Windy 5 week old, slow weight gain.

[tiredandgrumpy]

Dd is 5 weeks old and exclusively bf. She has been slow to put on weight, but hv is not concerned and seems to have checked her thoroughly. Dd suddenly went 4 days with no poo, got increasingly uncomfortable, then did a huge poo. She immediately seemed more comfortable and was fine for a day or so, but no more poos. She's getting uncomfortable again and is clearly in pain. She seems to have been very gassy. Do I need to worry, or is this just normal. I have 2 older dcs, but have not had a baby so clearly in pain all day before.

Aw, it is rotten seeing them uncomfortable.

Could she have tongue tie? Can be hard to spot. Or poss reacting to anything in your diet?

HAve you got a local bfing group? They can 'tweak' latch to make it even better and minimise wind.

Have you tried massage to help the poo/gas out? DD1 suffered terribly with it, and the "colic massage" the HV showed me helped alot (look on uTube)

DD2 has been a bit gassy too, but it's got better since I've been paying more attention to getting a really good latch

I second getting along to a bf drop in to get the latch checked out, and check for TT. When you DC does poo is it nice yellow bm poo. Is she weeing plenty? I also recomend the massage baby massage can help loads with gas and it is also shown to help with weight gain if I remember correctly. most sure start centres run a class so maybe give your local one a call.