Colic Calm

When we become parents for the first time, we find ourselves in a world of joy, love and self-doubt. As mothers, we want to make sure that we are doing everything we possibly can for our children, and we do.

Catherine thought she knew what she was in for when bringing her newborn home. Jacob was Catherine’s second baby, so she had prepared herself for the endless feeding sessions and the mountains of diapers that would need changing. She was also ready for the snuggling and love that a newborn brings. However, she was not prepared for

Colleen and her husband shared pure bliss when they brought their first child, a daughter named Augusta Marie, home from the hospital. Life was good, the baby was perfect and they journeyed on to this new stage of life called Parenthood. However, about five weeks into it, something happened. Augusta cried

Before I found Colic Calm, I researched all kinds of gripe water used for infants. I was surprised to find ingredients in them used for reflux that weren't even recommended for babies or kids under five-years-old! I didn't want to give my baby something that could potentially be harmful to him, but I wanted to have something

Having Baby #2 is a whole lot easier—you know what to expect with the delivery, you have a handle on nursing, and you don’t have to buy all the equipment.

Like many women in today’s world, Robyn waited before becoming pregnant for the first time and looked into her future with excitement as she took this next step in life. Robyn gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and named her Blythe.

Markeitha was no stranger to the crying of a newborn. When she gave birth to Cyniah, it was her fifth child, so calling Markeitha a veteran of new babies is no exaggeration. However, Cyniah made her realize that she did have more to learn—the poor baby would cry and cry,

"Life was chaos." That's how poor Kristina describes the first two weeks of her son, David's, life. David was crying—crying a lot. Kristina and her husband felt terrible, because they could see from David’s distress that he was uncomfortable, but they couldn’t figure out how to make him feel better.

When Brandie’s first son, Rusten was born, the crying didn’t stop. Brandie knew that crying was normal for a newborn, but she also knew that Rusten seemed to be doing it too much. She says, “Rusten had colic and was a crying mess from late afternoon till bedtime which was about 9pm-10pm."

Newborns spit up and cry—this is very normal behavior for these tiny beings that have just entered the world. So normal that 70% of infants spit up on a daily basis and an average infant 1-3 months old