AAP News Vol. 13 No. 1 January 1997, p. 2
© 1997 American Academy of Pediatrics
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Is there life after colic?

Colic - the all-to-common abdominal pain responsible for those long bouts of disconsolate crying in up to 30 percent of infants under age 3 months - produces family stress symptoms that, in the severest cases, persist through the baby's first birthday.

To examine the stress factors, Finnish researchers asked 59 families of colicky babies and 58 control families to keep "crying diaries." Parents were interviewed when infants were age 2 months, a colic peak time, and age 12 months, when symptoms had subsided. Family structure, communication, functioning and affective state were assessed.