Baby Colic Almost Killed Me

My lovely baby has been suffering for colic problem since she was born 3 months ago. Whenever her colic problem occurs, she cries and cries and cries… I, as a first time mother, cries whenever she cries painfully and for long period. The mental pain that I have gone through has almost killed me, to the extend that I always pray to the God to allow me taking over all the pain from my baby. It has really driven me crazy… My family and I have been trying all kind of stuffs to make her feel better, including getting doctor’s treatment frequently. Finally, she is getting better now (one time of colic pain in few days period) as compared to last time (few times of colic pain per day). Thanks to all kind of curing stuffs/ methods that we have been using. Among all, I think some of the effective methods are:- 

1. Take the chinese herbal medicine – “boh yin ton” at frequent basis.
2. Use the proper anti-colic bottle – Dr Brown’s Bottle. (A fantastic system that really helps in reducing the air intake during bottle feeding…)
3. Proper feeding and burping techniques.
4. Apply external chinese medicine – “yun yi oil” onto her stomach and abdomen. Rub few drops of oil with both my hands until my hands feels warm/ hot, and then place the hands onto the baby’s stomach and abdomen. Repeat few times.
5. Let her body lying down on my chest in a facing down position. This will make her stomach & abdomen feeling warm and hence feeling better.

As advised by the paediatrician, baby’s colic problem is quite common and usually will recover after 4 to 5 months old. However, I don’t think any parent or any mother could stand seeing the little one crying painfully and furthermore at such a frequent occurrence, e.g. at least few times of painful cry in one day.

Thus, we are trying all sorts of stuff just to make her feel better, and I wish to share the above here and hoping that it will help someone someday…

Carmen Tham,
Founder of www.1babylink.com