Do you wind after breast feeding??

[mama2moo]

Dc2 is due in a few weeks and I want to breast feed. I bottle fed dd and she had a terrible wind and colic.

Do you need to wind a breast fed baby as much as bottle fed?

Is it best just to wait and see what the baby is like after feeding?

Also, is colic less common with breast fed babies?

Thanks

i do but not at night as i fall asleep while feeding
might just be worth seeing
i feed to sleep - dd went through a windy phase a while ago so i sat up to feed until she was almost asleep, then winded her, then another tiny feed to get her back to sleep

I do, as DS is a really windy baby (you can hear his burps in the next room )

Yep fraid so. I don't know if you need to burp as much as a bottle-fed baby but would definitely burp. My LO is 4 months and exclusively breastfed and has massive burps. Good luck with the baby.

Ditto here - my bf ds had terrible wind as a newborn and still does some magnificent burps now.

I read somewhere that Bf babies have smaller air bubbles due to gulping etc so need burping but I find rubbing dd's back who is 7 weeks is enough and she burps quickly... Had two weeks of collic with her and used infacol for that...

I had to burp DD. I had oversupply and fast let down so sometimes she got a bit overwhelmed. Feeds were fast in our house!
I used infacol for a few weeks to help with the wind but she didn't have colic.

i never bothered with either of mine, they latched well and didn't/don't swallow air.

my mil insisted this was torment to them, despite the lovely way they just drifted off to sleep at the boob....(and stayed asleep.)

and bf babies are less colicky on average, though that's no comfort to someone with a difficult to soothe BF baby....

Whoops i knew I'd fogetten something

That would be a no.

DD1 I had to though otherwise she suffered terribly.

I bf DD and she had terrible wind and reflux.

And although I had been told that bottle-fed babies suffer more from wind, I found it MUCH easier winding DS, who was half bottle and half bf, as the burps were much bigger and easier to release IYSWIM!

Yes, breastfed babies are less likely to suffer from colic - unfortunately quite a lot of them still do get it though. I did used to wind DS when he was little if he was awake after a feed, if he fell asleep I didn't and it was fine. He went through a short colicky phase at about 3 months but it wasn't that bad and was easy to treat, we just used gripe water.

I think you have to wait and see what the baby is like. Undercova I think that your experience was probably just a different baby rather than a different feeding method

Thanks all

I will be ready and waiting to wind dc2 when I meet her soon. Fingers crossed that breast feeding works out for us.