Coping with Colicky Babies

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Coping with Colicky Babies

Experience of Jyoti and Samir

Jyoti and her husband Samir had never heard of colic until their baby was born. Recalls Jyoti, �The crying started when Suraj was about three weeks old, and went from 7 in the morning until 11 at night. I was nursing him, so the doctor suggested eliminating foods � starting with wheat and dairy products � but nothing helped. I took him to the pediatrician convinced that something was terribly wrong with him. �Suraj has colic,�� I was told. �You have my sympathy. There�s nothing worse,� he said.

Jyoti tried everything to comfort him, but nothing worked for more than a little while. She, however, ended up smoking again, years after she had quit.

�I was a mess,� Jyoti admits. �I hated Suraj, but I fussed over him all the time. Samir really saved the day � he�d come home from work and take him from 5 to 11; I�d go for a walk and cry. But his strength also made me feel like a dopey little princess, unable to cope.�

Jyoti kept all of her feelings bottled up until, one day, Shalini a friend whose daughter had been colicky, called and said, �Doesn�t it stink?� The dam burst, �I told her everything,� says Jyoti, �and she told me that when her daughter was little, her husband had had to bathe her because Shalini was afraid she�d drown her just to stop the noise. Shalini even came to my apartment, cleaned it, took the baby and listened to me complain.�

With her friend�s help, Jyoti found her strength, and realized she could get through it.

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