Trapped wind help!

[littlestig]

My DD is now 13 weeks old and suffers from bad trapped wind. She is BF and whilst she does wind after a feed she tends to wake up several hours afterwards trying to get it out the other end with not a lot of luck. This happens particularly at night and I have to rub her tummy and pull her knees up to help her get it out. I've tried infacol with not a lot of joy, is there anyone who has had the same problem and has found something that works? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

hi,

We had exactly the same thing with our little one. Infacol did no good. We tried gripe water which was much better. MY DS was breast fed aswell and to be honest the doctor just said that thier little pipes are so small that it will go when they grow a bit. Hes nearly six months now and hasnt suffered for a while. It just faded away as he got a bit bigger.

Thanks for the reply, glad to here that your DS is now better. Nice to know that DD will hopefully grow out of this. i'll give the gripe water a go and see how we get on!

my DD (10 weeks) is prone to trapped wind. a friend who is a naturoapath (sp?) suggested chamomile tea to help. It has worked a treat. she is much less windy and her appetite has improved.

DD is FF. I make the days feeds up with a weak chamomile infusion (1 tea bag per 500ml of boiled water). As you are BF perhaps you could just offer her a couple of ounce bottle of weak tea after a feed?

we used gripe water as well before we tried the tea. It worked great when DD was feeding and had a burp stuck that wouldn't come up but i didn't find it worked that well for deep wind if you know what i mean.

worth a shot though.

Thanks for the suggestion TheSugarPlumFairy I to am finding that the gripe water is only helping the burping side of things and DD doesn't really have a problem with that end! I'll try some weak tea and see how we go, i'm open to anything as another bad night last night

Thanks to everyone who has replied, thankfully DD wind seems to be much better