I hope that someone here can help me figure this out. My four month old has had "colic" since he was born. I have tried gas drops (unsuccessfully), gripe water (occasionally helpful), and stomach massage to really no avail. Currently I am on day 10 of TED (I'm eating turkey, lamb, rice, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, green and yellow squash, pears, and pear juice, olive oil, and coconut oil). The diet hasn't seemed to help and I feel so terrible for my poor boy who is obviously in so much pain and I don't know what else to do.
This is a rundown of our typical day, some better, some worse:
Mornings (after we're up) he seems relatively fine, happy even. He'll play happily with his toys in his bouncy seat next to me while I eat breakfast and read email. He'll usually want to nurse about half an hour or so after we get up and he'll linger for quite awhile. During the rest of the morning and afternoon, he's usually pleasant if being held or fed and does not much tollerate being put down for longer than 10-15 minutes. He usually only naps if I am holding him or if we are in the car. Intermittently throughout the day, often after bf, he gets very upset and cries in pain and won't stop until he is either draped over my shoulder and jostled for a bit or carried in what amounts to the kangaroo hold without the sling. Sometimes he passes copious amounts of gas, sometimes not.
Early to mid evening is when things start getting bad (although not consistenly). He wants to nurse constantly and throughout he will sometimes cry and go rigid and won't relax until I do one of the holds previously mentioned. Sometimes he just pulls off the boob and "whines" and then goes back to eating/sucking. He then will have a happy period for an hour or two until he falls asleep, somewhere between 10 and midnight. He'll then sleep for about three-four hours and wake up to eat and then sleep for another two-three and then he'll wake up every 15-30 minutes crying or fussing. Generally the only way to deal with this is roll him over me and switch boobs. He refuses to be burped at night--he only screams.
The other issues are that he only poops every three-four days (which I know can be normal, but his gas is often very fragrant, like there's poop that won't come out) and then sometimes will have a cycle where he'll poop a couple of times a day for two or three days. Lastly, the area around his anus is sometimes BRIGHT red and the mucous membranes are floridly purple and painful looking. It's not diaper rash as it will go away in a matter of hours. Sometimes when he passes gas, he cries, like it hurts coming out.
I personally have suffered from IBS off and on for years and have lots of environmental allergies, but none to foods that I am aware of. The only vax he's received is vitamin K and I had antibiotics after his birth because my membranes were ruptured for more than thirty hours.
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TIA for reading this any for any help that might be offered.
This is a rundown of our typical day, some better, some worse:
Mornings (after we're up) he seems relatively fine, happy even. He'll play happily with his toys in his bouncy seat next to me while I eat breakfast and read email. He'll usually want to nurse about half an hour or so after we get up and he'll linger for quite awhile. During the rest of the morning and afternoon, he's usually pleasant if being held or fed and does not much tollerate being put down for longer than 10-15 minutes. He usually only naps if I am holding him or if we are in the car. Intermittently throughout the day, often after bf, he gets very upset and cries in pain and won't stop until he is either draped over my shoulder and jostled for a bit or carried in what amounts to the kangaroo hold without the sling. Sometimes he passes copious amounts of gas, sometimes not.
Early to mid evening is when things start getting bad (although not consistenly). He wants to nurse constantly and throughout he will sometimes cry and go rigid and won't relax until I do one of the holds previously mentioned. Sometimes he just pulls off the boob and "whines" and then goes back to eating/sucking. He then will have a happy period for an hour or two until he falls asleep, somewhere between 10 and midnight. He'll then sleep for about three-four hours and wake up to eat and then sleep for another two-three and then he'll wake up every 15-30 minutes crying or fussing. Generally the only way to deal with this is roll him over me and switch boobs. He refuses to be burped at night--he only screams.
The other issues are that he only poops every three-four days (which I know can be normal, but his gas is often very fragrant, like there's poop that won't come out) and then sometimes will have a cycle where he'll poop a couple of times a day for two or three days. Lastly, the area around his anus is sometimes BRIGHT red and the mucous membranes are floridly purple and painful looking. It's not diaper rash as it will go away in a matter of hours. Sometimes when he passes gas, he cries, like it hurts coming out.
I personally have suffered from IBS off and on for years and have lots of environmental allergies, but none to foods that I am aware of. The only vax he's received is vitamin K and I had antibiotics after his birth because my membranes were ruptured for more than thirty hours.
:TIA for reading this any for any help that might be offered.
