Laughter is the Best Medicine

When your child has colic, you will do about anything to sooth him or her.  The intensity of the screaming, the inability to calm your child, the length it draws on.. it's all so frustrating and difficult.  You scour the internet hoping to find a cure.  You walk up and down the aisles of Walgreens praying you'll see something that might work.  You plead with God.  You plead with your child.  You take your child to the doctor.  If you're nursing you think, 'maybe it's me'.  So you go to the doctor.  You go to the breast feeding clinic.  You stop eating this, start eating that, try different nursing positions.  You try natural herbs and remedies.  You hear success stories about taking your child to the chiropractor.  So you try it.  If someone told you they heard standing on your head singing the national anthem backwards worked, you would do it.  You are that desperate.  We've tried organic gripe water.  We've tried Mylecon.  We've tried giving them together.  We've tried them separate.  I can honestly say we've tried everything.  Nothing has worked.  We've read it goes away at three months.  Presley is now almost four months.  And still -- no relief.  The one thing that has worked, laughter.  My husband, Craig and I try to laugh about it as much as possible.  As much as our nerves will allow anyway.  We try singing over it.  We try pretending it's super quiet in the car, for example, when really she's screaming her head off.  We know we'll get through it.  We know the days will soon be easier.  The nights will be calmer.  Brooks went through it, we survived.  We are colic survivors.  One day we'll be able to print t-shirts that say, 'I survived colic'.  And all of those parents out there with colicky children will be able to relate.  Perhaps even get a good laugh.  And maybe even want a t-shirt too.