According to my HV 'it is very rare for a breastfed baby to wake up form a nap crying due to wind', is this true?

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dd2 nurses to sleep, its the only way to get her to nap, that and putting the hoover on, which is driving me mad for various reasons. So i'll feed her to sleep but she'll almost always wake up after yelping horribly (even if i burp her in her sleep after the feed), and when i lift her she'll do a big belch or two and then cry and rub her eyes because she's still tired. when i told this to my health visitor she said 'thats very rare, you must have very wind producing milk' or something to that effect. anyway this worried me a little- is it really 'rare' and when will this phenomenum go away as it is meaning lack of daytime sleep for my lo.

She's talking COMPLETE SHIT.
As most of them seem to.

agree with moondog there

i ffed my ds and my friend bfed - they were born a day apart. both had dreadful wind problems, so it obviously wasn't true in her case...

Do bf babies get wind? Mine didn't as far as I can remember.

I'll tell you what's very rare - a HV who knows what she's talking about. Absolute rubbish.

'Wind' like colic is just a vague catch all term for the unease small babies experience for Gpowd only knows what reaon.

It's hard enough dealing with a colicky baby without some numpty suggesting that your body is causing it.

Silly cow.

nope, all mine have been troubled with wind when asleep and all were bf. It's just one of them didn't settle at all well once disturbed by it

nineunlikely tales, i'm ROFL.
agree totally.

its definitely wind though, she'll do huge burps the second i pick her up and it happens more or less every single time she feeds to sleep, but never happens when she falls asleep by other methods.

dd suffered with tremendous wind when she was first born, up to 4+ months i think. she was and still is bf. much better now tho or maybe she saves it until she has some privacy!

dd is almost 6 months old.. when does this get better then?

all 3 of my breastfed babies did exactly this
it's normal
your health visitor is talking shite

My 3 month old does it all the time - I can't remember the other 2 doing it, but it was 8 and 10 years ago, and I'm sure they probably did.

HV's are great things, aren't they!

My two were both BF and never had wind, I nursed to sleep a lot and never bothered winding them even when I fed sitting up they maybe had a burp and that was it. I was baffled when you see people holding babies chins up and rubbing their backs furiously. I thought FF babies took in more air as they sucked from the bottle. But I think some babies are just prone to wind nothing to do with breastfeeding, why would feeding your baby naturally cause it to feel very uncomfortable and cry. Also think your HV is talking shit how can your milk be windy?

Is it tummy wind or gut wind? My 2 week old is suffering really badly from wind in her gut, it happens about half hour to two hours after a feed and is very painful for her. She is breastfed, and it really unsettles her sleep.

We have been seeing a cranial osteopath about it, he things something about her delivery affected her spine and the nerves that go to her gut which means food is fermenting in there without being digested properly. He solved the problem for about a week then we had a relapse. Just been again today so fingers crossed it gets better again!

DD used to produce the most impressive trucker burps when being winded, and then every night would wake up about 2am crying, only to do some even more impressive trucker farts...so yes, they do get wind as she was EBF!

(apologies to all you truckers....)

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Echo what Oops said about wind coming back to haunt you. I finally realised it's better to wake them after a feed to burp than them get a few minutes nap and wake up grumpy as hell and overtired.

TBH, I think you're better off finding other ways to get her off to sleep, if you possibly can.

Have you tried shushing/ patting? I never believed babies actually responded to shushing until I had DD2 recently and realised I didn't have the time or energy to nurse her to sleep all the time.

I was told about the 5 S's for babies under about 3 months. (Not sure how old your LO is.)
Side - lie them on their sides (in your arms if needs be)
Swaddle - obvious
Shush - Shush them quite strongly, about the same noise level as a tap on full blast - not directly in the ear but "past" the ear
Shiver - make small movements which aren't quite rocking them, but more like the same amount of movement as shivering. (Baby Whisperers use patting in the middle of the back instead and I find this works for me.)
Sucking - give them a dummy as a last resort.

I find if I do the first three or four together she goes off in less than 5 mins - never more than 10.

I find DD2 doesn't need to burp after night feeds as she's so sleepy and relaxed that she doesn't take in a lot of air, but she really needs burping after daytime feeds.

Also, I find if I put her down and she makes those "half smile" faces and wriggles around that's a good indication that she needs further winding.

HTH.

Oh, and I think the HV is confusing the fact that BF babies often have less wind than FF babies and some don't get wind at all, but it's not a hard and fast rule.

lol, rainbow! it sounds like you make fizzy milk. and is that because you drink fizzy pop? how DO you carbonate BM?

Hv is talking rubbish.

I asked the MW when I was in hospital a question about the best position for winding and she said that bf babies don't need to be winded.

Well my DS was extremely windy right from the very start, you should hear the belches that come out.

He always needs winded in the middle of a feed otherwise he refuses to eat anymore and starts screaming.

My DS was a super burpy and farty b/fed baby. Even now he is weaned and on bottles he's still a tad gassy. I presume its down each individual baby.

I never winded my (exclusively) breastfed babies.
The whole winding thing is vastly overrated.

moondog- but both my babies are far happier once they have been winded, even if i have to spend a good half hour winding them. (dd1 is 2 now but was like that for the first ten months). they wail and wail until a good belch or two comes out. you have obviously been blessed with babies with good digestion or you would be saying otherwise!

God no,dd was a right whinger.
Ah well,too late now!