Windy down below at night

[yourlittleswampduck]

Hi, my baby girl is very windy down below (farty) at night - she screams and wakes herself up from about midnight and sometimes will not settle down again all night... She's fine during the day though. We changed from Aptamil to Omneo Comfort to help with all day long colic about 1 week ago. Has anyone else experienced this and has anyone found anything that will help please?

How old is she, and did she have the same problem when you were giving her the Aptimil?

Ds2 used to be like this. You could almost see his sleepsuit billowing out with each blast. I found that lying him on his back and moving his legs in a cycling motion seemed to get rid of the worst of it. It's one of those things they never mention in pregnancy books - that in a few months time you will be awake at 3am willing your baby to fart.

Hi, thanks for the replies. She is nearly 14 weeks and no, she was bad all day long on Aptamil but ok at night - sleeping through some nights. This waking up in pain with wind is since going on to Omneo Comfort. I'll certainly give the cycling motion a go - how soon did it pass for you?

We've had this almost from the off with ds2 now 16 weeks. gp useless - said to let it pass. We self diagnosed lactose intolerance and have used colief to great effect from 8 weeks - you can get it on prescription, costs £9.99 otherwise. If you try it give it 24 hours to kick in. We took him off the colief for a day last week to see if it had resolved itself, but he was back to his old windy screaming ways, so back on it and next day right as rain.

Thanks, we tried it a couple of times a while ago but we used it with gripe water too which I think was a daft thing to do... it sent her system into overdrive and she started to do frothy poo's!

My son is breastfed - he went through a stage like this. Like coppertop says, I also used to try lifting his legs up in the air, this helped him to fart. It would always be first thing in the morning for him and would totally interfere if he was trying to feed at the same time.

It passed though.

I had forgotten about this!!
Mine would do the loudest trumps. Like a full grown man!!!!
How funny!!!

how imature to laugh at trumps!!!!!

lol mumtosomeone - mine also does big whoppers. My mum couldn't get over it when she heard, she swears me and my brother never farted like that.

both mine had terrible traped wind as babies, i used to massage their bellies, working round - think of the direction the colon goes in the belly, sort of curling round and imagine you are massaging the length of it to finish up at the bottom end! i also tried putting them on their sides and drawing their legs up and rubbing their backs and sides. - the tummy rub seemed most effective in terms of bringing out the wind, but the curled up back rub seemed to bring them most comfort.

i think lying them across your knee and rubbing back works quite well too!!!

Thanks everyone, yes she does whopping great trumps too - the best were in the lift in Boots and in the doctor's waiting room... it's always with an audience hey? I shall try the things everyone recommends.

Mine loves to let rip in the lift too and people look at me accusingly when I blame him.

My poor dh usually wakes to the sound of me encouraging my ds to 'push em out' and making helpful straining noises while I'm cycling his legs on my lap in bed in the morning. We've been using infacol to no great effect. May try colief, although it does seem to be becoming less of a problem over time (now 14 weeks old).

I've had E on Colief now for about 2 weeks and have seen a real improvement - she seems a lot more settled. She's been waking the last few nights with trumps (at 4am without fail...) but think it may be as we have been on hols and it's been her first time sleeping in a room on her own. That's what I hope anyway!!!