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Painful wind at bedtime - help!!!

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BrightonNim · 28/08/2007 19:46

Have a problem that is puzzling me - since 2 weeks old my baby
has had 2 bottle feeds for his evening feed, at 6.30pm and again at 10.30pm. 6.30pm used to be a top up but has become a feed on its own for the last month or so.
His other feeds are breast feeds. He is now 5 months old.

For the past fortnight we have been finding he is getting alot of wind after his
6.30pm feed, sometimes straight away which delays him going down to sleep, other times 30 mins after falling asleep
and on a couple of occasions no until about 9pm. This is most nights but not
every night.

He started weaning 1 month ago but have excluded it being any specific food as is happens some nights but not everynight and no pattern in terms of what he has eaten. We
have not changed the formula. At other times he breastfeeds.

He is using a size 2 Avent teat. About 1 month or so ago we tried size 3 but it
caused him awful wind - he was screaming in the middle of a feed.

We 'dreamfeed' him at 10.30pm and have not yet had any problems with wind.

When he wakes he is crying with pain, we pick him up, he burps fairly quickly (and if not we use gripewater, which usually works) and then goes back down without a fuss.

Do you have any suggestions what this could be? Help!!

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clearpebble · 04/10/2007 03:43

hey,
my son had the same problem from birth til about 5 months old. paediatrician recommended i use dentinox infant colic drops on each feed. it helped tremendously. try it.

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40karina · 12/12/2007 08:39

clearpebble, would you give before each milk feed too or just before the meals?

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Chacasta · 12/12/2007 20:41

Hi,

My LO used to get terrible wind, we used Infacol and gave one pipette (supplied with bottle) before every feed. Infacol works by kind of gathering all the air bubbles together so they all come up in one big belch (that's the scientific description there ) After 3 weeks it we took him off it and it seemed to have trained his tummy how to cope, we've not used it since.
HTH

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40karina · 12/12/2007 22:01

thanks, we used to give infacol at around 6wks and stopped after about 12...will give it a go again

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