foods to avoid for ebf farty baby?

[GirlWithTheMouseyHair]

DD is 6weeks and gets trapped wind leading to discomfort then violent farts. I'm going to start keeping a food diary but are there any foods I ought to avoid to help her out? She'll be fine for a few days then will have a tough day and not poo for 24hours+. Tried cutting out dairy, doesn't seem to have made much difference though

DS2 was an extremely farty baby (and still is a v windy child). I found cranial osteopathy and tummy massage (clockwise direction only) and cycling legs helped with trapped wind (he got it from around 4/5 weeks onwards - was much better by 3 months old). I also found avoiding spicy foods and sushi seemed to help rather - no idea why!

I think broccoli and cabbage are meant to be offenders.

yeah I've been doing all the tummy and leg exercises (DS was colicky) but like the idea of eating lots of sushi to help!

I find raw onion and broccoli give DS wind

Rather than looking at your milk/diet which is fairly unlikely to cause problems unless an allergy to cows' milk protein has been diagnosed, have you had the latch checked to see if she is taking air in while feeding (perhaps breaking latch frequently or chomping)? Is feeding going well? Are there any other concerns with baby?

Luckily, the foods that we traditionally associate with wind in adults is due to our stomachs being unable to break down the food well and bacteria fermenting what is left in our guts.

I say luckily, as it would be really horrible if bits of undigested brussel sprouts (and the bacteria that break them down) could get from our guts to our blood and into our breast milk .

That's not to say small flavour molecules don't pass through (vanilla and garlic are well known to pass through milk) and a baby may not like those but they can't cause the large volumes of gas that eating brussels/cauliflower/cabbage directly could.

My baby's been very farty from the start. I read that up to 3 months they don't understand that to fart they need to tense one sphincter and relax another. I found that getting him to relax through rocking or sucking helped.

yeah sucking def helps her I think - realised that she was refusing boob but rooting desperate to suck so when she's bad we giver her a dummy which has helped

Thanks all, will just continue what we're doing then

By the way, we taught our baby to self-soothe at around 10 weeks. We could have probably done it a bit sooner. When your baby's ready, you might find like us that she no longer needs to wake you for every fart :)