Help! 18 week old with sudden bad wind and won't be put down at night ...

[KiwiPanda]

DD has for the last 2 weeks or so been suffering from terrible wind at night. She's exclusively BF. Up until then I used to be able to feed her (at night) and put her straight down and she'd go to sleep, no wind problems at all. But now if I try within seconds she starts - not really crying but that sort of whiny (which sounds mean, sorry, but that's what it sounds like!) noise that indicates wind for her. She arches her back too and is clearly struggling to get that wind out ... Last night we must have got her to sleep, put her down, and she started complaining again about 15 times. Am absolutely knackered.

She seems - on the whole - generally fine during the day but definitely far windier than she used to be. She's also much grumpier than she used to be when she has wind during the day.

What can I do??? I've tried gripe water but it doesn't seem to help much. Isn't wind usually getting better by this stage not worse??

what happens if you offer to feed her again?
only ask because maybe she's going through a growth spurt and just wants more food?

thisisyesterday - this usually happens straight after a feed so I don't think so, it's a different kind of cry from her hungry cry and she's arching her back and writhing in a way that I think must be wind? Sometimes she seems fine, we put her down then an hour later she starts complaining. So I have tried feeding her again then but she's not keen and keeps griping afterwards.

can't help, but we've got a similr problem with dd (21 weeks), as soon as she stops feeding and is lifted up to be winded she cries, and for the last few weeks has been waking up 4 hours after going to sleep with exactly the same back arching you describe. so will watch to see what advice people come up with!

jumpjockey has your DD started feeding less frequently at night? I've just been chatting with a friend and released that this started when DD began to stretch out her night feeds - so perhaps related to getting more (I have fast letdown) at the next feed after a 5 hour break.. that's always the worst one for wind so it could well be.

My DS (now 14 weeks) was windy right from the start - arching back ang whiney! Doc diagnosed gastric reflux and prescribed Gavison Infant - worked like a dream!! We only gave it to him occasionally but seems to have sorted him out.

Bumping my thread because after one good night we had another awful one last night - DD clearly in considerable discomfort crying most of the night. Like having a newborn again

I don't understand why she should suddenly be so windy and struggling so much with it at 4 months? Is it something I'm eating?? (Except I haven't changed my diet) Will it pass??

Please! Help!

Bump, because my 16 wk old is suddenly squealing with wind pain through the night.

Is it worth trying the gaviscon?