Colic/fussy baby - related to birth trauma?

eminbmore · April 2009

While doing some research on colic, I read somewhere that there is a school of thought that says colic is related to birth trauma - that all the crying and fussing is a baby's way of reacting to a traumatic birth.

I kinda think this is a load of BS, but my baby is colicy/fussy and we had a fairly traumatic birth, so I can't disprove the theory with my own experience.

So - if you have a colicy/fussy baby, did you also have a difficult or traumatic birth?

(I'll probably RP this tomorrow when there are more people around too, just FYI.)

fxz109 · April 2009

Define difficult or traumatic. w/o that defined, the answers won't mean much.

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Miss.Modular · April 2009

eminbmore:
While doing some research on colic, I read somewhere that there is a school of thought that says colic is related to birth trauma - that all the crying and fussing is a baby's way of reacting to a traumatic birth.
I kinda think this is a load of BS, but my baby is colicy/fussy and we had a fairly traumatic birth, so I can't disprove the theory with my own experience.
So - if you have a colicy/fussy baby, did you also have a difficult or traumatic birth?
(I'll probably RP this tomorrow when there are more people around too, just FYI.)

oh man oh man. THIS is going to be good!

nikinoodles · April 2009

Oddly enough with DD#1, she was born by emergency C-section. My placenta tore after 40 hrs of labor and I hemoraged...she was VERY fussy and Colicy until she was about 4 months old.

DS was born by scheduled C-Section. Everything was planned, quiet, and very uneventful. He is SO different then DD. He sleeps a lot, is content and quiet...a much easier newborn compaired to her.

Probably just a fluke..but it proves to be true for us. Although, I too have a hard time believing it.

eminbmore · April 2009

fxz109:
Define difficult or traumatic. w/o that defined, the answers won't mean much.

I don't know. I didn't write the article that used the term, so I can't be sure what they meant. Traumatic for me was an unresponsive baby who had to be revived by the NICU team, but I'm not sure if that is specifically what they were referring to.

And I'm hoping this'll be interesting Mod. You throw around the term "traumatic" and it's a guaranteed good time :-P

disbride061103 · April 2009

Miss.Modular:
eminbmore:
While doing some research on colic, I read somewhere that there is a school of thought that says colic is related to birth trauma - that all the crying and fussing is a baby's way of reacting to a traumatic birth.
I kinda think this is a load of BS, but my baby is colicy/fussy and we had a fairly traumatic birth, so I can't disprove the theory with my own experience.
So - if you have a colicy/fussy baby, did you also have a difficult or traumatic birth?
(I'll probably RP this tomorrow when there are more people around too, just FYI.)

oh man oh man. THIS is going to be good!

I'm not going to have access to a computer tomorrow! I'm going to miss the drama!

Seriously though, I just don't buy into that theory. My niece was very colicy and my SIL did not have a traumatic or difficult birth.

Mrs.Hizzo · April 2009

I think it sounds like a bunch of hooey, personally, BUT...DS #1 was very colicky, and he had a vacuum birth then spent 4 days in the NICU because of fluid in his lungs. Don't know if that's considered "traumatic" or not.

fxz109 · April 2009

If this were the case, it seems like it would be a pretty obvious cause to a "condition" that I continually read about as having no readibly identifiable cause.

eminbmore · April 2009

Oh - and it was the Wikipedia article that made the connection.

"'colic' or excessive crying is possibly the infants innate healing mechanism helping them to recover from birth trauma or other past or current stress "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_colic

TARAnj · April 2009

now see..I had a super easy birth experience and my lo is super colic

dawnzer · April 2009

I think it is interesting, but I don't know if I buy into it either. ?My sister had a very non-tramatic birth (breech baby, planned c-section) and had THE most colicky baby I have ever seen (she is a really sweet 6 yo now though).

And although I wouldn't say we had a traumatic?birth, ?DD was partially turned due to a full knot in her cord that slowed her heart rate every time I pushed. ?We kinda rushed the pushing so I could get her out without resorting to?forceps?(they didn't know at that point why her HR was dropping), and she ended up with a pretty big hematoma on her scalp that kept her jaundiced for over 2 months until it finally calcified (it was too big for all the blood to be absorbed, so she still has a lump).

And DD is so NOT fussy, my sister said she might even consider having another if she knew it would be just like Sarah (and not another super colicky baby like my niece was). ?She is a super happy baby.?

melisjt1979 · April 2009

I don't believe that for a minute. I had a very pleasant labor and my baby is fussy. My Dr. told us he has reflux, but that it was also what they called 'colic' back in the day. It is very common for babies to have reflux and they will eventually grow out of it.

Mxbabygal · April 2009

I was in labor for 20hrs, pushed for three hrs and finally the doctor tried to vaccum him out as a last resort. So i had to have a emercany C- section and they had to push him back up to get him out. All ?i know is after all that he isn't colic or anything. But hey i guess to some thats not to tramatic.?