Winding baby - any special tricks?

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Hello everyone
I am a new mum. DD is BF well but gets quite windy and I seem to be quite inept at helping her out. Anyone have any special tricks they'd share?
Thank you very much.

Tiktok - How is it misleading when people speak of a blue tinge actually happening to their children, it doesn't have to happen to every baby for it to be an occurence that is worth mentioning. Anyway you have taken over this thread which is supposed to be helping a new Mum wind her baby, not argue about whether something may or may not occur. I hope you are not that opionated when being a breastfeeding counseller.
You say that babies strain and push their arms and legs out when thay have wind, but I do not remember any of mine mine doing that, they only strained when doing a poo!! So you are generalising and obviously mis guiding mums if you tell them that 'all' babes do that if they have wind. Maybe you should lighten up a little and agree that some things may just be possible without your knowledge.

It isn't blue as such though is it, it is more of a greyish tinge, but let us not split hairs eh?

Excuse my spelling, I'm not stupid, just tired!

well...the only way I ever came to grips with winding was over the shoulder....could never get the hang of anything else...
saying that, mostly I didn't need to wind they would spew up lovely without....just by being lifted off the boob!

ponygirl, of course I am not like this as a breastfeeding counsellor....I'd scare every mother off

I did not say babies push their arms and legs out when they have wind! I said straining and pushing arms and legs out is normal baby behaviour, and it is....it's not a sign of anything except being a baby.

Some things are certainly possible without my knowledge, and when some things happen which do not make much sense, I like to know if there is any good evidence for them, and how they might work....that's all.

Last word on the topic from me. If people want to believe that wind in the stomach can cause mild cyanotic symptoms in the baby's face, then they can - I've put the commonsense view and I'll leave it there.

I've long thought that 'wind' was just a way of giving a name to the normal unsettled kind of behaviour babies exhibit sometimes. My mother in law is always banging on about wind when I know mine just needed a feed/cuddle/were tired. Have never actively winded mine but perhaps I'm just lucky. I also suffer from painful trapped wind as an adult and my lips have never gone blue...

On the cyanotic look...all mine were pale Babies and they all looked easily cyanotic...but tbh, I think it is more down to lighting, etc....
true cyanosis might be a sign of somehting more sinister, tbh...or of a child that has blue/pallid breatholding thing going on...( my ys did a lot of that, and he looked freaking frightening when he had an episode, I mean, he really looked cyanotic and/or dead)

SydneyB -I couldn't agree with you more .

It's worth bearing in mind that all human beings have rather a lot of sind during 24hrs. the only difference with babies is that they burp and fart loudly in polite company.

Like others have said, if winding your baby makes you feel happy then go ahead, but there's not really much evidence that it makes any difference to anything. It's worth checking out that you're not mis-interpreting an early hunger cue as wind.

Btw, crying can actually lead to burping because the baby can swallow air. so if you're trying to burp a crying baby, then when a burp finally does appear, it may be because of all the crying, and it may in fact be whatever you do next that settles them rather than the burp per se.

wind not sind, sorry

Try sitting the baby sideways on one knee with both legs over the same side. The baby may arch, so let him/her and then slowly bring up into the sitting position again.

Hold high up on the chest to support torso and head. When the baby relaxes into it rather than arching and fighting, the wind will come up if there is any. You can help to relax them into it by jigging your knee.

Keeping babies upright for long periods can help them deal with wind themselves. Wearing slings for example.

hth

I always found holding upright, against my chest, with a gentle upwards rub on the left side of DSs back always got a burp out.

The best thig that worked for my babies (who incidently used to get a greyish tinge on their upper lip ) was that i would sit them upright facing sidewards holding under there chin to keep them from having flopping necks then would move them around in a circle motion - out came a massive burp most times - patting used to induce more posseting. What works for one....

tiktok the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. That made my day!!!!
I do find that talking and cuddling my baby does great things but only winding and /time and relaxation gets the wind passed.

Babymassage is, btw. fab for young Babies....wind or not....it relaxes them beautyfully

(the anecdote/data thing is not mine - it's a well-known saying!)

I find sitting with my knees bent and resting the baby along my thighs then occaisionally lifting her towards me to kiss her on the head is very enjoyable for both of us- and often results in fabulous burps and farts for my babies! You can also have quite a nice chat with them at the same time. HTH

Don't know about the blue/grey lip thing. My babies have all been very fair and their skin changes colour quite a lot.

Thanks for all the advice. Pinky, I especially like your idea! cute!

Please help, we have a 10 day old baby who is now Ben bottle fed as he wa born 4 weeks early. We sometimes struggle to wind him. We have tried all different ways. Sometimes it works other times he cries and nothing works. Any ideas? Is it something we are doing wrong? The midwife sys it's normal but it's sad when we can't settle him at night time.

If it would be true, why that kind of knowledge doesn't exist on NHS website?