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When Lily was born, Kristen was like any other new mom—tired but happy. And Lily was like any other newborn—slept, cried, ate. But then something changed—Lily pretty much just cried. And cried. And cried. Kristen says, “Lily was crying non-stop. She did sleep well in the beginning. As she got older, she would try to sleep,

All babies cry, and all babies spit-up; as parents we know this. But when your newborn is waking up in pools of spit-up, is that what’s considered normal?

Madelyn at 11 months with her "best girl", Minnie Mouse Being a new mom is difficult, but imagine how much more difficult it would be if your husband was gone.

As a new mom, you deal with anxieties that you’ve never had before—“Am I a good parent?” “Am I holding my baby right?” “Can I bathe my baby?” Even the most self-assured woman experiences these sort of lapses in confidence as she has a tiny, crying, newborn in her arms. This is compounded when your baby CRIES ALL DAY. Nothing can make you feel more inadequate or tired. So imagine what first time mom, Erin,

Alesha was no stranger to the maternity ward—she had just had her third boy, Zaydin, but things weren’t going very smoothly. First, he was born early and had to spend time in the NICU, and secondly, he had terrible reflux and would spit up everything that he ate. Alesha shares the trials of trying to help Zaydin, and what finally worked to make

When Jocelyn had Bentley (her second child) all seemed well. Then, when he was about six weeks old, he “woke” up as newborns do. He was cooed a little more, looked around a bit more, and he cried A LOT more. Especially at night time. Jocelyn says that, “Bentley would cry from 6:30-9:00 PM and not calm down.”

Just because you have a second child, doesn’t mean you're a veteran mom. Nothing can throw a parent a curve ball like a fussy baby. You’ve changed the diaper, you’ve swaddled them, they’ve been fed, you’ve been “baby wearing” them for hours on end. But the crying won’t stop. Such was the case for Diana.

When Ali had her first child, AJ, two years ago, she had heard about Colic Calm. AJ had been fussy, but she was a bit hesitant to purchase the solution because she could only find it online. She hadn’t thought about it again until her second child, Ana, came into the world.

When Amelia was born, all was perfect. Melanie’s third child, she says that Amelia, “was an easy baby that never cried unless she needed something.” Such was life for the first two weeks of Amelia’s life, but then she “woke up.”

Isaiah is Stephanie’s first child, and boy was he about to give her and her husband the ride of their lives! At only days old, Isaiah was extremely gassy, as well as colicky, which ended up with afternoons and nights of inconsolable crying. Stephanie remembers that he was so gassy, people thought it was her breaking wind! She says, “I've been holding him when he passed gas, and it sounded so big everyone swore it was me! Until I passed him to them and he did