Trapped wind in newborn

[AussieGirl78]

Hi, I have a 6 day old bub bottle fed bub who is suffering terribly from trapped wind and is in awful pain

someone got him some gripe water but it says only for month old babies up

Does anyone have any ideas on easing the pain - we're trying all the wind positions with no luck!

I'm no expert but didn't want your post to go unanswered. I think you get different types of bottles/teats which are intended to reduce the amount if wind a baby takes in. Maybe try one of those.
Also I was told that warmth on the tummy eases the pain - some sort of hot water bottle or one if those things you put in the microwave?
Hope that is some help.

You can use Infacol and Colief under a month, IIRC.

Lots of tiger in the tree holding.

Preserve with it - it used to take up to twenty minutes to get a single burp out of my DS at times, so just keep rubbing, patting, moving around, pulling legs straight until it happens.

What type of bottles / teats / formula are you using?

Aussiegirl, I also second Colief - you can use from birth, just add it to the bottle. Infacol seems to come in 'natural' orange flavour, which seems a bit weird for newborns, who wouldn't know an orange flavour from an orangutan flavour. No reason not to try it, but colief seemed flavourless when I tasted it, and doesn't seem to cause my baby any fuss. And did seem to make wind better, although he's still damn windy. (BF baby, so no bottles/teats to be experimented with, he's stuck with what he's got!)

Would you consider baby massage? You could find out from your HV or midwife what age you can start locally from. My DD is now 19 weeks old (alot older than your DC I understand) and when we massage her tummy and back she burps and pops alot so it clearly helps to disperse her wind. Some people say you can start massage from birth, other places recommend 6 weeks I think. Your HV should be able to tell you.

Have you tried a tummy tub? Got great reviews on mothercare website I am about to invest!

I recommend Bio gaia probiotic drops. They are kind of like yakult but for babies, can be used from newborn. My DS had trapped wind and was in agony with it every evening. We tried colief, dentinox, gripe water and infacol, but only Bio gaia did the job. He was almost instantly better and wind came up much easier.

It's not very well known about and quite expensive (about £20 for 4-6 weeks supply) but definitely worth every penny.

my DD had a problem with trapped wind. We used gripe water (from about 1 week, GP said it was fine), infacol and dentanox with some success but got loads of relief from using camomile tea in her formula.

We made up a weak tea (1 teabag per 1ltr steeped for about 10 min) and used it to make her bottles up with. It worked brilliantly for us. DD was able to burp easily after each feed and the deep wind seemed to resolve without the pain and discomfort she used to suffer.

For us, easing trapped wind has been something that we as adults have had to learn to do - and we weren't very good at it the first few weeks! DS is now 7 weeks and we've got it down to a fine art - at the same time, he's now able to help himself a little.

It will pass but some bottles are definitely better than others and so we've experimented. :)

AussieGirl - hope some of the ideas here help you. Is a return to breastfeeding possible for you, I wonder? It would not be too late if you felt it was an option.

breastfed babies get trapped wind too

Colief drops.

Massage, but be careful which way round you massage. It has to be the right direction.

We used to make DD2 do lots of bicycling (not sure from what age) and that got some rip roaring results.

ps. i thought my tummy tub was a rubbish waste of money.
Never got used, we preferred the bath that you lay ontop of your own bath.

We found anti colic bottles from MAM much better than standard NUK ones as they let air out whilst DC drinks.

They were quite a bit older than 6 days when they got round to bottles (8 months).

And skin to skin, with a bit of circular rubbing of their back is often very soothing for them and the warmth helps relieve trapped wind.

Make sure that if your rubbing his tummy you are going clockwise.