breastfeeding and wind

[JennyPenny22]

DD2 is 2 weeks old and suffering from terrible trapped wind pain. She is breastfed 100% (although sometimes has EBM through a bottle, but has never had formula).

At night for example, she sleeps fine from when we go to bed (midnight ish) till 6 am, but then is impossible to settle and just screams non stop!

She is having infacol before most feeds but it says no more than 6 times a day. It is better than nothing but certainly isn't solving the problem. We have used dentinox a couple of times before we had bought infacol and it did work a bit as a quick fix when she was bad, but it is hard to get her to swallow it as it tastes so awful! can she take them both?

Is theere anything she can have AS WELL as the infacol?

Hi,

Sorry you are having so much bother.Have been there, but it gets better.

Dentinox and infacol contain the same ingredient so you shouldn't use both. You need to give either of them about a week or more of solid use before you can tell if they are helping as they have a build up of effect.

Other alternatives are gripe water or homeopathic granules (colocynth 30c), the downside with the homeopathic granules is that they recommend a 15 min wait before feeding, which can mean your little one screaming the place down wanting fed and swallowing more air into the process. I didn't have the patience for them but a lot of people do find them useful.

good luck

Jenny - My DD was very similar and we now use infacol before every feed. I'm looking at the leaflet that comes with it and I can't see anything about limiting it to 6 times a day. It just says to use one dropper (0.5ml) at ecah feed and if no improvement after 3 or 4 days to increase dose to two droppers (1ml) at each feed. Could you try to increase your dose to 1ml if not doing that already?
I think for us it took a good week of solid use to really see an improvement.