It all makes sense now.  And i almost feel like at some point while we were in the hospital or with our pediatrician, someone should have said,"expect him to be colicy."

I did some research about colic, very light research, and this is what i learned:

No one really knows what causes colic but there are a lot of educated guesses.  Two of them are lactose intolerance and traumatic birth.  We put him on soy formula when he had problems pooping and i would worry about him if he didn't have stress and trauma from his first two weeks of life.

Along with no one really knowing what causes colic, there are also a bunch of educated guesses on what helps ease/cure colic.  I read in several places that probiotics are supposed to help the digestive tract - and in a lot of places parents swore that probiotics helped almost immediately.  Probiotics are also supposed to help with the lactose intolerance as well as building a healthier digestive tract.  AND some doctors recommend probiotics after a treatment of antibiotics - HELLO.  How come no one told us this?  Parker had a super intense treament of TWO antibiotics for TWO weeks.  By the time he was released, he had like 60 doses total.  During the first week he had two antibiotics twice a day and the second week, he was getting each one three times a day.  And i remember they kept telling me that he was pooping so much because the antibiotics were affecting his digestive system.

There are so many things that i think the drs should have mentioned and they didn't.  I should have been told that i would need to go to the hospital as soon as my water broke because of the group B strep that i tested positive for.  All i knew was that i would get some antibiotics when i was admitted to help him from getting infected during birth.  no one ever explained to me that i could get him sick - and i didn't read about it anywhere.  And all of this about colic and the probiotics, i wish someone would have told us to put him on probiotics as soon as we brought him home.  It makes sense and I don't know enough about pediatric medicine to come to that conclusion on my own.

Today has been a really good day for Parker.  He hasn't been as fussy - he's cried but he hasn't gotten super pissed like he usually does.  The poor guy gets sooo mad, and he gets sooo red and his body gets all tense.  i feel bad that life has been so hard for him and he's only 7 weeks old. No wonder he doesn't seem to be a very happy baby - i wouldn't be a happy baby.  This morning, for about 10 minutes, he was a happy baby.  He was cooing and smiling at me and he was happy.

You can't help but feel like you aren't doing the right thing when he just wails and screams unconsolably.  It helps a little that the articles written on colic also address this feeling - but it doesn't change how much i wish i could find that one right thing to help him.  I think the 3 days of probiotics and the herbal "gripe water" might be helping him.