Heather writes:

One  difficulty is that once this diagnosis of 'colic' has been given, the  
diagnoser may add stuff like 'so it's important not to feed more often than 
x  hourly/longer than y minutes, as this makes colic worse' or something 
equally  fatuous.


~~ The other sad thing is once the doc labels the baby colicky, everyone  
stops looking to help the baby, who may be underfed, may be having painful  
reflux, esp. silent reflux episodes, or may be a normal baby who is smart 
enough  to know that being whipped off the breast and swaddled into a stupor 
within  seconds of not showing a SSB pattern that means lots of milk is moving 
 is just not a good thing, and they protest. Local moms are told that of  
course baby's cry and they have "digestive troubles at this age" but it will  
pass if you just let them cry for a few weeks...
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA


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