Facts and Fallacy About Colic
Often parents are misconcepted about their colicky babies. Here are some facts that will help them understand this situation better.
Myth – Colicky babies grow up to be unhappy kids.
Fact – Colic is not any baby’s personality trait. Once the colic stage of your baby is gone, your child can have a completely different personality- spunky, crabby and sensitive.
Myth – Your new-parent anxiety is making your baby cry.
Fact – Babies cannot smell your anxiety. What they can pick up on: body temperature and how relaxed you are- or aren’t. When you are anxious, you often jump from one thing to another because you are uncertain, and this is what they can sense.
Myth – Colic results from overstimulation.
Fact – Colicky babies cry because they miss all the noise and stimulation they got in the womb. If you take them to a noisy basketball game, they usually go to sleep. For this reason, doctors often recommend music therapy to soothe the baby.
Myth – Medications can relieve colic.
Fact – Some parents think that diphenhydramine, an antihistamine also sold as a sleep aid, will help calm tears. But it makes some babies cry more. Reflux medicines also don’t help often – only about 2 percent of colicky babies have the type that warrants medicine. Doctors know better, but under parental pressure they often medicate these babies.
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nutuba | Dec 19, 2008 | Reply
Absolutely right. Nice post.