ABC 33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, SportsMigraines & Colic in Infants

There may be a connection between mothers with migraines and healthy infants that cry excessively.

A new study suggests mothers with a history of migraine were more than two-and-a-half times more likely to have a baby with colic than mothers who didn't have migraine.

Researchers with the Headache Center at the University of California, San Francisco say the data from 154 mothers and their babies showed that nearly 29 percent of the babies whose mothers had a history of migraine had colic, compared with about 11 percent of babies whose moms did not report migraines.

Also, researchers say, there was a trend among fathers.

They say, about 22 percent of colicky babies had a father with migraine compared to only nearly 10 percent of the babies who did not have the condition.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health more than 29 million Americans are affected by chronic and often disabling migraine headaches.