Post by italiatanyag on Feb 11, 2014 20:18:01 GMT -5
I am a new member to this group and while reading all of the posts, I feel like I like with each and every one of you! My daughter, Ava is my third child. Her two siblings (Jordan is 12 and Mia is 3) were perfect babies. Never a peep!!! Ava on the other hand is different. Ava will be 12 weeks old on Friday...she has had problems since she was born. We started with a formula issue while in the hospital..Ava was started on Similac Advanced and it was too much for her belly, very gassy...she was switched to Enfamily Gentlease ...this gave her poor belly diarrhea ...she also was born with a horrible yeast infection on her behind...no one knew this was a yeast infection immediately, and it wasn't until it ate up her behind and she ended up with thrush in her mouth, did the docs realize it was yeast...she then were switched to Enfamil Prosobee, bc of the diarrhea...this was even worse!!! It was around this time that our colic started.
At first, she would scream for hours!!! One night, the screaming lasted 7 hours...my husband and I didn't know what to do to make her stop...we finally resorted to the car seat and left her in it all night long. This went on for weeks....from 3 weeks old until 7 weeks old the screaming wouldn't stop...we tried everything...gripe water, gas drops, colic calm, probiotics, swing, sound machines, you name it! It was horrific....we then switched formulas again...Similac Sensitive worked for a while...she began to gain weight...seemed a little bit better...we were hopeful...but that was short lived...she began having horrible gas pains...arching her back, screaming again...she then was put on Nutramigen...and after a few days stopped eating...we took her to the ER; Ava has an umbilical hernia, and we thought maybe the pain was being caused by the hernia...but the ER staff said nope, this is very common and it should heal itself within the first year!!! The PA we saw at the ER basically told us to just feed her and she will be fine..then proceeded to give us a bottle of Enfamil Infant formula. That formula last a few weeks until she started all over again...So, Alimentum was next...didn't do a whole lot of anything, except give her more gas... so, the only thing left to try was Gerber Soothe...we had three perfect days once we made the switch...she was calm, happy, slept better...it was wonderful...but now, we are right back where we started again!!! Don't get me wrong, the screaming has diminished...instead of hours of crying at one time (which was usually at night) she now cries throughout the day, but we know ways to intervene that calms her down...she only sleeps 3-4 hours during the night, wakes to feed, and like clockwork she is up again..some mornings she wont go back down and 4am we are up and at it again!
I am a college professor and have the semester off, so I am home with the baby and the 3 year old ALL DAY LONG!!! My husband is wonderful and takes over when he gets home but sometimes that isn't until 5-6 pm. I feel like I am losing my mind...all I do is research this d**n colic and hope that my baby is one of the lucky ones and it ends soon!! I have become depressed, lost interest in just about everything...I get high anxiety when I hear her make any peep....I hate feeling like this...this is not my first baby...I know what to do, but have no idea why I cant make it all go away. I feel resentful..miserable..I don't want to truly say how I feel bc it sounds horrible coming out of my mouth! I have never felt this way about my children...please, give me some hope...tell me it will get better...share some positive experiences...I just don't know what else to do!
At first, she would scream for hours!!! One night, the screaming lasted 7 hours...my husband and I didn't know what to do to make her stop...we finally resorted to the car seat and left her in it all night long. This went on for weeks....from 3 weeks old until 7 weeks old the screaming wouldn't stop...we tried everything...gripe water, gas drops, colic calm, probiotics, swing, sound machines, you name it! It was horrific....we then switched formulas again...Similac Sensitive worked for a while...she began to gain weight...seemed a little bit better...we were hopeful...but that was short lived...she began having horrible gas pains...arching her back, screaming again...she then was put on Nutramigen...and after a few days stopped eating...we took her to the ER; Ava has an umbilical hernia, and we thought maybe the pain was being caused by the hernia...but the ER staff said nope, this is very common and it should heal itself within the first year!!! The PA we saw at the ER basically told us to just feed her and she will be fine..then proceeded to give us a bottle of Enfamil Infant formula. That formula last a few weeks until she started all over again...So, Alimentum was next...didn't do a whole lot of anything, except give her more gas... so, the only thing left to try was Gerber Soothe...we had three perfect days once we made the switch...she was calm, happy, slept better...it was wonderful...but now, we are right back where we started again!!! Don't get me wrong, the screaming has diminished...instead of hours of crying at one time (which was usually at night) she now cries throughout the day, but we know ways to intervene that calms her down...she only sleeps 3-4 hours during the night, wakes to feed, and like clockwork she is up again..some mornings she wont go back down and 4am we are up and at it again!
I am a college professor and have the semester off, so I am home with the baby and the 3 year old ALL DAY LONG!!! My husband is wonderful and takes over when he gets home but sometimes that isn't until 5-6 pm. I feel like I am losing my mind...all I do is research this d**n colic and hope that my baby is one of the lucky ones and it ends soon!! I have become depressed, lost interest in just about everything...I get high anxiety when I hear her make any peep....I hate feeling like this...this is not my first baby...I know what to do, but have no idea why I cant make it all go away. I feel resentful..miserable..I don't want to truly say how I feel bc it sounds horrible coming out of my mouth! I have never felt this way about my children...please, give me some hope...tell me it will get better...share some positive experiences...I just don't know what else to do!