breast feeding and grumbly tummy

[hazhawken]

hello i have a 3 week old and she seems to have more problems feeding in the evening - today, she latched on okay but after a couple of minutes i hear her tummy grumble and then she squirms and makes a noise and comes off the breast and starts crying - she looks like she's in pain - is this colic or just wind ? what tips do you have ?
i think i'm going to try cutting out wind causing food (someone also suggested cutting out dairy too) to see if it makes a difference.
the health visitor recommended infacol (sp ?) - has anyone found that this works or can you recommend anything else i can give her to help ?
any help v gratefully received
hx

Hi Hazhawken,

I had similar problem with my DD, now 4 months old, and something that my midwife told me when she came to visit us at home after hospital was that such a thing as colic she has only seen once in her professinal life. However it is used a lot nowdays.

She explained me that when babys are this small their digestive system isn't mature enough and it takes a while before it happens. That's way sometimes they have this problem.

I did used infacol with my DD and in our case it really worked. I ask my friend if she had used it and she aid that it really worked for her DS also. I only had to use it for two weeks before her digestive system matured enough for her to be able to burp and fart which she couldn't do at all at first and was creating all the problem of noises in her stomach and pains in her stomach.

I also realise that there were some foods that didn't help either. I had to stop eating for a while chick peas, brocolli, cauliflower, beans (but not lentils) and any product made with soya (I'am vegetarian and used to eat sausages and soya mince as well as tofu). In the last weeks I have started introducing these foods again individually to see if she was tolerating better and the result is that I can eat them now in small quantities which is good.

You may need to see what you eat in your diet to realise what she can not tolerate but it is worth it a try. Other friends of mine couldn't eat tomatoes, mushroons, garlic. Every baby is different so you may be able to eat things that other people can't.

This is my experience with similar problem. Hope you get a solutions soon. Just be patience, it will pass soon. Good luck

hello,
mareta, thank you for the advice - i think i need to cut some things out of my diet. i'm veggie too, so do eat quite a bit of tofu, beans etc. i might go out and get some infacol too. my dd does burp and fart quite a lot already and still has the grumbly tummy - i guess that's even more wind that needs to come out.. by what age do they generally settle down with the wind ?
harriet

Hi Hazhawken,

My DD started when she was a few days old with these problems and I started using the Infaol when she was 2 weeks old. Everything stopped when she ws 5 or 6 weeks old but it will depend how quick your DD's digestive system matures. Each child is differently and they develop in different ways.

Have in mind that before she was born she didn't have to use her digestive system which means everything is new. It is like a new car, it needs a few milages before everything works as it should (maybe it is a weird example).

Just start by checking what you eat and how she reacts. If it seems to make her to have more wind just remove it from your diet until you DD has overcome this problem and then introduce it slowly into your diet again. It did work with me but we had a few hard weeks at first. I can tell you that Infacol did work prety quick on her. However there are other cases where infacol has not work. I did research it on the internet to see which options I had. There are other products on the market that work similar that infacol, can't remember their names, just check and try and stick with what works for you.

Good luck and hopefully she will be fine soon.

lovely, thank you very much. i like th enew car example
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