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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. This episode of Natural MD Radio is dedicated to the moms and dads who have crying colicky babies.

I have been there.

My oldest, who's now 28,

didn't truly meet the definition of colic, which I'll tell you about in a minute so I called

it the sunset blues but wow I'll tell you as soon as the sun went down at night, that girl went into fussing and crying for like two hours.

And it was so distressing, you're a new parent, you're exhausted at that time of day and now you've got this crying baby and

it's scary and you don't know what's going on and you can't comfort them so

my heart goes out to you and my hope is that this episode will give you enormous reassurance,

some things you can try to help your baby be more comfortable and some things you can do

to be more comfortable yourself. So what is Kolic?

Well, it's kind of funny, the definition of collic isn't really entirely defined. People define it for scientific studies, but in general, it's just persistent excessive crying in a new baby and like I told you with us our

baby just always kind of went into this thing at night started when she was

about six weeks old and lasted until she was not

quite three months old and we did a lot of things that I'm going to share with you

today that helped but it definitely went on a bit and I certainly have learned a lot more that I help my families with because my kids were my guinea pigs it's true.

So we called it the sunset blues and the fact of the matter is that however much your baby's

crying if it's excessive it's one of the most distressing problems that you can

have in an otherwise healthy mom healthy baby.

It's distressing for the baby, and anytime your baby's in distress,

it's supposed to be distressing for you

because baby's crying is meant to send our alarm bells off. It's how they survive.

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