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Could it be Colic?
Could it be Colic? When your new baby won’t settle, the combination of a crying baby and lack of sleep can lead any new mum to believe they must be doing something wrong. Colic is defined as repeated episodes of excessive and inconsolable crying in a newborn baby which otherwise appears to be perfectly healthy.…
Posted in Baby, Baby Health, Newborn baby Tagged Baby, Baby colic, Colic, colic symptoms, Colief Infant Drops, Crying, newborn baby Leave a comment
Manipulative therapies may be a beneficial treatment for infantile colic
Infantile colic is a distressing problem, characterised by excessive crying of infants and it is the most common complaint seen by physicians in the first 16 weeks of a child’s life. A Cochrane review of studies into manipulative therapies for colic, by the University of Southampton, suggests that the treatment technique may be of some…
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Win 1 of 5 copies of the Essential Baby Care Guide. The UK’s first and only visual baby manual brought to you by the award winning directors from The Essential Parent Company. Lots of practical advice that’s easier to see than read in a book. From top experts, helping you with Breastfeeding, Formula Feeding, Introducing…
Homeopathic remedies – Colic
For babies, tablets should be crushed between two clean teaspoons and dissolved in 2fl oz of warm water, giving a teaspoon full as a dose. For young children, the tablets should be given crushed. Chamomilla is available in drop form. Sharp abdominal pain which can cause babies great distress. In breast-fed babies, colic can be…
Question: Baby crying during feeding
Q: “My daughter is 10 weeks old and cries half way through each feed. She becomes very distressed and is very hard to calm down. She has being doing this for five weeks. My health visitor put her on soya milk which helped for a couple of weeks but the problem has now started again. She…
Posted in Baby, Breastfeeding, Question & Answer Tagged Baby bottle, Baby colic, bottle feeding, Colic, Feeding your baby Leave a comment
Baby massage
When your baby was born, one of the first things you did was to touch him. Perhaps he was born onto your stomach, or brought straight into your arms. Even if he was whisked off for tests or to Special Care, you probably stole a few precious seconds to stroke his face, or hold his…
Posted in Baby, Baby Care Tagged Baby, baby massage, bonding, Colic, Maternal bond, premature, Relaxation, skin to skin contact Leave a comment
Why is your baby crying?
Babies cry on average for one and a half to two hours daily, so you have to remember that crying is normal. A baby can only communicate in a few basic ways, and crying is his foremost communication tool. In the early weeks he is completely helpless and the only language he knows to get you to respond…
Colic
If you have eliminated all other possibilities and your baby is still crying constantly, particularly during the evening, he may be suffering from colic. This is a common cause of crying, and is very distressing for parents and babies. The baby screams as if in pain, goes red in the face and sometimes pulls his…
Newborn baby sleep patterns
Newborn babies sleep a lot. But they follow a little-and-often, never-at-the-same-time-twice schedule. So although the average newborn baby has about 16 hours sleep in every 24, he is likely to do it in bouts of two, three or four hours throughout the night and day. As babies grow they need less sleep and take more of…
Posted in Baby Care, Baby routines, Newborn baby, Sleep Tagged baby routines, Co-sleeping, Colic, Sleep, Sleeping Methods Leave a comment
Homeopathic remedies for babies and children
It is becoming common place now, for parents to turn to homeopathy as a natural form of treatment for common childhood ailments. And it is a growing trend, proving particularly useful for young children and in pregnancy, where pharmaceutical drugs are often unsafe. The remedies are not toxic, and can even be used on newborn…
Posted in Baby Health, Teething Tagged chicken pox, Colic, first aid, Homeopathic, homeopathy, Sleep disorders, Teething, treatment Leave a comment
