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January 14, 2007, 11:31 am PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

I had that problem with my son and finally a doctor diagnosed him with a rotating bowel. He had the problem until he was almost a teen. It was then he finally learned to relax and let things happen that his bowel problem got better.

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January 14, 2007, 1:33 pm PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

Personally, I would get a second opinion from another Doctor, they do miss things and they are human. I had a colicky baby, okay granted that was a long time ago, but he didn't have problems moving his bowels, it could be something simple like constipation, but ( and not to scare you ) it could be an underlying condition that can be treated, the pain could be making it hard for her to sleep on her own.

Babies should not be started on solids before six months ( so I'm told by frinds with young babies) did your Doctor or a relative suggest it ? I'm not trying to be critical, just maybe helping you think of other maybe causes.

But if you do decide to get another opinion, make a list of symptoms to take with you, and a list of questions to ask, I say make a list because we do forget things, and a good Doctor will listen to your concerns.

Good Luck.

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January 14, 2007, 1:53 pm PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

I am a mother of 2 babyface girls ages 1 and 2.5. My 1st daughter was a REALLY "tough" baby, she cried all the time and needed constant attention. My husband and I learned when she was about 4 or 5 mns old the 5 S's rule by Dr. Harvey Karp, M.D. He was on Dr. Phil in 2005. he wrote the book "The Happiest baby on the block" We now call the book"Our baby Bible" We started right away @ the 5 S's: 1-Swaddling 2- Side/Stomach 3-SHHHHHH 4-Swinging 5-Sucking. We also started to use her crib and not our bed @ this time too! We put thick towels over her bedroom widows so it would be completely dark all of the time, that way she new it was time to sleep, We found a old police scanner that was perfect for white noice(#3) it sounded like a fuzzy channel on the T.V. We would swaddle her in a really big recieving blaket, everytime it was time to go for a sleep, then we would turn on the white noice machine, turn out the lights and rock with her while she nursed and when she was older while she drank her bottle!!

This worked like nothing I have ever seen or heard of before, ohh yeah BTW I am a daycare teacher!! this lasted until she was about 10mns old. WE graduly weaned out the white noice for the radio and slowly started to swaddle her with one arm out, then two arms out then not swaddling her at all!! We have had no sleep problems with her at all, she sleeps all night and had a great nap during the day!!

I truly belieave in my"baby Bible" so much so that i know i can calm a crying baby in less then 3min. I have also loaned out my"baby Bible" to three of my girlfriends who have had babies, and they followed the same "rules" and also said that it worked great for them!

I hope this helps........and if you can go and buy or borrow the book, you won't be sorry you did!!

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January 14, 2007, 10:20 pm PST

I have a four month old and a two year old, I understand!

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

I agree with you, a lot more needs to be looked at. I have two little ones, a 4 month old and a 2 year old. I know my baby's doctor told me not to feed any rice cereral until 6 months old and even then still check back with the doctor first, it will consipate a baby. I have had a lot of dealings with baby gas. Make sure you are burping your baby after a bottle, it does not take much , at four months just putting her up on your shoulder with your other hand supporting her back to your chest and slowly walking thru the house produces some great burps! Just watch for the spit up with a bit of it and have a towel over your shoulder. The white noise i have heard is good for babies,its similar to womb noise, I have used and use a air purifier, they have a fan (of course) and make a good white noise for the baby, they can be found very inexpensive at wal-mart. My doctor told me that a humidifer will give a baby post nasal drip after alot of usage. Best of luck and I hope everything gets better

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January 14, 2007, 11:17 pm PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

Are you breastfeeding? If not and your little one is on formula, the formula could be causing constipation which causes very painful bowel movements. My younger sister's little girl would SCREAM when having a bowel movement because her stools were so hard. Sometimes my sister would have to help her get the stool out by pushing her legs back and up. Formula is very heavy on the iron and the iron can be very constipating. Rice cereal also has a lot of iron in it so that probably would not be a good idea to feed rice cereal. Also, due to leaky gut, one should wait on solids until six months old though some doctors will okay it sooner (especially in formula fed babies). If the baby is breast-fed, then the other person's suggestion could very well be correct. But if you are formula feeding and you are thinking of having another child, you might want to consider breast-feeding if you are able to. Because it is possible that if one child has issues with formula, the other children will as well as my sister found out with her children. Her second child had even worse problems than her first because not only did she have the painful bowl-movements, she also constantly threw up. Just something to consider! I breastfeed my little one so I'm well versed on the benefits of breastmilk. I understand too that there are those who are just not able to; it's certainly not easy at all as I found out myself.

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January 15, 2007, 6:13 am PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

I've been thinking about your problem and have you tried goat's milk? Sometimes the baby has a Lactose intolerance and can't digest cow's milk. Maybe she needs another couple of months of breastfeeding/goat's milk before you introduce solid foods. Many pediatricians want you to wait until 6 months before you introduce solid foods. I'd probably get nutrition advice from another pediatrician. A lot of times it's the food they eat that causes problems.

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January 16, 2007, 11:42 am PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

My oldest son had problems like this (he was breast-fed exclusely for his first 6 mos. and then I had to supplement with formula. That's when the problems started...until I put him on Carnation Good Start which was more easily digetsed.. you may want to try this.

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January 16, 2007, 12:35 pm PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

In addition to goat's milk, you could try Soy milk formulas and use Lactase drops to help with the Lactose intolerance, which causes the gassy colic.

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January 19, 2007, 11:06 am PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

My son is almost two but I understand what you are talking about. We had the same problem - we tried a number of different things one was 1/2 prune juice 1/2 water at bed time - if worked as long as he was on the bottle - but at 1 years old he was off the bottle and would not drink the juice. After going to a GI specialist because he was underweight and had such a hard time with bowel movements ( screaming, turning red and at time pushing so hard he would throw up) they placed him on glycolax a stool softner that is not habit forming. It has made a world of difference no more screaming - eats much better and is gaining weight. He had probelms with bowel movements and had a supposatory at 6 weeks old, so this was a ongoing problem.

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January 19, 2007, 1:44 pm PST

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I am a twenty year old mom of a beautiful 4 month old. It seems that she has always had problems since she was born. Here bowels are all messed up. She screams in pain for at least 5 minutes just to have a bowel movement. Her doctor keeps telling us that it is a form of colic. I think otherwise. She refuses to sleep in her own bed, or in the room by herself. She has to sleep with me with my hand on her chest the whole night or she gets all fussy wakes up and cries until I move her. She cant sleep in a room without noise. There has to be the humidifier going and the stereo before she even thinks about going to bed for even a nap. And one last thing...I have started her on rice cereal as of two and a half weeks ago. She seemed to do really good on it but now she can only have a certain amount because it hurts her tummy and goes into the problem with her bowels. What can I do?

This sounds like a food alergy to me. Talk to your doctor and do what they said on the show. Tell him/her you won't leave till you get answers. If they won't help go to someone else.

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