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Colicky 7 Week Old Seems Misreable During the Day

Help! I'm grandma, and in my day we called it "colic". My 7 week old granddaughter sleeps as you'd expect (with two feedings) during the night, but when she's awake in the morning before her mid-day sleeping time....and then again, when she awakens about 4pm until bedtime....she seems very uncomfortable. She extends her legs and arches her back, and seems generally tense and possibly in pain. Even if she's held constantly, she hardly stops crying. The pediatrician has given her a prescription for prilosec for reflux, but it doesn't seem...