DOES THIS SOUND LIKE MILK INTOLERANCE or something else? Or just a grumpy baby??

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Hi I am losing my mind once again. DS is 3 weeks old and is seriously never awake and content which makes me feel so sad. DD was the same when she was a baby for the first 18 months and all the health visitors and GPs kept brushing it under the carpet and kept saying some babies are just hard work etc etc.

DS is constantly gassy no matter how much we burp him. He burps fine usually but will be straining and grunting constantly and passing wind no joke all the time. He cries and screams all day long. Wakes frequently and is extremely hard to get back to sleep because he is grunting and farting endlessly. He is never happy for more than a few seconds and nothing I do seems to soothe him. He was badly constipated and has been prescribed lactalose to loosen the stools which seems to have worked and he now poos once a day.

He is breast fed (I express usually now as he was terrible on the boob) but even now stuggles when he feeds and seems to be in pain sometimes pulling off the bottle and crying whilst pulling his legs up. It was just such hard work last time and the thought of another year or more of this while he grows out of it is killing me. I really wanted to enjoy it this time.

Please can someone explain to me what is going on?

Tiktok is right, cutting dairy out of your diet is a right PITA, but I have to say that it is probably easier than trying to persuade a reluctant baby to drink hydrolysed formula which tastes less than great. I spent months and months trying to find an acceptable one for DS and it was hugely traumatic all round.

I reckon it's got to be worth a try.

OP - just asking again.....are you sure he was constipated?

narmada I found it was easiest to introduce over a few days ie swap one 1oz per bottle per day until baby takes 100% hydrolysed formula. He never complained once!

Though of course that was before his symptoms got so much worse. I doubt I'd be able to do that now.

Hi, sorry I don't have time to read the whole thread, my 10wk old DD will be awake any moment

Whe DD was 3/4 weeks she was like this, EBF and would grunt and strain and scream until she finally did a poo, every 3-4 days. I thought it was because she didn't know how to go to the toilet IYSWIM? She had the feeling but wasn't co-ordinated enough, it definitely wasn't constipation as when she did go it would be runny (a BF poo).

What really helped us is Cranial Osteopathy, have you heard of it? Basically the Osteopath (you have to find one that specialises in CO for babies) did some work on her gut (where we heard some huge rumbles while he was working on her) and advised me to eat lots of fresh vitamin C - about 5 oranges/satsumas a day and if possible take probiotics (half a tub of probiotic live yoghurt a day) to develop her gut. The session was about £40 but we only had one and that very day she did a poo and did one every day thereafter. Nowadays she goes every 2 days or so but we don't have the same screaming as we did.

That was my experience, HTH!