«What is Known
About Infant Colic?»
This week I am linking up my post I have written in collaboration with Infacol and Cry - sis all about colic — We need to talk
about infant colic..
If you want to find out more
about Infant Colic Awareness Month head on over to the Infacol website.
With 1 in 3 new parents admitting they had never heard of it before, it is time that we started talking
about infant colic..
You can also read
about the infant colic remedies here; since some of them might be useful even if your baby is not suffering from colic.
Not exact matches
If your baby cries for extended periods every day and can't be settled, it can be
infant colic, which you can read more
about here.
In this post, you'll learn
about causes, symptoms, remedies and other parents» testimonies of
infant colic.
Surprisingly, we don't know much
about the actual cause of
infant colic.
McKenna, J., Middlehaus, W., Tarsha, M. Potential evolutionary, neuro - physiological and developmental origins of the sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS) and inconsolable crying (
colic): Is it
about controlling breath?
According to many experts,
colic is inconsolable crying in an
infant that lasts many hours a day, starting in the second week of life and lasting until
about 3 months of age.
Potential Evolutionary, Neurophysiological, and Developmental Originsof Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome and Inconsolable Crying (
Colic): Is It
About Controlling Breath?
Learn more
about probiotics for
infants and how they can help ease the symptoms of
colic here.
All healthy low - risk
infants will cry for prolonged periods for no apparent reason that is typically not associated with an identified etiology or pathology, although
about 20 % do this so much that they are sometimes considered to have «
colic.»
To find out more
about how to learn how to soothe your baby with
colic through
infant massage online, visit our website and take a look at our Soothe Settle & Sleep online program.
Besides, what
about children that have
colic as
infants?
The risk of these uncontrolled reactions is greater if parents don't have information
about soothing a crying child, education
about colic and the support needed for caring for an
infant with
colic.
Episodes of
colic usually peak when an
infant is
about 6 weeks old and decline significantly after 3 to 4 months of age.
Dr. Ron Barr, a Canadian physician who has researched
colic and
infant crying for many years, has looked at babies around the world, not just in North America or Europe, so he's able to talk
about the aspects of crying that cross cultural lines.
«When a mother came into the office complaining
about colic, fussiness, excessive spitting, constipation — you name it — and attributing it to the
infant's cow milk formula, the first thing I did was change the
infant to a soy formula,» said Dr. Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin and the other lead author of the report.
McKenna points out that
infants are susceptible both to
colic and SIDS during the same narrow developmental window, between
about six to 14 weeks — the time period during which the respiratory system is learning how to shift between voluntary and involuntary control of breathing that involves both the «thinking» part of the brain (the cortex) and the brain stem.