Sleepless baby! Wind?

[le4123]

Hi can anyone help!
My baby is 7/8 weeks old now and for the past few weeks she’s been suffering at night, grumbling away all night! Sometimes eyes closed sometimes open! I can tell she’s trying to sleep. At first we thought reflux so tried gavascon recommended by HV but didn’t make a difference to her sleepless nights! I’m thinking of trying Woodward’s gripe water but I’ve heard a few things about it being a no go? Has anyone used it and has it worked? Or does anyone know of any other good gripe waters without the sodium hydrogen carbonate which is one of the things I’ve read to avoid. Or anything else which has worked to help wind! She’s constantly trumping all night! So that’s why I’m suspecting it’s wind!

If anyone has any other ideas of what could be keeping her awake. I just want to help her get some much needed sleep as she’s also a very wide awake baby most days all day!

Gripe water just made my baby projectile vomit but I found dentinox worked a bit better!

My baby grew out of it by 12 weeks though, I think it’s just them learning how to use their body.

Is she uncomfortable or crying when she's like this?

Thanks for your replies
She’s not crying thank goodness. But she’s grumbling away all night, she will go quiet for a min or 2 but then she’s grumbling and fidgeting again which is what makes me think she’s uncomfortable.

OP we're in a similar situation. My baby will be seven weeks next week and has suddenly started refusing to sleep in her cot. She'll sort of sleep on me but she seems very grumbly and uncomfortable. And she squirms or grumbles in her cot. She's been crying a lot though too so it sounds a bit worse. I also wondered about reflux or wind. I keep going back and forth with what I could be. She also sounds quite congested. Have you had any luck with anything? Could it just be a phase at this age?!

Hi there! I have gone ahead with the gripe water and she seems to burp more and quicker most time I have used it. I’m only giving my baby 1ml even though the dose says 5ml.
She’s so settled that at night she’s going for long stretches of sleep! But the difference is so drastic I’m wondering if it’s knocking her out! Anyone had a similar experience with gripe water?

My baby is the same. Just turned 6 weeks. Mainly breastfed but had to to top ups from 1 week old for weight gain. I think it is the bottle and formula causing the wind but also immature digestive system and pretty common.

I have been using infacol and bought anti colic bottles and either these have made a difference or hos digestive system is maturing and coping better as he is better than a fee weeks ago.

I also bough earplugs to block out the grumbling when he is still asleep as was walking me every 20 mins. You can still here when you are needed.

Anyone had any joy? Anything helped?

We tried infacol with our little boy but it didn't seem to help...a lot of my friends suggested dentinox...we used to put it in his bottle of milk and it definitely helped...he only had to have it for a bit...also we had a Snuz pod 2 and we put it on the slight recline position as that's ment to help...maybe try a slight incline on ur Moses basket if u don't have the snuzpod xx

We do have her on an incline pillow to help with her reflux. To me it seems to be at the other end though, wind or discomfort digesting. I really can’t figure it out but her sleep seems to be getting less and less and more disrupted. I’m finding it very hard to accept how little sleep she’s getting it’s driving me mad! I’m so worried about her. Just want to find something to help so badly.