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Having to pacify a persistently irate baby could be quite a challenging task of many a newly turned moms and dads. A child could be termed colicky when despite being in good health, being amply fed is crying for above 3 hours on an average daily, lasting for above 3 days during a week’s time. Colic is a condition that is not totally comprehended though it generally makes its presence felt in nearly fourteen days subsequent to the child’s birth or even afterwards among babies born prematurely. Most often it subsides when the child is three to four months old. Below mentioned are some of the prudent tips that one could employ to soothe your irate, colicky baby: Using pacifiers or baby’s dummy or comforter. Doing gentle rocking motions to the baby placed on one’s lap or seated in a chair  [...]

‘Am I hallucinating this?’ On several occasions, the behaviorism of a colicky baby might make one feel like having confronted the Loch Ness beast. It can be quite unprepossessing to take a constantly yelping baby to public places like malls, restaurants or to one’s mom-in-law’s home cause who might like to hear the on-going shrieks. Colic-stricken babies when not ailing from it, would otherwise appear beamy and might sleep peaceably in the buggy for hours on end, seeming like the rather-perfect baby to outsiders. However, only the mothers of these colicky babies seem to be biting their tongues when they receive compliments from relatives about what an angel they have in their arms, when one’s personal harrowing experiences trace back to the protracted hours of non-stop crying that  [...]