Baby Molly

When i think back the many years it was that Molly was a baby, i think my memory has been kind to me and suppressed a lot of the awfullness! Molly use to scream all the time. The only way to get her to be quiet was to nurse her. My husband and i use to get into fights about when we should start counting the 3 hours since she last nursed time! of course, he wasn't the one doing the act, so to him, the sooner i could start again the better to keep her quiet! We were first time parents, so we just thought that we had won the luck of the draw and had a very colicky baby. Therefore, i eliminated pretty much everything from my diet to see if it would help Molly. No chocolate, dairy, wheat, shellfish, coffee.. you name it, i didn't eat it! It was great for losing the baby weight, but Molly continued to scream. I had not slept in many weeks when my sister finally came to my rescue and took me to the pediatrician. My sister was convinced that something was wrong with Molly. She had had two babies and felt that Molly's constant state of duress was not normal. The doctor completely dismissed our observations and wrote everything off to the fact that i was a new mother and i should just relax. That should have been my sign to leave, but i guess i was just too exhausted to see it. So the one thing i want to pass on to others, follow your instincts, or if you are too tired to have any instincts, follow those of a trusted friend/ relative. I probably would have gotten Molly on the road to treatment earlier if i had pursued my sister's observation that something was off with my baby.