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It's actually quite common for foods that a breastfeeding mother is eating to cause gas or colicy behavior in a child. A friend had to avoid eating chocolate because her child would cry on hours and hours after she'd eat a chocolate. Lo behold, that child still doesn't like chocolate - not allergic to it - but it just doesn't sit well. I've known people ...

My husband and I visit his family in Wisconsin at least once or twice or year. Until this year, we lived in Tennessee and this was a 12+ hour drive which we dutifully did with our son/son and daughter until this year when we realized that driving from Georgia would add another 4 hours to the drive. So now we fly. During that time, we ALWAYS stopped to ...

While it might be useful on a long road trip to be able to do this, it is certainly easier to do this when at a rest stop - one of mine really needed to be burped after a bottle, and this worked best in the traditional 'over the shoulder' position, so we couldn't have done that safely when driving. It also gives both the driver and partner time to work ...

Having now reached 16 weeks with my little one I can say that my pediatrician actually ended up being correct - time was the answer. The gas pain began tapering off around 14 weeks and at 16 weeks has been gone for well over a week. Unfortunately it has left in its wake sleep issues that will now have to be addressed. Were I to do this all over again I ...

I think Swati has made excellent valid points. I suspect it's probably primarily gas as well. If you don't want to approach the change in diet as an option, there are some OTC gas remedies that might help some. You can try Mylicon gas drops (sometimes just called gas drops) or you might have some limited success with gripe water. I wouldn't discount acid ...