Homeopathic Remedies.

[mandrina]

Really for formula you can buy for the same price as the other stuff? Well in that case I'd buy a can or two of the ready made or the stuff you mix with water to test it t o see if it works then go to the Dr. and ask them to fill out whatever paper work is needed. Then again I don't know how these things work in the U.S.A. and i might be a little bit spoiled by my Dr.s as they all seem to do pretty much what I ask them to do.

My experience with WIC, which was 8 or so years ago, was that substitutions for their listed formula was only with dr prescriptions. I would do what you suggest, test it out with a couple doses of it, ask the WIC office exactly how to get permission for it, and go to the doctor. WHen we were on wic, my understanding was one had to have permission from a doc for the soy formula. We didn't need it, we only had 1 month of formula, I got the breastfeeding coupons, til he was eleven months old and you only get formula for 12 months.

[Monica Mc]

I think you're referring to "gripe water." I found a well reputed brand and suggested it. I haven't heard if they've bought it/tried it yet.
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No, I don't think so, it was something to do with making the bubbles in his stomach join together on get burped. I honestly don't think it did too much anyway, I just wanted to say something based on your actual question rather than suggesting stuff I often use as a professional when parents (or staff) are having trouble with babies.

[SatSekhem]

It is very unlikely that the doctor would see you with the child without the mother's express permission unless there are guardianship issues.

And, I hate to say it, but I am also likely to lie in the face of overbearing relatives who keep insisting that I must do things their way and share their concerns, or who won't accept that I am capable of taking care of my own medical issues. Is it possible that she has gotten an answer and advice she finds acceptable and you don't?

If you are not being overbearing or managing, or imposing your own ideas of 'what should be' then I apologize for suggesting it. However, sometimes colicky is just colicky and what was normal for your own baby (holding head up, etc.) may simply not be for your sister's child.

Absent

I can see, easily, where I would come off as overbearing. However, since she only had the baby so that the boyfriend would stay around, I think it's a matter of she doesn't care. She comes off as a girl who has done all of the hard work, I.E. carried the baby for nine months, and deserves a reward for said hard work. She also has this strange aversion to, you know, being near her child. Like, at all. Ever. She frightens me, to be honest, as a mother.

[Jubes]

My experience with WIC, which was 8 or so years ago, was that substitutions for their listed formula was only with dr prescriptions. I would do what you suggest, test it out with a couple doses of it, ask the WIC office exactly how to get permission for it, and go to the doctor. WHen we were on wic, my understanding was one had to have permission from a doc for the soy formula. We didn't need it, we only had 1 month of formula, I got the breastfeeding coupons, til he was eleven months old and you only get formula for 12 months.

Ok was over a Kroger tonight and took a look at the formula Nutramigen is made by enfamil and it is WIC approved.

[sugarmagnolia]

This thread isn't for me, but for my nephew, Skylar. He is two and a half months old and "suffers from colic." In all reality, I don't think the problem is colic: I think that there is something honestly wrong, but the doctor says "colic" and "fuss." And of course, my nephew's mother either doesn't care that there could be something seriously wrong and/or isn't forceful enough. (Probably both.)

Anyway, until I can force her to grow some balls and talk to her a doctor, I'm looking for some homeopathic remedies for colic. If nothing else, we can try this and see how it works.

And, you know, if it doesn't, then we know it isn't colic.

Something to keep in mind is the possibility that your nephew may have a hernia. My oldest was born with 2 of them and had surgery to correct them at 2 months.

[SatSekhem]

Something to keep in mind is the possibility that your nephew may have a hernia. My oldest was born with 2 of them and had surgery to correct them at 2 months.

That was actually our first thought. My Hubby was born with a double hernia and had surgery at two months as well.