DD (6 weeks) soooooo hard to wind

[hbmummy]

Happy New Year to you all.....

DD1 is 6 weeks.

She seems to be getting harder to burp, and has terrble wind, poor lass. We have tried all sorts of ways - shoulder, updight and rubbing back, tummy on knee but for some reason the wind does not come, and she is terribly distressed.

We are using infacol (1 week now) and thought we were making progress.... but after a miserable night - 4 hours feeding, winding, soothing and settling for 3 hours of sleep..... we are wondering if we can also give her Gripewater to see if it will help.

Can we do the Gripewater (Woodwards) at the same time as Infacol?

[MumRum]

are you bottle feeding?
if you are I wondered what size teats your using.. she may be better suited to a faster flow teat or a different make that stops her taking in to much air..
Sorry, not much help if your breast feeding

[MumRum]

we used to slowly sit out babies up from a feeding positing and they would burp like they'd been drinking coke

[Easywriter]

Are you bottle feeding?

A good way to calm her is to lay her across your forearm (so her head will be near your elbow and she'll be looking at the floor) and then rub her back.

A good winding method (good to combine with a bit of baby massage) is to lay her on her back (maybe after a nappy change but it needn't be) and gently move her legs in a cycling motion. Also you can try moving each leg across her body towards the opposite shoulder. Do not force her legs further than they naturally go! This is quite good at relieving wind so you may end up with a trump/poo fest! I'll see if i can find a website for you with diagrams and more detailed instructions. Hope this helps.

[LRWG]

DD was taught this method by the midwives in hospital when DD was born:

Sit your baby on your knee and rotate her, (so that she looks like a weeble). Believe it or not it works wonders and is also funny to watch. Hope this helps.

[LRWG]

Doh - DH was taught by the midwives, not DD.

[ScaryHairy]

I used to find with my daughter that if I put her on my shoulder and walked up and down the stairs it helped. Swaddling was also useful. Infacol is not great for all babies so I would try one of the other remedies to see if that is more helpful.

The other thing is that IIRC lots of babies have a growth spurt at this age. Everytime my daughter had a growth spurt she would eat for Britain and it would make her behave as you describe because she would give herself tummy ache.

In any event, it is just a phase and it will pass!! (not helpful, I know, but it is true)

[hbmummy]

I bf almost all of the time - just the occaisional bottle when my nips need a break!

[hbmummy]

DH also says it will pass.... but bit unsure when I ask when

[Pannacotta]

I found sitting them up after a feed was the best way, as well as doing this say halfway through a feed if they started to fuss.
Gripewater is great for getting burps out but not sure you can use it with infacol, you could ask your chemist?
It does pass after a few months.

[Easywriter]

hbmummy i also bf (my 6 week old daughter)and at the moment my daughter behaves just as yours does, though it looks like wind, what it's actually been down to is hunger. My dd is definately having a growth spurt and cries to feed A LOT!

My technique (for bf) also needed a bit of tweaking (in terms of optimum position as she wanted to really glug it down) so it may be worth rechecking it all.

On the plus side for two evenings spent in front of the tv with my boobs out and dp fetching and carrying for me, dd slept striaght through for 2 nights!!! I don't think this'll last (and I spent the first night in a state of wakefullness as I checked and rechecked her to make sure she wasn't dead - paranoid third time mother? but she's much more cheery now, still hungry (my boobs are enormous with the milk she's produced) but not crying.

[hbmummy]

Running about a bit so short posts.... would be great if you can find a link for me Easywriter.

DH tries the weeble look with her and she does look really funny.

[LRWG]

Keep trying the Weeble method - it really helped our DD.

[hbmummy]

Easywriter - Does not seem like hunger to me. I burp DD1 immediately after feeding. She usually gives up a burp or two, relax a bit and then arches her back and cries. She will then relax a bit if I pat her back, but sometimes nothing could comfort her.

Sometimes in an effort to comfort her, I offer her the breast again. She would latch on, but after a few sucks, she would unlatch again in frustration and this repeats few time. I intrerpret this as she needs burping.

[Easywriter]

hbmummy - really struggling to find you a site. I'm still looking though.

[Easywriter]

ok got one

[[http://www.birthlight.com/public/com/imageviewer.aspx?title=Baby%20Yoga%20DVD%20-%20The%20B asic%20Baby%20Yoga%20Hip%20Sequence&dir=babyyogadvd&number=6&file=basic# baby yoga move that's great for clearing wind]

image 3 shows you the position you need, if your baby wants a further stretch point her leg to the opposite shoulder.

That conforting hold is called tiger in the tree.

[Easywriter]

baby yoga

[Easywriter]

Second time lucky!

[hbmummy]

Thanks Easywriter. We'll give some of these a try and see what the night brings us.

[Emprexia]

if you're having real trouble, the woodwards is good stuff.
You need to give it 10 minutes to work though.

DS was terrible to wind, even with Infacol, so i'd dose him with the woodwards, walk him around on my shoulder kept upright for 10 mins, then burp him by sitting him up, leaning him forward slightly, keeping his chin supported in my hand and patting his back firmly.

If you still struggle, very gently try and give his belly a slight squeeze, like we do to ourselves when we have indigestion.

also, distraction is a good way.. i sometimes think he kept those burps in on purpose, lol, so i'd wind him over my shoulder infront of the mirror or looking out the window, that seemed to help with the stubborn ones.