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Colicky babies more likely to have mothers who smoke
A study of more than 3000 babies aged 6 months or less has shown that attacks of colic are twice as likely to affect babies whose mothers smoke as those infants with mothers who do not smoke.
But babies whose mothers smoke are less likely to have colic if they are breast fed, compared with bottle-fed children of mothers who smoke.
