jumping in to say that Gerber Soothe worked really well for our DS with reflux, just in case your friend hasn't tried that one yet.
nectarine / 2987 posts
A pediatric chiropractor really helped with our colic, but ours was mostly from dairy allergy and constipation, not temperament. Good luck!
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
My LO turned a corner at about 4 months. 6.5 months was when I really started feeling like we could go places with her without break into a cold sweat from the stress of the screaming. But even at almost 2, she has a "high strung" temperament. It has gotten a lot easier but she is just not the easiest kid.
apricot / 409 posts
@MrsSRS: I agree with the suggestion for a pediatric specific chiropractor. I've seen it work miracles!
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