winding - when does it stop??

[Henda]

Hello everyone. Stupid me again. Ds now eleven weeks, and over the last week he seems to have stopped bringing up wind after feeds (bottle). Is this normal? When do they stop needing to be winded? because no amount of back-patting and rubbing makes any difference. He doesn't seem uncomfortable, so i imagine there's no trapped wind. Strange....

If he isn't crying, I would say the wind isn't bothering him, and he will pass it from the other exit eventually.

Mine was never bothered by wind either, don't think I stopped winding until 6 months old though, just out of habit really!

by the way, you're not stupid at all!

ah... thank you

henda is he taking his feeds slower than before? as that might ease the wind, at 6 mths they can do it quite quickly themselves even lying down.

hiya, sorry for the delay. He seems to be concentrating more when he's feeding, not just guzzling. I suppose he's not taking in so much wind, as he's more adept at it now

how does everyone wind their babies as everyon i know seems to do it differently. what is most effective?

We make such a massive thing about winding in the UK - we probably don't need to bother anything like as much as we do!

Henda, prob no need to do anything. Your baby is not worried.

I never winded either of mine once.Always felt it was a ridiculous waste of time.

I think winding is a bottle related thing whereby the baby swallows air as they feed. I have bf 4 and have never done anything more than just hold them up to my shoulder after a feed where they might burp or they might not (especially if your let down is fast) but I hate it when well meaning aquaintances batter your baby on the back in search of some action! If he's not crying, he's probably fine!

If he's not uncomfortable then he doesn't need winding. He'll soon let you know if that changes. I do think it's always a good idea to spend some time upright after a feed (I never fed mine to sleep, but always woke them to feed IYSWIM).

Ds OTOH still needed active winding at 12m!

Ds always seemed to wind himself. I would hear these enormous burps while he was asleep - I stopped winding at nigth at about 2 months old as I was just too knackered and ds didn't seem bothered

During the day I think I stopped when he was about 4 months old or so. I was never very good about it though but did it because everyone else was always saying how wind bothered their babies so I thought maybe it would bother ds too though I never saw any evidence of it..