almost at my breaking point

[lyss]

Me and my fiance tryed for two years to have a baby. 3 miscarriages later I was finally pregnant with my son. My My pregnancy was pretty normal with no complications. When my son was born I was overwhelmed with happiness! A day after he was born emotions hit me hard. I was very depressed and his father barely helped me at all. Once we came home from the hospital it got even worst. My fiance works 6 days a week and 12-13 hour days and my son began screaming all the time!I took him to the doctors constantly until they figured out that he has acid reflux and colic. I have tried everything that you can possibly think of and it does not work! Its really started to wear on me. Its making me such a bitter person. I hate when I see friends on Facebook post about how their baby is so great or how they are so happy with there bab because I dont feel that way. I love my son to death but it drives me crazy that I cant enjoy him like other mothers can. Im a stay at home mom and im with him 24/7 it seems like I just cant catch a break....

[ariasmom]

Omg I know EXACTLY how you feel. Everything you wrote really is pretty much exactly what I want to say but no one understands. Especially the part of seeing other happy moms on facebook. Some people just really have no idea how difficult colic is and how isolated it makes you feel. There isn't much talk of it anywhere. But there are more of us out there at least we have that.

[lyss]

Every one I talk to never uunderstands! They all think that im just complaining! I love my son but he drives me crazy and it's such a lonely place to be.

[ashley]

Hello my name is Ashley, I have a little boy who will be five months in the next two days. We have been battling colic since 3 weeks of age! I am at my breaking point with all the crying ...:-( my husband and I have been living in Germany for his job since Greyson was 2 months old. Before we came here we struggled with him crying constantly and nursing every hour. He Is exclusively breastfed baby. When we were in the states if tried all kinds of meds and nothing worked. Dr gave us different things to try and nothing worked for my poor baby. Now we are in Germany and he was seen by a Dr who didn't speak English . I translated what was going on and questions I needed to be answered. She just told me I need to eat rice , chicken and things and no chocolate. She have me medicine for his stomach which tasted like straight ribbon alcohol( which I didn't know until I tasted after he would reject it) So I found another dr who spoke english ( finally) he said Greyson was colic. Also he noticed that he couldn't move his left arm higher than the right. He did chiropractic adjustments for babies. After that I didn't see a change, three days later goes by and the Dr came by and adjusted one side again. A couple of days went by and he did better. I have tired every gas medicine you can think of. Mostly homeopathic ones. He still nurses every hour. Won't take a bottle, the dr said to start him on cereal .... Trying that still not liking it. I can't pump very much or any at all bc he nurses me all the time. He is sleeping in our bed bc it the only way I can sleep. I find myself every day looking up ways to make things better and it's driving me crazy. I have also took out all dairy out of m diet bc he was so fussy.... I don't know what else I can do. I can't even put him down during the day with out him crying. The mornings he will sit alone for 20-30 mins and that's when I'm running around trying to pick up the house do the dishes and do laundry. Anyone have any advice??

[ariasmom]

Ashley, please read my post on the thread "Do you promise colic really ends", if you haven't read it already. I also did elimination diet and only ate rice and chicken for a while. Didn't work. Also had my kid on zantac, didn't work much. I did EVERYTHING too. Hang in there! Next thing you know you will have a one year old and all this will be in the past. You may NEVER forget how hard it was, but YOU ARE NOT ALONE. We need more support groups, people need to talk about this more. Its really a lonely place to be.
I read all kinds of books, what a joke all those were. Also, if your baby is sleeping in the bed with you, then just do it DO NOT WORRY about it. My baby wouldn't even sleep in the bed with me. I don't even know how I survived the first four months. My baby NEVER slept. I mean not even more than an hour at a time, it was insane! She was also Exclusively breast fed but I don't think her being hungry or rice cerial helped at all. Literally, it's their personality. Some babies just chill, if something is bothering them they just sit there. Others, like ours, scream like crazy is they feel the least bit uncomfortable and while their stomachs are still bothering them they just have to grow out of whatever it is. God the sound of our babies crying, does something to our brains doesn't it. Get ear plugs, and just let him cry a bit if nothing else works. He is not gonna die, and you need to take a breath! There will be better days to come.

[Ftm]

I'm part of a high needs support group. Best thing ever! Check it out ladies! Add Becky kallen to Facebook and ask her to add you to the group! If you don't know what high needs is, look it up! It describes the personality of our babies:)

[raylene58]

Alls I can say is I have been there. It just ends on its own, see my other posts. At just after 4 months he snapped out of it overnight, parlty because I think he was coming into his own. It does get better!1 It will happen.