> >>BUT...there are many convincing reason's why, in the vast majority >>of crying babies, the fussing has little or nothing to do with >>tummy pain: <snip> I very much liked this evidence-based look at 'colic' and what we in the UK call 'wind' ('gas' in US English). Many, many mothers tell me their baby has 'wind' , even at 2 or 3 days old. They feel that any unscheduled fussing and crying must be due to wind. Their lives are made easier, often, by simply feeding the baby when he has wind....but they are sometimes scared to try in case this makes the 'problem' worse. One thing they sometimes say is 'you can hear the wind in his tummy, making noises'. I remind them that if you put your ear to anyone's abdomen, you can usually hear pretty loud gurgles and swishes and swooshes - and that's through a lot more fat than a baby usually has separating his intestines from your ears! I will save Harvey Karp's excellent post and use aspects of it in training of HCPs (often crazily keen themselves on attributing every squeak and twitch of a baby to 'wind'). Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc, tutor, UK *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html