Your child is windy b/c you breastfeed

[expatinscotland]

Don't get me wrong, I love my parents. I do. But they are older generation, to say the least.

So I'm breastfeeding. It's knackering. She still wants to eat every 2 hours. She's 2 weeks old. Of course, the reason she wants to eat so much, according to a man who was breastfed himself for TWO YEARS, is that she's not getting enough to eat at the breast.

She's a windy baby - aren't they all? She's gassy, and it takes a while to get wind out of her. No biggie, she's pooping fine, urinating fine, gaining weight, etc.

she gets hiccups a lot. she got hiccups in the womb. a lot.

But there's my dad, telling me to give her water - she doesn't need water, dad, she's breastfed - and to 'see what the doctor says'.

I didn't have the heart to tell him I lived with two doctors, had affairs with others, and they were no more intelligent than I am, so I don't put all my confidence in them. . One was far dumber than I was, yet he's been unleashed on an unsuspecting populace to practice medicine. So there you go. I also worked with loads of them in a women's clinic. Needless to say, that combined w/being a born cynic has modified my trust in many doctors.

Then there was the ol' - when you wouldn't sleep, we gave you a bottle w/cereal in it.

WTF?!

Expat, alex is very windy. she is 5 days old now and midwife advised infacol!perfectly normal with bf babies apparently!have dh nan here at mo and she has been saying same as your dad but in hospital the midwife said that new guidelines say no water for babies at all breast or bottle fed! alex does tend to be gassier at different times of day/ night though! Have found a dummy helps her to bring up wind.

My stock response was to nod, say "Yes, Dad (or Mum, or MIL, or whoever), I'll bear that in mind", then ignore them and carry on doing what I was doing. You are an intelligent and well-informed woman, you know he's talking rubbish.

To the "We gave you a bottle with cereal in it", I'd be tempted just to say "Well, that explains a lot" ...

It's lovely that people feel that you're warm and welcoming enough for them to be able to give you advice, isn't it?

Hope they're understanding enough in return not to mind when you pay bog all attention because it's a load of old fanny, eh!

EPIS, if it's possible to be unpatronisingly proud of someone I've never met, I am of you You're doing SO well!

DD2 used to belch like a bloke leaving the pub after six pints - it was truly impressive. And her sister used to fart incredibly loudly. I feel quite sentimental at the memory now.

Tell em Doctors know bugger all about breastfeeding - they don't need to - doctors see sick people your dd is perfectly healthy. Just doing what a 2 week old does.