It’s true. Colic is MUCH harder on
parent than infant. My daughter survived six months of colic unscathed. My husband and I are a different story. We have deep psychological scars that send us scurrying for nearest exist every time we hear a baby cry.As parents, we were newbies. We had never even changed a diaper when we brought our bundle of joy home from hospital. I had heard a few horror stories about babies with colic, but never thought in a million years I would be proud owner of a colic baby. So, imagine our horror, when on about our third week of parenting, our daughter started screaming every day around dinnertime. And, I’m talking blood-curdling, “I’m-in-severe-pain” sort of screaming. Screaming that lasted four hours and drove everyone in household to tears.
We thought for sure something was horribly wrong.
A doctor appointment later, I was assured that my daughter was fine, and she probably just had “a little colic.” Not to worry, that colic would pass within a “couple of months”.
Yeah, right. Define a “couple of months”.
Those of you who have a baby with “a little colic” know there is no such thing. Experiencing a colic episode is extremely traumatic. You feel helpless, angry and frustrated when everything you try to stop crying fails miserably. You feel like you’re a bad parent or that your baby hates you. But, don’t despair. Empower yourself! There are tons of strategies, tricks and products out there to help you deal with a colicky baby.
A guaranteed colic-buster we used time and time again was white noise. “What is white noise?” you might ask. Good question. Here goes.
White noise is full spectrum of sound frequencies a human ear can hear combined together all at once. Huh?
Okay, again in layman’s terms. Have you ever been in a crowd full of people, for example, at a sporting event? Everyone is talking at same time. You can’t decipher every single conversation, but you do hear roar of crowd (it happens to make me sleepy). That is white noise. Oh, yeah, I get it now!
