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Colic, Gas, Reflux, or ??
What could it mean if my LO gets fussy sometimes while eating. He squirms around, kicks, and grunts. He doesn't cry or let go of the nipple. Sometimes he's pooping or passing gas. Otherwise it looks like he's trying. It mostly happens in the evenings. He seems to pass gas quite a bit. I try to burp him between breasts. He's thrown up everything 3 times, but otherwise nothing comes back up. Also, after feeding sometimes I'll have him laying on my chest and he's just so agitated like. He's kicking my stomach and crying. He'll calm down if I'm patting his back pretty hard. Any ideas?
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Re: Colic, Gas, Reflux, or ??
Sounds like maybe gas, but it sounds pretty normal to me. Their systems are still immature and they don't know how to work it yet. It's actually hard for them to poop because it requires simulataneous contracting of muscles in the intestines and relaxing the anus. You'd think that would be a pretty automatic thing, but I guess not!
Anyhow, you may have to burp him longer (like a couple of minutes). My son liked it if I stretched him way up over my shoulder, so that his belly was almost laying on my shoulder. The pressure felt good on his belly, I think. I've heard the same thing about laying them over your knees. Bicycling his legs might help, and I found that if I faced him away from me and held him with his knees pulled up to his chest, he would relax. And there's gas drops.
Colic is only if he's crying for several hours a day several times a week. And generally with reflux, they'll pull off the breast, cry, and arch their backs (with or without spitting up).
My son has this. He grunts and groans and cries in pain sometimes. We just burp the living daylights out of him. Sometimes if he hasn't eaten in a while and he's really gulping during the first few minutes I'll unlatch him and burp him and then let him finish.
Otherwise, it might just be colic. Which is a giant pain in the ass and no Mom should ever have to deal with it. There isn't a known cause or cure except to wait for their little digestive systems to mature.
this sounds like what was going on with us before i cut dairy (2 months). mylacon, etc. wasn't helping, at least that i could tell. even after just three days of dropping the dairy, it was better. by two weeks, DS didn't grunt/grown/kick/pull away or look uncomfortable anymore. he also hardly ever spit up.
i have tried to slowly reintroduce dairy back into my diet (6 months), and he is spitting up more now, but otherwise seems fine.