Great post, Judy!
I've been saying this for ages: colic (koliek in Dutch) is a weird word.
You give good analogies and I can totally see what you mean and do agree 
with it.
It does make sense! :-)

Bye,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

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> Tania writes:
>
> The  worst of the colic passed at around 7 months, but he continued to be
> an  intense baby and a
> demanding toddler.  As he grew into a child and could  communicate he 
> needs
> more clearly I learned that he had strong aversions to  certain fabrics,
> textures, loud noises, changes in routine etc.In our case I  feel that th
> e colic was a combination of my excessive milk production and  his sensory
> issues.
> ~~
>
> ~~ Hello everyone,
> See this is where it gets tricky with the terms. In  Breastfeeding
> Management for the Clinician ( Walker,  2006) it reads: "Infantile colic 
> is a set of
> behaviors described in healthy  infants as episodes of irritability and
> hard, unexplained, and inconsolable  crying...",
>
> So I'm thinking, there is a difference between unexplained, and
> unexplainable. Thanks to those of you who shared your experienced with 
> your  stressed
> out and often challenging little ones. If a baby does have sensory 
> issues,
> or mom has a letdown like Niagara Falls (me) or a massive supply volume, 
> or
> baby is just expected to behave in a certain passive and noncommunicative
> way  and doesn't, then this is technically not colic. When I think about
> colic, and I  can come up with a reason for baby's behaviors, I don't use 
> the
> word colic,  because there is an explanation. Doctors talk about 
> "digestive
> immaturity"  being related to colic. Isn't that an explanation/ reason, 
> though
> it is  often suggested as a reason to ignore the baby's crying because
> "they're just  immature and will grow out if it. " Is the term colic like 
> the
> term SIDS, where  people worry about their baby dying of SIDS if they roll
> over on him/her, but  then that's really not SIDS, right? If we say a baby 
> is
> crying, and maybe has  mucusy stools and arches and cries until mom takes 
> out
> dairy and/or baby gets  CST or other strategies, would we say that baby 
> was
> colicky? I see a big  difference between a baby whose behaviors are beyond
> explanation, and baby whose  behaviors may have an explanation but the
> explanation is not figured out or  accepted. (your baby thrives best when 
> held
> vs. your baby is  colicky, just put her down til she grows out of this
> colic.) Does that make  sense? Maybe my idea of what colic is, is 
> unexplained!
>
> Peace,
> Judy
>
> Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
> Brooklyn, NY,  USA
>
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