But what was more significant to me was I could easily notice the effects the antibiotics were having in these babies because they were so upset and colicky with wind pain and they were noticeably were going for poo’s a lot.

I understand that babies do poo a lot! But babies exposed to antibiotics tend to go up to 10 times per day, virtually every nappy, and it can be quite watery too.

The antibiotics were obviously necessary to have because of your high temperature, however it has been known for a very long time now that antibiotics kill off the “bad” bacteria but also the “good” bacteria.

This is exactly what happens in both babies and adults and it often results in diarrhoea as a side effect. In the baby of course we call it colic, so parents think their baby has colic when technically it has what you could call “colic due to antibiotics”.

Research comes out almost weekly at the moment which I think is so important for mothers in your situation to know which revolves around the importance of our gut bacteria and the impact the early moments of life have upon it and our children's future health.

It’s all very new but it seems our gut bacteria plays an incredible role in either keeping us healthy or predisposing us to illness.

Did you know that we have more bacteria cells in our gut than we have cells in our whole body? Around 60 trillion!

And will live a delicate balance with them, us keeping them happy and in turn they keep us healthy and happy too.

In this case I also think the fact that the colic has started early, at one week also points to the antibiotics too.

There are many other causes behind an irritable baby, such as having forceps or a ventouse delivery which cranial osteopaths routinely see although you haven’t mentioned this.

It has been found that illnesses in adults have specific patterns of gut bacteria changes, even obesity can be viewed as changes in the gut bacteria.