Eleven Natural Colic remedies
Posted by: "Shirish Bhate" shirishbhate@yahoo.com shirishbhate
MD Pediatrician from India discussing ayurvedica methods of resolving colic
Perinatalayurveda@yahoogroups.com
Wed Jun 6, 2007 3:08 am (PST)
Dear Moms:
You may have spent sleepless nights worrying about baby having stomach ache/colic. Other than mothers milk, nothing suits babies up to 2 years. Switch to formula causes colic. Mothers diet also sometimes causes colic.
Collection from grandmas and moms, aunties, etc is here. Handed over to the author by a obstetrician friend. Author too added something. Most of it may be already known to you. Thought it may be useful. If you wish to add to it, please and pass on to next generation.
1. Just get into a hot bath with the baby. Both of you will relax and the colic will quickly disappear. You and the baby will be able to sleep thereafter.
2. Pure (Extra virgin) Olive Oil works great for babies with colic. Give them a teaspoon full, and in 15-20 minutes, they are quiet. It not only coats the stomach, but it helps when they use the rest room.
3. Take a quarter of a small onion and boil it in a small sauce pan. After about five minutes of boiling, take 2 oz of broth and 2 oz of cold water, and 1 tsp of jaggery and place in a bottle. Give bottle to baby. This helps the desire to suck, and the onion breaks up the gas. Child stops crying and is back to sleep in 15 minutes. For those not having jaggery can use karo syrup or honey.
4. Steep fennel seeds for 10 minutes. Give 1/2 to 1 oz as needed (luke warm). No sweetner please.
5. In author's childhood, Gripe water was available, which also used to work. Procedure to make this water: Take 250 ml water and add 2 tsp each of Cotrander seeds, cumeen seeds, ajwain seeds, anise seeds, dill seeds, Vidanga seeds if available. All seeds to be coarsely ground before adding to water. Slow boil till water remains 100 ml. Strain and gripe water is ready. Vidanga takes care of parasites too.
6. Find an orange tree, pick some leaves off of it, wash them, make a tea of them by boiling them in water which also sterilizes the tea, and add a little jaggery or honey.
7. Take hot water bottle (the rubber kind) a towel and heat water to fill bottle to 50%. Wrap it in towel (so you don't burn the baby). Place it in the middle of the babies bed. Place the baby on top of it with the bottle immediately under the babies stomach. Pat the baby's back gently until it goes to sleep.
8. Many colic situations arise as a result of gas entrapped in stomach. Dissolve a peppermint candy in hot water and give baby even 15-20 ml would be adequate. Allow baby to burp the gas.
9. This is something unusual. Try it as last option. Take small bottle and fill it up with about 25 ml beer. Shake well so that all bubbles and gas passes out of bottle. Give to baby and see the miracle.
10. In remedy#3, instead of quarter onion, substitute two cloves of garlic and a new remedy results. Adding a little jaggery would take care of pungent taste.
11. Take 2 tsp cooking oil. sesame oil would be best. heat it. when fumes start coming, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 pinch turmeric powder, 1 pinch ajwain powder. when garlic turns golden brown, add a pinch of asfoetida and remove from fire immediately. When oil cools to warm temperature, apply it around belly button of baby and massage lightly. Baby will pass gas and sleep.
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The intro is short so that fathers and professional caregivers can get the overview of the information now. Fathers/Partners will be inspired about how to advocate for the mother and baby -- whether with a doctor or midwife, or at home or the hospital.
Thanks again for your support for the film. My heart soars with gratitude.
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The full film will have the interviews of a wider spectrum of professionals and fathers, and will include a third birth, at home, where the caregivers do a necessary intervention, suctioning, while being conscious of the baby.
The final version will feature OBs, RNs, CNMs, LM, CPM, Doulas, childbirth educators, pre and perinatal psychologists and trauma healing therapists, physiologists, neurologists, speech therapists and lots and lots of fathers -- will hopefully be done in early 2009.
The final version will include the science needed to advocated for delayed cord clamping, and the science that shows when a baby needs to be suctioned and addresses other interventions. Experts in conscious parenting will teach how to be present with a sentient newborn in a conscious, gentle way -- especially when administering life-saving techniques.
The goal is to keep the baby in the mother's arms so that the baby gets all of his or her placental blood and to avoid unnecessary, violating, and abusive touch and interactions. When we do that, whether at home or hospital, with doctor or midwife, the birth is safe for the father. The "trick" for birthing men and women is how to make it happen in the hospital.
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Try eliminating wheat and dairy from Mom's diet! it worked for me---I was living on grilled cheese sandwhiches and smoothies which I thought were good foods to help build strength after birth---when I figured out that these were giving my baby the worst colic in history, as well as rashes, we were both able to begin anew, minus the crying jags that lasted for hours on end. Also, Gripe water is available at health food stores!
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