The Crying Curve
Many infants cry and a diagnosis of GOR/CMPI is often considered.
"Colic" is a lay diagnosis which is not a medical diagnosis. Parents often report that their infant has a "sore tummy", and this is based on the observation that their baby is crying and pulling their legs up to their tummy; these observations are not consistent with abdominal pain but are consistent with parents trying to make sense of a stressful situation.
An infant whose only symptom is crying is most likely to be just crying. Crying is very normal. And like all normal things there is a range of normal.
This is what is known as a crying curve. This illustrates the range of normal crying amongst children up to the age of 4-5 months. As you can see, some children are more prone to crying than others.
