Many mothers believe in giving their children gripe water to nurse their colicy baby. If your baby cries inconsolably for at least three hours for three days a week it can be contributed to colic. It usually happens with babies aged between two to four weeks and leaves once she is four or five months old. Colic has no particular that one can point to though there are various reasons cited by doctors and medical experts for its existence. A lot of explanations are given regarding colic one being that the contractions of the intestine causes the abdominal pains when