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Colic Vs High Needs

  • COLICKY
    BABY

  • HIGH NEEDS
    BABY

  • HAVE NORMAL SLEEP & EATING
    PATTERNS, BUT OFTEN WAKE FROM
    COLIC PAIN

    SLEEP

    IRREGULAR SLEEP & EATING
    PATTERNS. WAKE & FEED
    FREQUENTLY

  • NO NEGATIVE REACTION TO
    NOISE OR PEOPLE

    NOISE

    HAVE INTENSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS TO
    NOISE & COMMOTION

  • CRY FOR MORE THAN 3 HOURS A DAY.
    CRYING EPISODES LOAST LONGER & SEEM
    TO HAPPEN FOR NO REASON

    CRYING

    CRY LESS THAN COLIC
    BABIES, BUT MORE THAN
    NORMAL BABIE

  • CRYING TYPICALLY LASTS FOR 3
    MONTHS, BUT CAN L, BUT CAN
    LAST UP TO 6 MONTHS

    DURATION

    CRYING LASTS
    THROUGHOUT
    FIRST FEW YEARS

Colic Symptoms

  • GRIMMACED FACE
  • DIFFICULT TO SOOTHE
  • RED FACE
  • ARCHED BACK
  • GAS
baby Cry
  • EXCESSIVE CRYING
  • HIGH PITCHED
    PIERCING SOUND
  • CLENCHED FISTS
  • KNEES DRAWN
    TO CHEST

High needs Symptoms

  • DIFFICULT
  • NEGATIVE REACTION TO NOISE
  • FUSSY
  • WAKE FREQUENTLY
  • DEMANDING
Baby Cry
  • IRREGULAT SLEEP &
    EATING PATTERNS
  • HAVEA HARD TIME ADJUSTING
    TO NEW ENVIRONMENT
  • HYPERACTIVE
  • FEARFUL OF NEW PEOPLE

AVERAGE
CRYING EPISODE
A COLICKY BABY

38 minutes
hour
hour
20 minutes

AVERAGE
CRYING EPISODE
A HIGH NEEDS

Baby Face image

  • 20%

    OF BABIES BORN OR 2 IN 10 GET COLIC

  • 10%

    OF BABIES BORN OR 1 IN 10 ARE HIGH NEEDS