When does gassy baby start getting better?

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My baby is 4 weeks old and for the last 1-2 weeks is suffering with so much gas! We do bicycle like exercises a lot and lots of gas comes out but he still seems to have so much in that bothers him! It affects his sleeping from about 3 am - he is grunting and pulling legs and straining so much, it is hard to watch. We help him to pass the gas and it seems to helm but then 40 min later he starts straining again. So we just continue this cycle for the rest of the night. And then it continues throughout the day - he just falls asleep and wakes up 5 min later straining. We started gripe water yesterday - hopefully it will help a bit.

I just need some hope to keep me going - when will it start getting better? Not necessarily gone completely, but some improvement? Is it 2 more weeks? Another month?

It does promise! Our little one had severe colic and reflux. The gas was awful, constantly waking up screaming with gas! It turned out he had CMPA - As soon as we were out in prescription formula (Neocate LCP) He was a different baby, he was about 10 weeks by this point and i was quite literally at rock bottom with it all!
A good tummy massage also was good after a bath, just below the belly button, put some pressure on (you think it’s too much but it won’t be) And always go clockwise! Might help before bed, sending hugs! It WILL pass!

I'd say 4 weeks was unusual to be so gassy but within the range of normal.

Can I ask how your are feeding LO?

If it's BFing, have they been checked for Tongue Tie?

If it's FFing I'd ditch the Gripe Water and start adding Dentinox to the bottles. If that doesn't work I'd switch to a comfort formula, like Hipp Comfort and if that doesn't work either I think you may be looking at Tongue Tie or Cow's Milk Protein Allergy.

When we changed from BF to formula my daughter was really gassy. I tried everything and nothing helped. It weren't until I changed formula that it stopped (on a complete whim - none of the stores had our usual formula so I picked up one similar) She was much more comfortable straight away