Gassy baby - 3 weeks old - should I give up dairy??

[Newmom2b]

As the title says really.... My ds is 3 weeks old and suffers from bad gas and spends a lot of time during the night grunting and groaning... I have read a few things suggesting that giving up dairy will help this as I breastfeed?
Has anybody else done this and what were the results?
I had toast yesterday instead of cereal and think I noticed a difference but not sure!! Have just read a list of all dairy products and not sure if I can go without chocolate but obviously if it's best for my gorgeous ds and will stop his pain I'll do anything! X

If he is only grunting and groaning and not actually awake and in distress, you don't need to do anything :) This is what many babies do - maybe they are reacting to wind/gas in the tummy, who knows, but whatever....it's not a sign anything is wrong or that they are in pain.

Giving up dairy is drastic, unlikely to have an effect, and a waste of time. A very few babies are allergic/intolerant to diary proteins sneaking into the breastmilk but these babies have far more 'florid' symptoms than grunting and groaning.

We had similar problems with DS and I spent his first few weeks trying to correlate what I'd eaten to how "gassy" he was as it seemed to be interrupting his sleep and/or stopping him settling. I considered dairy, chilli, tomatoes, strawberries, broccoli but whenever I thought I'd found something it soon got contradicted and so I gave up.

Happily at around 7 weeks it got better - not sure if the amount of gas actually reduced but he seemed far less disturbed by it as he got older.

Don't post and run, newmom2b :)

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