Aw, honey. i read this New Yorker piece about colic a while back that really brought home how trying it is to the parents. It does sound really difficult to handle. don't worry -- you'll both come through it. Treat yourself kindly and grab catnaps when you can. It WILL pass!

I feel a lot better after reading about your life! I remember those sleep deprived days. I swear our first born never slept more than 90 minutes at a time for the first 6 months.

This will pass and someday you will look back and laugh. Or at least look at other hollow eyed desperate parents and think "wow I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore!"

Don't worry Ramix. After the first 8 years, it gets better.

"After the first 8 years, it gets better."

And then: THE TEEN YEARS!

When our little girls would cry and cry and cry, we'd run a vacuum in their room, right next to their beds. Something about the droning noise of the vacuum would calm them down. Not a loud machine, mind you, a low rumbly one. Feel free to use that.

ColdChef's on the money -- noises like vacuums, fans, clothes dryers, stuff like that helps. Simulates the white noise they heard in the womb, which they find soothing.

I know you've got no shortage of book recommendations thrown at you, but get you a copy of The Happiest Baby on the Block. Shit works, no kidding. Baby stop crying.

And then: THE TEEN YEARS!

Hah! And they get a driver's license. Oy.

Nthing Happeist Baby on the Block - short version - swaddle this SHIT out of them until they are four months old at least.
Plus. Plus! White noise. Don't discount a vacuum cleaner, or a garbage disposal running on high (swear to GOD it works). Good luck, and I hope you are sleeping while I write this.

My older nephew was colicky, and they'd hand him off to his magic uncle to soothe him. I'd hold him close to my chest and walk around slowly with him, singing old blues songs in a deep register:

Ain't nobody's dirty business
How my baby treats me;
Nobody's business but mine.

Ain't nobody's doggone business
How my baby treats me;
Nobody's business but my own.

Sometimes if he was still squalling I'd press his face up to my throat while I sang:

Hard times is here,
An everywhere you go
Times are harder
Than they ever been before.

Um, hm-hm
Um-hm
Um, hm-hm
Um, hm-hm-hm;

You know that people
They are driftin' from door to door,
But they can't find no heaven;
I don't care where they go.

Um, hm-hm
Um-uh-hm
Mm-hm-hm
Um, hm-hm-hm;

People, if I ever can get up
Offa this old hard killin' floor,
Lord, I'll never get down
This low no more.

Um, hm-hm-hm
Hm, um-hm
Hm, hm-hm
Hm, hm-hm-hm;

Well, you hear me singin'
This old lonesome song;
People, you know these hard times
Can't last us so long.

Hm, hm-hm
Hmm, hmm
Hm, hm-hm
Hm, hm-hm, oh Lord;

You know, you'll say you had money
You better be sure;
But these hard times gonna kill you
Just drive a lonely soul.

Um, hm-hm
Umm, hmm
Umm, hm-hm
Hm, hm-hm-hm;

Umm-hm
Hmm-hm-hm
Umm-hm
Hm-hm-hm
Hmm, hm-hm-hm.

The poor little tiger would be so tired out from crying that it wouldn't take a long time of constant low-hum distraction before he'd fall asleep. I loved doing it, and my brother and sister-in-law would be so relieved. Sometimes they'd come home to see me lying asleep on the couch with him sleeping wet on my neck, and they would tiptoe around us both. Makes me happy to think about.

Oh honey. I just posted a rant about Squigs rotten sleep habits.

We only had a week of "colic" thankfully - lots of swaddling and music involved. We just have awake rebel baby now.

Another tip to add to the 60 million you probably already have - if you haven't looked into it yet baby wearing is what is saving our sanity. There is a pretty good community online about it too.

My go-to song for grumpy baby is Elvis's "Can't Help Falling in Love." Never fails.

Heh, I know how you feel. We have a 10 weeks old baby. Apparently 2 hours of crying per day is about average.
Nursing her while walking around is one of our tricks. And putting her in a sling and walking around.
Songs I sing: Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You, When I Fall in Love, Incredible, etc. That often works for a while.

Oh for music selection The Cure usually works for us.

Just another vote for swaddling that babby to the max. Mad Dog (nearly 5 mo) is asleep like *that* after we wrap her up. I'm dreading the day when she stops liking it/is too big to swaddle.

I love the way swaddling makes a little baby burrito.

Babyrritos are good eatin'.