A breastfeeding fussy baby is likely to be changed over to formula if the mother is thinking ‘just why is my baby fussy at night?’ She’s starting to wonder if her milk is causing the fussiness.

My advice would be ‘Don’t make the change because it won’t help and your baby will miss out on getting the antibodies in your milk. You’re successfully breastfeeding so be happy about that.’

Formula isn’t a baby colic remedy and isn’t as good. It won’t help with calming a fussy baby. After 6 weeks of breastfeeding my colicky newborn I made this mistake myself years ago and I’d guess thousands of mothers do every day.

While a mother’s breastfeeding it’s very easy and quick to stop baby crying and simply cure colic once and for all. This is the ideal way so mothers need to keep right on breastfeeding while they learn more.

Colicky babies being bottle fed can be helped too.

Maybe not as quickly because the treatment has to be worked out, starting with small amounts of the missing nutrient and increasing as necessary.

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.

Does it seem very likely that although hundreds of babies were all given the same missing nutrient and all were quickly cured, the next babies to be treated in the same way wouldn’t be cured?

So what causes babies to have colic? The problem seems to start in the womb when baby is dependent on nourishment through the umbilical cord. The cure comes easily and naturally when the resulting situation is corrected. It doesn’t take long at all.

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.

The ultimate, perfect milk for newborns! Or it should have been, so what starts the problem?

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