Any colicky breastfed baby is in danger of being changed over to formula because the mother is wondering ‘why is my baby fussy?’ She’s beginning to suspect it might be her milk causing the colic.

My suggestion would be this ‘It’s really not a good idea to change to using formula when you’re successfully breastfeeding. It wouldn’t cure the colic and baby needs the antibodies in your breast milk. Enjoy the fact you can successfully feed your baby yourself.’

Any formula you choose is bound to be inferior to the real thing and wouldn’t be a remedy. It wouldn’t cure the colic. My own colicky newborn got changed over to formula at 6 weeks old and I regretted it afterwards. I was one of many moms who do it hoping it will help.

While you’re feeding baby yourself it’s ideal for effecting a simple and quick cure for all the fussiness. So continue to breastfeed and make sure you learn what you need to do now.

Colicky babies being bottle fed can be helped too.

It might take 2 days or more, not just hours as it is for breastfed babies, as the missing nutrient would be supplied in small doses and then increased if it needed to be.

I really believe there’s just one cause for colic and one home treatment for colic that’s effective. Babies in their hundreds all got quick relief because the same thing caused their colic and so the same treatment cured it.

Much is written about ‘colic causes and cures’ but my learning and experience indicate differently.

Colic seems to have a single cause, otherwise why have hundreds of babies supplied with the same nutrient recovered from colic very quickly? Doesn’t it seem to follow that hundreds more babies would get the same benefit?

Why do so many babies have colic? It seems the newborns are depleted of a nutrient or nutrients they need, hence all the pain and crying. Once that’s corrected colic ceases to be a problem.

The crying babies transform to peacefully sleeping babies quite quickly and easily, but the problem in the first place is with unbelieving parents who find it hard to accept that this can be true!

God’s plan included the ability to nourish babies while in the womb through the placenta and umbilical cord and then out of the womb with fresh, perfect temperature milk for the beginning of their lives, for as many months as we (or baby) wish.

Perfect! Or it should be, so what goes wrong?