These are questions that can disturb new parents. I'm Doctor Robert Lehman, an associate professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Parents seek medical attention when they feel their child cries excessively.
Many first time parents dread the word colic. It can be bothersome, but these parents can be reassured that this is merely a phase that the child is going through. Colic is simply a syndrome of excessive crying of such intensity or duration that it upsets the parent's normal routine. The baby will stop crying by itself and the intensity will lessen. Sometimes the parents may do the wrong thing for the right reason.