screaming baby due to wind - how to make it stop?

[Beantin]

DS 10 days' old - recommended infacol by MW, doesn't seem to help. This time of night we seem to go through a couple of hours of 'put down, pick up, burp, put down, pick up, burp' which is tiring me and DH out. Have checked and checked again that latched on correctly, etc. Believe so....and nappies confirm he is feeding something at least. Just seems in constant pain with wind...all suggestions welcome

Don't wait until after feeds to give it. I started at the tea time feeds (5ish) and gave before every feed until 11ish. This helped us.
You can also try tummy massage, just gently rub to release trapped wind lower down.
The other thing we did with both dds was swaddle so they feel secure, only discovered it at 6wks with dd1 but was a godsend!
You can also try sitting baby up in a chair rather than lying flat until they are settled.

Oh and a better way to wind is to lie the baby face down and slightly head down on your lap and rub the back/pat quite firmly, you might be being too gentle iyswim.

You need to use infacol for about a week as its effects are progressive.

Similar to dilly, I found lying the baby on the floor face down and rubbing their backs helped more than the over the shoulder method.

My sympathies are with you - my 3 all "windy babies"!

A Carribean woman told me that in the Carribean they put a half teaspoon of brown sugar in about half a cup of warm water and let the baby drink it slowly.

In absolute desperation we tried it one day and it worked every time!

Don't know why - but the wind comes up in on massive rush when you sit them up after drinking thsi sugary mix. They do not need to drink it all.

Infacol, laying on stomach etc never worked for us.

i night nannied for a really colicy baby a few months ago - poor mum was at the end of her tether - baby was 2 weeks old and she hadnt had a night of sleep since birth - poor baby was screaming every hour or so

i did some research on the internet and got some colief infant drops see here

you either need to put in formula 30mins before feed

or if BF as you are (and so was my mum) to

1)express a few tablespoons of breast milk into a small sterilised container

2)add 4 drops of colief

3)give to baby using a sterlised plastic spoon

4)and then feed as normal

we tried infacol and didnt work but colief was a godsend

hth

I bfd. ds had really bad colic (bad night would start at 7pm, until 4am or 5am - constant screaming, inconsolable) - colief (administered as Blondes suggested) helped, but didn't solve - the thing that got rid of it - and got rid of it immediately - was cranial osteopathy - the first two sessions improved things, whilst the 3rd session completely solved it.

Good luck!

Totally sympathise...dd had wrotten colic,
I loved infacol, but it took time to kick in. Good old gripe water also fab.
Found best way to wind (from lower half) and relieve pain was to hold baby belly down, face resting on elbow end of forearm, belly in hand, legs dangling. Your hand and the babies weight puts gentle pressure on abdomen and seems to help relieve pain and release gasses. DD alwyas fell asleep this way, and farted brilliantly! Also leaves other hand free to pat and stroke back.
Good luck!

screaming between 2 weeks and 8 weeks is v common. There is no clinical evidence that it is due to 'wind'.

I would read Harvey Karp's 'Quietest baby on the Block. Basically gives a 5 point method for screaming babies, based on swaddling:

1. Swaddle - make sure arms are locked down
2. Ssh - white noise, louder than your baby's cry, that is supposed to imitate the sshing of the placenta in utero.
3. Stomach/Side - over your shoulder on his stomach or on his side held in close to you.
4. Swing - jiggle your baby really fast (support the head well) - again, supposed to imitate the constnat gentle jiggling the baby gets in utero.
5. Suck - when your baby is calm enough, breast feed or givce a soother.

If you have a screamer, having them attached to you for reassurance can help. DS1 was permanently in his Baby Bjorn!

it's utterly horrible, but your baby will calm the more he's with you. Don't listen to people who try to tell you that you're spoiling your baby.

Another vote for swaddling.

This transformed my 'windy' baby.

Do it!!

I used to swaddle him beofre I fed him, let him dose off on the breast then put him down, swaddled. Worked like a dream and the windiness disappeared overnight. He still possets quite a lot but it doesn't bother him. ( only me and my washing machine )

my baby is very windy, seems to get trapped further down, so we manually help it come out, I find it's the pretty quick pain relief for her and also found infacol didn't work at all. If you want to try it basically: lie baby on back, hold both babies legs and slowly work them in a circular motion at the same time around her body. Tie in some swinging legs togther left and right, and also holding legs as far up thigh around groin as possible, and slowly bend up to stomach, wiggle into stomach and out again. It usually results in lots of very loud farts for my dd (9 weeks, but very, very windy from birth). For what it's worth, I am also quite windy (blush), so i'm sure it is something in my diet, but I've tried making changes and nothing much seems to help!

How are things beantin? Anything helping?

Oh bad luck, DD was awful with colic, I'd sit here waiting for 7pm to come because as soon as that big hand hit the top of the clock she would start screaming, and would be inconsolable until 10pm. If you're using Infacol I suggest administering before every single feed, it won't work otherwise and it takes a while to build up. I tried all the winding techniques, couldn't get anything out at all. She did grow out of it though, she's 5.5 months now and hasn't had any colic for a long time.

stopped infacol as he didn't seem to poo with it. Propped his cot one end, using a dummy lots, cuddling him plenty when upset, wrapped up in a swaddle or grobag and swaddle combo, have stopped eating bananas and investigating cranial osteopathy......something is working, but we're not sure what. He's still having the odd bout of it but not so bad at all. Having an explosive nappy after a few days may be the key!

Glad things have improved for you and long may it continue

geta wrap sling and walk! This really helped and helped me feel fit (all gone since colic stopped though)