How to burp an unburpable baby

[Nobhobs]

If I hold him upright, eventually, the burp will come out, but not for ages and he writhes in pain and cries until it does. Over the shoulder patting and rubbing doesn't work, sitting him over my knee doesn't work (he attempts to throw himself in every direction so I can't actually burp him in this position as it takes two hands to stop him flailing about)

Any tips? Weird or wonderful?

Gripe water worked wonders for us. Have you tried it?

Google the baby tiger in a tree hild. It worked really well for mine when they were that small.

Have you tried laying him down and doing a tummy rub instead.

Feed the baby upright - whilst walking about and patting the back too if you can manage it. Using a carrier helps. Then just walk about with the baby upright some more (again the carrier helps but a nice light one so you can pat the back) I never really winded mine just did the above and it happened naturally. Even if they were crying and wiggling about at least I was getting something done at the same time

Hold them upright however is comfortable and then gentle wiggle their middles. I am an awful baby burper and this was the only way I could get any out.

Might be difficult if he's wriggly but sitting them up on my lap and tipping them forward and back has worked best with all of mine.

I do it myself too if I've got trapped wind and no one's around

Hold baby in a sitting position on your knee with his/her back straight. One hand on chest and one on back with fingers together and pointing up as if you were putting them together to pray (but someone stuck a baby between them) and gently press your hands against baby’s chest and back. Always worked for mine.

Holding him so he’s belly down, with your arm pushing on his belly - I don’t know if I’m explaining this well!

How old is he @Nobhobs?

Dd was like this. A night feed took 1.5hours sheerly because of winding. Infacol helped.

Laying her over our knee, rubbing then patting then sitting up and leaning backwards than bending forwards helped.

Holding her over my shoulder whilst rubbing her back and bouncing her up and down whilst walking pretty much always worked and figure of 8s did too.

It's painful, I remember it well. She's 7months now and only needs winding once a bottle and tends to manage it herself thank goodness.

Hipp organic milk was a game changer for us too.

He's 4 weeks old. Thanks for suggestions, will try them all out today

Awe poor you. My dd was terrible. Really terrible. Forever pumping too.

Infacol can be used from newborn if you want to give that a go. It collects all the air together so it comes out in one big burp.

Hipp organic was just gentler on her tummy.

We gave DD infacol. She was formula fed on Aptamil at first but she started to get bad wind and projectile vomiting when they changed the powder so we swapped to SMA but carried on with the Infacol. She struggled to bring her wind up without it.

This is going to sound strange but it works pretty much every time. Sit baby upright on the end of your knee. Support their back with one hand and hold them under their chin with your other hand, with muslin too if necessary. Then gently rotate them on their bum in circular motions. So they’re sat upright but the top half their body is moving in a circular way. Keep changing directions. Also try wiggling them backwards/forwards and side to side. Patting never worked well for either of mind but this did.

Walk them up and down the stairs. Sort of jiggles the air out

Poor baby, wind is horrible.

Try lying baby on their back & rubbing your hand across their belly from left to right and down their right leg (pressure is firm-ish), in 1 movement. Then gently push their knees in towards their chest.

Doing this 4-5 times in a row generally worked for my DCs when they were little & unable to burp.

The only thing that worked for me was holding DD upright and walking up and down stairs in an exaggerated manner.

Another bore for Tiger in the Tree.

i found gripe water good for burps

I was going to say exactly the same as @stoplickingthetelly The nurses in SCBU showed us this and it worked a charm.

I'm crap at baby winding but my DP is some sort of baby winding whisperer and he does the on your knee back and forwards thing too

My dd was like this. I have cooled camomile tea from a sterile teaspoon. Worked like a charm. It was like an off switch to the crying.

My youngest DD used to be difficult to burp but if I laid her back and sat her up slowly it all came bubbling up

Walk up and down stairs

Mine used to be terrible for this, laying him down and then sitting him up slowly worked, but the best one was to hold him up on your shoulder and then tapping his bottom quite firmly, a bit like tapping the bottom of a coke can. It never failed!😀

Hold baby in a sitting position and move the top half of their body in circle motions x