Colic Symptoms To Look For in Your Baby

It’s over two weeks and you have slowly adjusted to your baby night-waking habit, but now comes the shock of colic. Yes, colic is a state that is often taken as a surprise by the new parents who are not aware of the reasons of why their baby keeps crying between 3 to 5 months of age.

Perhaps, this is where we say that it is important to know the key symptoms to lookout whether your child is crying due to colic or not. So, look for these key symptoms and judge whether your child has colic and then be ready to soothe him.

Different And Constant Cry

The first and the foremost symptom of recognizing a colic baby is to see how he cries. Unlike normal cries, a colicky baby cries constantly, considerably and consistently. If you watch out for these three C’s in your baby cries, then your baby is colicky.

• Colicky babies often cry for up to 3 hours.
• In severe cases, babies cry for up to 5 hours non-stop when colicky.

Check Baby’s Movements

Another way of determining whether your baby is colic or not is to check his movements. Since, colic is a state of pain and discomfort for a baby, his movements will tell you a lot about his sufferings. Look out for the following movements:

• Whether the baby is pulling his legs towards the abdomen and squeezing them.
• Whether your baby is holding his hands and legs and crying aloud.
• Whether your baby is clenching the fists and trashing around due to severe pain.

Fussiness And Sleeplessness

Other key symptoms of determining whether a baby has colic are observing his fussiness and sleeplessness. With colic, a baby won’t feel comfortable enough to sleep a whole night. He will be in constant pain and will be so fussy to handle. He will not even eat or open his mouth.

Hormonal Changes And Intolerance

Look out for hormonal changes in your baby that may not be visible to you but when you will take your baby to a child specialist, he will tell you the reason of your baby’s colic is his hormonal changes. Apart from this, babies are often colicky due to intolerance with cow’s milk or powdered milk.

A simple way to check this symptom is to observe whether your child starts colicky when you changed his feed from mother’s milk to powdered or formula food.
 
Observe Your Family Environment

Many parents can never even imagine that the reason for their baby’s colic is their family environment. So, check out or rather observe whether your family members are too aggressive or excited because this will affect the baby as well and he will feel uncomfortable in their presence and may become colicky. In some cases, when your home suddenly becomes peaceful the baby feels a change and becomes colicky.

So, the next time you see your child crying constantly, you will now be able to recognize whether the symptoms are colicky or not.