It's most likely gas. Just keep walking with the baby draped and patting on the back. Or sit with baby over knees and try back massage. Or sit with baby draped over your hand and try patting with other hand. Eventually the gas bubble will move. Then try to figure out what you ate that's giving the nublett gas.
Thankfully, as they grow, they get big enough finally for the gas to not be such a problem. Instead of the bubbles blocking the intestine, they move through more freely and instead you just get sound effects.
If it's not gas, but rather the whole 'colicy baby' thing, then all I can say is it seems to pass once they reach three months of age, it's not your fault, and hang in there. The smiles will make it worth it.
This is definitely one of the great Mysteries. What's sad is that not even all the folk who become mothers get it.
Don't forget to take pictures! Babies change so much from week to week. You need to take lots.
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Date: 2003-10-31 05:01 am (UTC)It's most likely gas. Just keep walking with the baby draped and patting on the back. Or sit with baby over knees and try back massage. Or sit with baby draped over your hand and try patting with other hand. Eventually the gas bubble will move. Then try to figure out what you ate that's giving the nublett gas.
Thankfully, as they grow, they get big enough finally for the gas to not be such a problem. Instead of the bubbles blocking the intestine, they move through more freely and instead you just get sound effects.
If it's not gas, but rather the whole 'colicy baby' thing, then all I can say is it seems to pass once they reach three months of age, it's not your fault, and hang in there. The smiles will make it worth it.
This is definitely one of the great Mysteries. What's sad is that not even all the folk who become mothers get it.
Don't forget to take pictures! Babies change so much from week to week. You need to take lots.