Four days after giving birth, Missy Goodson was falling into a comfortable routine with her adorable daughter. But by day five, her bundle of joy suddenly had become inconsolable, wailing non-stop for hours on end.

"Babies cry," friends told her. "It's colic – just wait it out," the pediatrician said. Neither was any consolation to the Louisville, Ky. mother of two.

The fact that doctors simply don't know much about colic, including what causes it or exactly how to treat it, left Goodson feeling helpless. "There was no soothing her," Goodson says. "She cried day and night, no matter what we did. We tried swaddling her in a blanket, rocking her, bouncing her – nothing worked. I felt like I was losing my mind.

"The low point was probably when I took Sydney to the emergency room after she had been crying for six hours straight. I handed her to the nurse and she stopped crying. I thought I must just be the worst mother ever."

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