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>>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:

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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

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