colic?

When your baby is either sleeping, screaming or eating, does he have colic? Baby Doodle has taken to skipping the little whimpers and mild crying sounds and going straight to the toe curling screams whenever he is awake and not on my breast. This means he cries for at least 4 hours a day. He is calmable but it takes a while to take him down from the frenzy he works himself into, and then it takes even longer to get him to sleep. He does respond to music and dancing, especially to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Drive My Car, Back in the USSR and Baby Beluga (which one of these is not like the others?).

Last night he screamed from 11:30 pm to 1:00 am, when he finally fell asleep. Then he was up at 2:30 am to eat again, and the cycle was repeated. I had gotten about 2 hours of sleep when he woke up at 6:30 am for his first breakfast. Mr. Doodlebug took him downstairs so I could sleep some. He had his second breakfast at 8:30 am then I went back to sleep until 11:00 am. When Mr. Doodlebug is not here it will be impossible for me to get sleep in the mornings the way I did today.

At first we thought Baby Doodle had heartburn because last night he seemed to scream and cry after he burped. But this morning he has burped a number of times after his numerous feedings and did not start to cry until at least a half hour later.

It's depressing and disheartening when he screams and carries on because it seems that he has such a sad existence. He doesn't seem happy unless he's eating or sleeping. It would be nice if he spent some of the day awake and content, but those moments are fleeting and few. "They" say colic usually starts around 2 weeks and doesn't subside until about 3 months. Baby Doodle is 3 weeks old today, and three months seems like a lifetime from now, especially when it seems like he's been here for three years already.

I can only hope that he will outgrow his colic sooner than July.















Just about to eat and therefore not crying.