Have you ever heard of the infamous gaseous colic baby? Well, if you're in the number of "lucky" parents who have met him in person, you have our full support! Even to us, in fact, happened to having to do when our little one was born almost a year and a half ago now ...
still remember the first months of life of Alessandra with much joy, of course, but also as one of the most challenging times of our adventure of parents and couples, precisely because of the odious colic.
Ma cosa sono le coliche del neonato?? Cito da un recente studio farmacologico datato 2008: "La colica è definita come un attacco di pianto da evidente dolore addominale dei primi mesi dell'infanzia (dalle prime settimane ai primi sei mesi di vita circa) . Si tratta di una condizione comune caratterizzata da estesi e ripetuti periodi di pianto. Un lattante colicoso può avere sintomi che comprendono: pianto eccessivo, uno strillare con tonalità alta, un 'irritabilità e a 'paroxysmal agitation, her face flushed the pull up his legs, arching the back, clenching his fists, the expulsion of air, feeling rigid abdomen and the difficulty of finding a position . These episodes, although they may happen at any time of day or night, typically begin in late afternoon or early evening .
E 'must then that the baby , To be called colicky, "is gaining weight regularly and is in good health" (source: allattiamo.it -colic).
So it's episodes of crying intensity particularly violent, with specific characteristics including abdominal rigidity and retraction of the legs, which manifest themselves with some regularity in the evening . Already, in the evening ... When the pediatrician diagnosed it, with the typical detachment of a doctor who has seen many, many, inconsolable crying that our daughter was none other than the most eloquent expression of the colic baby, we felt a bit 'powerless. Especially because, according to the same doctor, such colic were IRREPARABLE : Sure, we could mitigate the evil of our smaller with goccine of Simethicone she laid down, but we could not eliminate them, would go away by themselves to up in a few months ... Maybe you!
The prospect of not encouraging a few more months of desperate cries at night and up early certainly helped us not to be optimistic ... What was most discouraging was that resignation we commiserate with others who turned to us, "so there's nothing to do, it happens, then will pass by itself when the child will grow! "
Indeed colic neonatal still remain a mystery for medical and scientific research : For years it was debated on causes of this disorder of infants, particularly was assumed to be due to the presence of gas within the gut , generally due to ' ingestion of air entering the bottle in bottle fed babies, or the mother's diet that breastfeeding , too rich in foods that "ferment" ( Dr. Paul.com ).
About the breastfed infants, there is a study of Jack Newman that takes into account several factors:
- children can be breastfed colicky as drinking at each feeding by both breasts, and this behavior is wrong because, by offering the child the other breast without waiting for the empty well before, it lacks the fattest part of milk and therefore richer in substance. In this way, " the stomach empties more quickly and a large amount of lactose in the intestine pours" , creating the famous "air";
- the 'power of nursing mother may be rich in certain proteins (especially milk proteins) , which then passed into the milk that is given to small, can have negative effects;
- sometimes breast-fed infant may be mistaken for colicky, when in fact suffering from a milk-ejection reflex too strong (milk comes out very violently, then suddenly slowing down the flow: this generates anger and frustration child, protesting as though he had colic)
Another possible explanation, more recently, brings up the central nervous s ystem and his immaturity in the newborn : there is a certain hypersensitivity to external stimuli, which would not be able to be managed properly by the brain, not yet ready for this task ( keep kids healthy. com).
But there is also a new way of looking at the phenomenon colic, a typical approach the child certainly more holistic and natural , according to which these NOT EXIST, would be a kind of short myth! (See colic, there are no gas-UPPA ). In fact, According to this line of thought, colic " is nothing more than the sum of many small problems and inconveniences that are" crying babies " : no tears due to air in the tummy (unless it is colitis), inter alia, the presence of air in the digestive tract of the infant is normal, given the diet based on milk (lactose, the main sugar of milk, ferments easily), nothing improper power of the poor mother .. . A colicky baby is so called because " maybe you are angry, because you have not picked up (or) maybe is still shocked because he had a difficult birth, magari vuole dare l'opportunità a voi di sfogare le vostre emozioni e piange perché non ha nessun altro strumento a disposizione" (cfr. Bimbo Naturale ) Insomma, è normale che un neonato pianga, le cause possono essere molteplici, non dimentichiamo che per nove mesi è stato cullato nel caldo grembo materno, e tutt'a un tratto è stato sbalzato fuori...
La soluzione?? Armarsi di tanta pazienza, e rassicurare il piccolo, che per stare meglio non ha certo bisogno di essere portato di corsa al Pronto Soccorso per ricevere il trattamento col sondino anale!
Well, read all this, however, helped to make us feel better! The not knowing WHAT to was due to the desperate cry of Ale (each time we rehearsed everything from massaggino on the tummy, the lullaby, the herbal tea-sic -, drops of Simethicone (clinically ineffective, as mentioned in study already mentioned) made us waver in our convictions firmer ... We gave also the famous tisanine, in fact, both parents champions of breastfeeding!
Among many attempts, certainly the most profitable was to use the infant carrier range : when we put our daughter in there, in a belly to belly, began to calm down ... Slowly, as if by magic, that incessant crying subsides ... We could not believe it, then it was all true what we read! Really helped the band brings babies to cope with colic, it was not just nice words!
The contact, the feeling of being contained , wrapped tight as her mother (also works with Dad, for luck), the revived probably a state of fusion similar to that experienced in belly for forty weeks, was a real balm for her and for us, ravaged by many sleepless nights!
one thing remains unclear: why, before joining the band, we have relied on traditional medicine, but also to the usual remedies already "tested" by others, almost every time hanging from the lips of the pediatrician, but even people who had already passed? Yet the band infant carrier was already at home , better placed in the closet, but ... Why not use it before?
The truth is that after a few tries to wear it with our small, We had almost lost hope of any future use: Alessandra not seem like it at all when trying to position (especially "cradle") were strong protests every time!
We thought that maybe she did not like, or perhaps does not wear well (too close?), Or more, the band was just a bluff, was not needed, in short, a waste of money!
Well, thank goodness that in the end we decided not to sell it more, that we held with us, because it turned out to fundamental ... Even today, more than ever, it is the gift that I recommend to all mothers to be do nothing but play the cradle, sterilizers, passeggini e vari!
Quando decidemmo di ripescare la fascia dall'armadio non risolvemmo solo il problema-coliche, iniziammo anche a vivere da genitori in maniera diversa ; per tutto il primo mese di vita della nostra bimba eravamo rimasti confinati accanto alla carrozzina e alla culla, vivevamo praticamente in camera da letto, accorrendo ogni volta che Ale piangeva (spesso!), trascurando il resto della casa...
La fascia in seguito al felice epilogo delle colichette è diventata nostra compagna di viaggio fedele, ci ha rassicurati e resi più sereni, noi e la piccolina. Con la fascia abbiamo fatto i lavori di casa , siamo out, we went to museums, parks, sea, mountains ... And while all this was happening, we felt stronger and less alone in walk the path of new parents who had frightened us so early!
And you? Have you experienced the range baby carrier with your children in the grip of colic? Tell us about your experience!
Happy babywearing everyone!
The prospect of not encouraging a few more months of desperate cries at night and up early certainly helped us not to be optimistic ... What was most discouraging was that resignation we commiserate with others who turned to us, "so there's nothing to do, it happens, then will pass by itself when the child will grow! "
Indeed colic neonatal still remain a mystery for medical and scientific research : For years it was debated on causes of this disorder of infants, particularly was assumed to be due to the presence of gas within the gut , generally due to ' ingestion of air entering the bottle in bottle fed babies, or the mother's diet that breastfeeding , too rich in foods that "ferment" ( Dr. Paul.com ).
About the breastfed infants, there is a study of Jack Newman that takes into account several factors:
- children can be breastfed colicky as drinking at each feeding by both breasts, and this behavior is wrong because, by offering the child the other breast without waiting for the empty well before, it lacks the fattest part of milk and therefore richer in substance. In this way, " the stomach empties more quickly and a large amount of lactose in the intestine pours" , creating the famous "air";
- the 'power of nursing mother may be rich in certain proteins (especially milk proteins) , which then passed into the milk that is given to small, can have negative effects;
- sometimes breast-fed infant may be mistaken for colicky, when in fact suffering from a milk-ejection reflex too strong (milk comes out very violently, then suddenly slowing down the flow: this generates anger and frustration child, protesting as though he had colic)
Another possible explanation, more recently, brings up the central nervous s ystem and his immaturity in the newborn : there is a certain hypersensitivity to external stimuli, which would not be able to be managed properly by the brain, not yet ready for this task ( keep kids healthy. com).
But there is also a new way of looking at the phenomenon colic, a typical approach the child certainly more holistic and natural , according to which these NOT EXIST, would be a kind of short myth! (See colic, there are no gas-UPPA ). In fact, According to this line of thought, colic " is nothing more than the sum of many small problems and inconveniences that are" crying babies " : no tears due to air in the tummy (unless it is colitis), inter alia, the presence of air in the digestive tract of the infant is normal, given the diet based on milk (lactose, the main sugar of milk, ferments easily), nothing improper power of the poor mother .. . A colicky baby is so called because " maybe you are angry, because you have not picked up (or) maybe is still shocked because he had a difficult birth, magari vuole dare l'opportunità a voi di sfogare le vostre emozioni e piange perché non ha nessun altro strumento a disposizione" (cfr. Bimbo Naturale ) Insomma, è normale che un neonato pianga, le cause possono essere molteplici, non dimentichiamo che per nove mesi è stato cullato nel caldo grembo materno, e tutt'a un tratto è stato sbalzato fuori...
La soluzione?? Armarsi di tanta pazienza, e rassicurare il piccolo, che per stare meglio non ha certo bisogno di essere portato di corsa al Pronto Soccorso per ricevere il trattamento col sondino anale!
Well, read all this, however, helped to make us feel better! The not knowing WHAT to was due to the desperate cry of Ale (each time we rehearsed everything from massaggino on the tummy, the lullaby, the herbal tea-sic -, drops of Simethicone (clinically ineffective, as mentioned in study already mentioned) made us waver in our convictions firmer ... We gave also the famous tisanine, in fact, both parents champions of breastfeeding!
Among many attempts, certainly the most profitable was to use the infant carrier range : when we put our daughter in there, in a belly to belly, began to calm down ... Slowly, as if by magic, that incessant crying subsides ... We could not believe it, then it was all true what we read! Really helped the band brings babies to cope with colic, it was not just nice words!
The contact, the feeling of being contained , wrapped tight as her mother (also works with Dad, for luck), the revived probably a state of fusion similar to that experienced in belly for forty weeks, was a real balm for her and for us, ravaged by many sleepless nights!
one thing remains unclear: why, before joining the band, we have relied on traditional medicine, but also to the usual remedies already "tested" by others, almost every time hanging from the lips of the pediatrician, but even people who had already passed? Yet the band infant carrier was already at home , better placed in the closet, but ... Why not use it before?
The truth is that after a few tries to wear it with our small, We had almost lost hope of any future use: Alessandra not seem like it at all when trying to position (especially "cradle") were strong protests every time!
We thought that maybe she did not like, or perhaps does not wear well (too close?), Or more, the band was just a bluff, was not needed, in short, a waste of money!
Well, thank goodness that in the end we decided not to sell it more, that we held with us, because it turned out to fundamental ... Even today, more than ever, it is the gift that I recommend to all mothers to be do nothing but play the cradle, sterilizers, passeggini e vari!
Quando decidemmo di ripescare la fascia dall'armadio non risolvemmo solo il problema-coliche, iniziammo anche a vivere da genitori in maniera diversa ; per tutto il primo mese di vita della nostra bimba eravamo rimasti confinati accanto alla carrozzina e alla culla, vivevamo praticamente in camera da letto, accorrendo ogni volta che Ale piangeva (spesso!), trascurando il resto della casa...
La fascia in seguito al felice epilogo delle colichette è diventata nostra compagna di viaggio fedele, ci ha rassicurati e resi più sereni, noi e la piccolina. Con la fascia abbiamo fatto i lavori di casa , siamo out, we went to museums, parks, sea, mountains ... And while all this was happening, we felt stronger and less alone in walk the path of new parents who had frightened us so early!
And you? Have you experienced the range baby carrier with your children in the grip of colic? Tell us about your experience!
Happy babywearing everyone!
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