Windy Baby...

[tedebear]

Hi All, just looking for a little advice or your experiences...Arthur is 7 weeks old (and well over 10 pounds) and has always been a windy baby but recently its got worse... He's doing about 5 oz's (bottle fed formula) every 3 hours in the day and sleeps nearly through the night (til 5am when he has a few ounces and goes back to sleep til 7:30am)...

Basically what happens is we start a feed happily and after about 3 ounces things go wrong. He stops and pulls his feet up to his chest and goes blue around the mouth - classic wind symptoms - so I give him some pats on the back to burp him. It takes about 5 minutes of patting to get any burps up and then he starts crying and gulping air and gets more windy. I try the bottle again he'll take a few big sucks and then cry, so I start winding him again until he burps. If he gets really crying I stick him dummy in (hate doing this but it calms him) then I try the bottle again, and so on. We eventually finish a feed about 40 mins later with an exhausted little boy, who usually then needs a nap well before time, and a sad Mummy that I'm hurting him.

Does anyone have any tricks for wind relief?? I've tried infacol for about 3 weeks now and don't think I should continue it as it obviously isn't helping... He was finishing 5oz bottles previously so I'm not sure why he would want less??

Any advice or similar experiences would be gratefully received...He's doing fine but it is getting very frustrating to have these battles every feed.

Thanks!!

[mum2evie]

hi my dd is bf and is just as windy we don't seem to be getting on with infacol but i have heard that gripe water is helpful so have brought some today, there is also colief, but it is £10 a box.

Can i ask what bottle you use, i express off for her evening feed and we use a mam bottle which helps there are lots on the market and i've also heard B free are very good.

Good luck

[mum2evie]

hi my dd is bf and is just as windy we don't seem to be getting on with infacol but i have heard that gripe water is helpful so have brought some today, there is also colief, but it is £10 a box.

Can i ask what bottle you use, i express off for her evening feed and we use a mam bottle which helps there are lots on the market and i've also heard B free are very good.

Good luck

[Holymoly321]

tedebear - your ds sounds exactly like mine! He has all the symptoms that you describe, was taking 5-6 ozs formula each feed then stopped and it was a battle to get him to feed etc. I'm trying infacol at the moment and fingers crossed I'm hoping it will do the trick. Sorry, no specific advice for you, but just wanted to let you know that someone else is going through EXACTLY the same thing. BTW, DS is 8 weeks old and now weighs 12lbs 10!! I'd posted a thread about his reduction in feeds and someone said it's normal. We'll have to wait and see how his weight goes. mum2evie, we use avent bottles - supposed to help reduce colic etc.

[doormat]

try feeding him an ounce or two at a time and then wind him
then carry on with rest of bottle, in same manner

also when winding I found that rubbing babies left side in circular motion instead of patting on back brought it up quicker

let me know if this works for you

[doormat]

I used to do this too ding dong with my babies but i found rubbing left side removed stubborn wind
but maybe it is just my lot that were like this