Did dropping caffeine help your gassy/colicky baby?

[pennyfig]

Hi!
We've a 6 week old who is predominantly formula fed but I breastfeed him for comfort pretty often.
I drink quite a lot of tea - perhaps four or five cups a day sometimes.
Baby is very, very gassy constantly, and sometimes has episodes of what may he described as colic ( sometimes inconsolable, arching back, screaming, wailing, sometimes for up to an hour.)
While I'm only comfort feeding, so baby might be latching for ten minutes here, ten there - could caffeine in my breast milk be the/a culprit?
Has anyone cut it out and noticed a less gassy/less colicky baby?

Thanks :-)

The foods that upset your baby are likely to be different than those that upset other people's babies, and you can only really find out what they are by a process of trial and error and elimination. By all means cut out the tea if you want to and see if it makes a difference. When I was breast feeding I eventually learnt that my children were upset by broccoli, cottage cheese, any pork products and anything in the date / raisin / grape / sultana family. No idea why these were so bad for us but it made such a difference when I knew to avoid them.

My daughter was (I assumed) gassy/colicky as a small baby and I cut out Everything they recommend trying - caffeine, dairy, spicy foods, garlic/alliums, cruciferous veg... Tried the lot! Didn't work 🙄 she is 12 now and turns out she is just extremely sensitive to any physical (or emotional) discomfort 🤷🏼‍♀️ looking back at baby photos of myself I am always grouchy or crying - a running joke in the family 😂 - so she clearly takes after me!

I know this doesn't really help you but I hadn't really thought about it till now 🤷🏼‍♀️ I just got adept at soothing in the appropriate positions (her, not me) and rode it out. Hope you find some solution!

Which bottles are you using? My FF baby was horrendous with wind after MAM, even though loads of people swear by them. We got on well with the Dr Brown’s ones with the green stick to vent them. Can’t hurt to cut things from your diet but if it’s only comfort feeding then I’d be looking more to the formula/bottle.

Have you had their latch checked?