My 3 week old has terrible problems with wind, any suggestions?

[YummyMummy1208]

From pretty much day 1 my little girl has suffered terrible discomfort from wind when feeding. so much so that on occasions we have to spend 5 to 7 hours rocking and comforting her to stop her crying out in pain and just to get her to go to sleep.

Its horrible seeing her in such pain but also my 2 yr old is getting neglected due to me having to hold her for most of the day as each time she feeds its 1 or 2 hours after that she finally settles down, then her next feed is due soon after that so my poor little boy is left to entertain himself pretty much all day bless him.

I have used infacol, which didnt really do much to be honest and am currently using dentinox drops which seem to help the wind come up but shes still bringing her knees up in pain after nearly every bottle so its obviously not helping enough.
We have also changed her onto Dr Browns bottles to see if that will help and have changed her formula to Aptamil.

Iv just purchased some colief drops online so once they arrive i will try them out but wondered if any other parents have suffered this and how did you overcome it? I would really really like to get more than 1 or 2 hours sleep in a row sometime soon so please, any suggestions muchly welcomed!

Hi my DS now 4 was exactly the same as a baby. I remember having very little sleep as by the time he finally settled after a feed he would be due for another one soon after! We did all of the things you have done but changed his milk to cow and gate comfort. I think it aids digestion.

I also did baby massage on his tummy and moved his legs up and down and around like he was riding a bike. Sounds silly but i think it helped a bit.

It's hard to say if any of it really worked but at 12 weeks he just grew out of it. It literally happened overnight.

Sorry i can't be much help, but it does get better, i promise.

I had the same thing with DD (now 13 weeks) it stopped at about 8 weeks.
My health visitor suggested that when i winded her to put her high up on my shoulder and walk up and down the stairs with her in that position... worked a treat!

This video is great - try these techniques to get the bum wind out

Also swaddling helped our DS and the occasional use of a dummy.

DS actually had reflux and cows milk protein intolerance so it didn't get better until we fixed that.

We did find that he settled better if we lay him on his left hand side or propped him more upright for day naps either on me or in a bouncy chair.

Have just been through a similar phase with my dd who is now 12 weeks. Tried it all, she had been on Aptamil normal, and changed her to Aptamil colic/easy digest, and she improved within days

DD had wind in much the same way that you describe. It was agonising for everyone involved.

We switched bottles from Avent to TT CTN which helped and we became experts at various massage and burping techniques. We also used Dentanox and gripe water. All of these things helped somewhat but the the thing that made the biggest difference was the advice of a herbalist friend who suggested we make DD's bottles up using cammomile tea.

The difference was amazing and happened very quickly. The gripe water and dentanox had helped bring up the burps but had never done much for the deep intestinal wind she seemed to get. the cammomile seemed to soothe this almost immediately.

We would put one cammomile teabag into a litre of hot water and let it steep and cool for a few minutes then make up the bottles with it.

Obviously it is up to you if you try it. I thoroughly recommend it though.

Thanks for the advice, i did think she had gotten through the worst of it today until she woke around 8pm and shes currently crying upstairs on my partners shoulders (im having 10 minutes to chill as im getting a tad stressed now!)

I may try the cammomile tea thing, will have to pop out to town tomorrow and buy some of it thanks

Other than that i think ill have to just wait it out! eek!

I had terrible trouble with my ds it's the most horrible thing to watch them cry and cry and there's nothing you can do. We tried everything on the market but in the end it was cranial osteopathy that gave us and him some relief. It wasn't a complete cure but it did ease things and a bit like needtoleepmore's little one he grew out of it overnight at about 12 weeks. It will get better - hang in there.

Well ive been out today and got some camomile tea, changed her formula to the comfort version of the same brand and now just need to wait for these colief drops to come in the post!
She was the same thismorning - hard to settle and had to take her out in the car to get her to actually settle around 1:30pm so im thinking tonite will be another struggle but i have stocked up on Kalms to keep my sanity!

Hi

on top of all this good advice, carrrying baby around upright in sling - like a baby bjorn - brings up wind a treat - and then they sleep.... result!

we went to cranial osteopath when our son was a couple of months old. She reckoned he had trapped wind lower down the gut (of the trapped fart variety!) we found that did seem to help

lastly, we did find with infacol, we had to use it religiously, and for several days to notice a difference then use for every feed.