MY DAUGHTER LUCY entered this world screaming at the top of her lungs beneath the metallic white lights of an operating room in Manhattan, where a small crowd of medical students had gathered to watch ...

Having infant colic, characterized by unsoothable crying and apparent abdominal discomfort, was associated with an increased risk for atopic conditions and respiratory illnesses throughout childhood ...

All babies cry. That's how they tell us what they want, or something's wrong. But when your baby cries for hours on end, you know it's more than communication. Newborns cry and get fussy sometimes.

For many parents, long nights spent soothing a fussy baby is almost a rite of passage. According to the American Pregnancy Association, about 20% to 25% of babies go through a colicky phase. Colic is ...

In most cases, colic does not require medical care, nor is it a symptom of a larger medical problem. It usually improves on its own within several months. All babies cry and get fussy from time to ...

Crying and being fussy are normal baby behaviors that indicate hunger or a dirty diaper, but sometimes a baby shows signs of excessive crying for no apparent reason. This is called colic – unexplained ...

You bring your newborn home, and for weeks you marvel at your baby who does little more than sleep, eat, and gaze up at you. Oh, he cries too — to let you know he's hungry or overtired or ...

Catherine O'Neill Grace, Barry M. Lester. William Morrow & Company, $22.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-06-052714-3 Colic affects one in five American babies and can cause families extreme distress and alter ...

As strange as it may seem, there is no standard or accepted definition of colic, so the word means different things to different people. But perhaps the most useful definition of "colic" is recurrent ...