Colic... please help!

Erica

My baby girl will be 8 weeks old the day after Memorial Day. We are EBF and I wouldn’t have it any other way! However this last week has been physically and emotionally exhausting and frustrating. She’s always been kind of fussy and gassy since she was born. But this last week it seemed to be worse than usual.

I give her mylicon gas drops after every feeding. I also started her on probiotics every day (the Gerber probiotics), AND we use the frida baby windi’s when all else fails. Which is more often than I’d like to admit. The windi’s have honestly been a life saver some days but I know it’s not ok to use them all the time or else she will become reliant on it to have a bowel movement. Today even the windi wouldn’t give her any relief! Usually she passes a lot of gas with it and even fills it up with poop. Poop has literally hit the wall by the changing table before cause this poor girl was so gassy it came out with that much force 😢

I will add I have two other children who are 13 and almost 11 and they both had colic terribly as well. But I think it was because I was much younger and didn’t know (no one told me not even the doctors 😫) that smoking cause nicotine to go into your breast milk and upset baby’s tummy. And as soon as my older two were born I started smoking again like an idiot 😑. I DO NOT smoke now and haven’t for over a year so I know that’s not the issue with this little one. My diet is shit mostly because I don’t each much, one meal a day if I’m lucky and it’s usually on the run. I do drink coffee but try to limit my caffeine intake. I tried to avoid chocolate but that was damn near impossible. When i did eat chocolate I didn’t notice any difference in her fussiness for a few days time after eating said chocolate. I also take breast milk supplements.

If anyone has any pointers or products or any sort of advice it would be GREATLY appreciated! She is fussy all day long to the point where I can’t go anywhere or do anything other than try to calm her. We have to move ASAP and I can’t even make phone calls or go look at places we could potentially move to because from about 10am-10pm (give or take) she’s a wailing mess. It’s killing me that I can’t make it go away and make her feel better!

Thanks in advance!