Hospital

It was about 11pm when Gemma and I decided that we needed to call the doctors, as Niamh wasn't settling and was crying at the top of her lungs for at least 3 hours straight! Not Good!

We were told we'd need to go to the Royal Infirmary (Local Hospital) so she could be examined - so we arrived and Niamh was poked and prodded (in some places where the sun doesn't shine). Gem was really upset through the whole thing and had a good cry in the doctors office, as its not nice to see your little baby upset!

We were then told we'd need to go to the childrens ward so she could be monitored, we were seen by a total of 3 different people - each of them asked the same questions. Finally a registrar arrived and he said it could be either acid reflux or colic (dur, thats what we said originally) ... but that they need to keep her (and us) in for another 5-6 hours while they took blood and inserted a catheter to check her pee.

Not happening! Niamh had finally gone to sleep, we were told it would be a quick visit so we didn't pack any more than a couple of nappies (which were used because every doctor and nurse asked us to remove them). So we decided we would discharge us and Niamh from the hospital.

We got home at 3:30am and Niamh stayed asleep pretty much until 10:30am which we were very pleased about ... and this morning she hasn't been nearly as bad as she was yesterday. The docs did give us some infant gaviscon, which may help ... we will see!

Ok I Lied

The colic definately isn't going! At the moment im sitting here and have just tried to console Niamh through 2 1/2 hours of crying ... something is definately upsetting her tummy as she keeps raising her knees and clenching her fists ... the weird thing is that she hasn't got wind or anything like that - so im guessing that its just tummy ache or something similar. She isn't running a fever or being sick so its nothing to worry about ... much

The other side of the coin is that when you have kids you have this strange idea that during the day & evening she is going to be a little bundle of joy ... that certainly isn't the case if your baby develops colic ... far from it!

If anybody has had a baby who had colic ... pass on some tips maybe, we could use them, before we tear our hair out! ;)