It's official.. Colton has Colic.. YUCK!! On Tuesday, he screamed all day. Even when I would pick him up, his face was red, his body was stretched out and he was just having none of my sweet talking to calm him down. I told myself, if he is still doing this tomorrow, I am calling the doctor. Well, Wed rolls around and he is still doing it, so I called and my doctor was out but we made an appt with the guy on call. What a jerk.
Of course, you feel like an idiot when the doctor looks at you and says "well, he is a baby, and that is what babies do, they cry. You have probably over stimulated him, you know, had the TV on too loud, had too many visitors.. you need to not do that". Lucky for him, Colton choose that time to start screaming again so I was worried about him instead of telling the doctor that (A) I don't even like TV so during the day, if it is on, it is on very low and probably on CMT or something like that.. not like I am watching Jerry Springer or anything ugg and (B) I really don't know too many people here, and the people I do know WORK during the day, so we have had NO visitors.. whatever.
When I got home, I googled colic and found some suggestions on how to deal with it, but Kelli's advice was the best.. the vent in the bathroom is our new best friend. He calms down immedieatly when I turn that vent on. So.... (this might get me bad parent points, I don't know" but last night we moved his bassinet into our bathroom and turned on the vent and HALLELUJIAH, we got some sleep. Of course, he still woke up for his feedings, but was in a MUCH better mood.
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