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.

Good for you Moondog.

I'm obviously doing the wrong thing by winding my baby.

My exclusively breastfed baby shrieks and shrieks in the middle of feeds and refuses to go back on until the wind comes out.

Perhaps I should just leave him to his pain as winding is so overrated.

I think some babies are just more windy than others whether they are FF or BF.
DS1 was windy and would bob around when feeding when he needed a burp - sadly I didnt realise this for a while as I believed the MW who told me BF babies dont need winding - but after burping/being winded he'd calm down and feed more.
DS2 also windy and breaks off and yells during a feed and is much happier after winding and big belch. He then wants to feed more.
I agree its worth winding these type of babies after a feed (rather than letting them just fall asleep) as both you and they will get more sleep that way.

I had the same as Chirpy girl, now (6 months) the farts aren't a problem and he does wet burps - yeugh! But up to 4 months would wake up every 90 minutes to 2 hours in pain - I used to take his nappy off after a feed and make him exercise his legs for a timed 10 minutes even at 3 in the morning! then he might go 3 hours.

SachaF how does the nappy off/leg waving thing help? Is this for digestive purposes?
If only babies could tell us what they need life would be much simpler

Speaking as a HV myself - your HV is talking crap. Some babies suffer and some don't - lots of breast fed babies don't get troubled by wind but some do - mine did. It's not "rare" though.

Bit defensive trixymalixy - what works for you doesn't necessarily for others and vice versa.

Pannacotta - same theory as to why runners fart more than non runners! Movement of the legs seemed to help release wind, I also found that when he had nappy off time on his stomach pre bath that was when he was most likely to do a poo - at two months he kept seeming like he wanted to crawl (still not quite there b4 you get too shocked) and this leg movement really helped release it all. HTH!

Must add - real nappies - I think they hinder leg movement a bit so hence why took nappy off. Seeing as I'd change every feed anyway...

I absolutely agree nineunlikelytales that every baby is different and what works for some doesn't work for others.

Some of us are unlucky enough to have babies that suffer badly from wind other babies feed easily and don't need winded.

Being smug about it and suggesting that winding is overrated is not particularly helpful and actually quite annoying when you've just spent half an hour trying to wind a wailing baby.

It's hardly a choice whether to wind or not.

Do runners fart more then??
Really??
I'm a runner and I never fart.
Or rather,only do teeny weent rose scented ones.

Never come across the 'wind is all in the mother's imagination' brigade before. Do you think they are the same people who claim teething doesn't really hurt or cause any symptoms?

Because clearly mothers are idiots generations of us have failed to notice the non-existence of wind or teething.