baby with severe wind - please help

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My 12 week old DD is really suffering with terrible wind, making feeding (and frankly pretty much everything else) really difficult. for the last two days she has been crying pretty much all the time she's awake. all her routines have gone out of the window and we are just trying to get by with her feeding/sleeping times all over the place. she is showing a lot of classic wind symptoms - back arching, drawing her legs up to her stomach, random bouts of screaming, etc etc etc. i'm not worried as such, by which i mean, i'm not scared - she's not got a fever and is managing to get enough milk down that she's not dehydrated. but it's a misery - i hate seeing her in pain; and it's hard to cope with the absolutely constant crying. Infacol seems useless. does anyone have any tips? our nanny says some mums mentioned osteopathy as being helpful, but i'm a bit sceptical?
TIA

Hi

Osteopathy did help my DD. Apparently she had a very tight diaphragm which meant the wind got trapped behind it and went down rather than being able to come up.

tbh prior to this I had always been a bit sceptical about complementary medicine but she was definitely always more comfortable after seeing the osteopath. (was not a cranial one btw though)

Also used this natural remedy on occasion. Worked a treat but it did turn the poos black which I found quite freaky! Think it works by attracting the air to one of the ingredients allowing it to be passes out when they poo.

Also I found cutting down on wheat in my diet helped her (I bf). Later we discovered she is wheat intolerant, even now during weaning it will give her horrid wind.

gripe water better than infacol....(and if you stick with infacol you have to remember to use it every feed, it builds up and works better over time)... Colief is suppose to be good too?
Plus all the usual wind positions....keep trying them until you find one that helps....
So....(not all at the same time...obviously )
Over your shoulder so her tummy rests on your shoulder....
Face down, tummy down over your lap, rubbing her back...
Lying on her back on the floor and bend her legs up, or cycle them....(found this one a good one with both mine)
um... tiger in the tree position......
Also sometimes just holding her upright and moving her around like the hands of a clock at arms length seems to work

It does all pass... time seems to be the greatest cure. (doesn't help AT the time though does it....)

I'm sure Kellymom will have some stuff hang on will look...some stuff here

sorry, reading that back it seems describing the positions is pretty hard....

thanks very much for the suggestions. interesting about the tight diaphragm - she always seems to pass wind at the bottom end rather than the top so perhaps she has this too..

No help just sympathy, my 10 week old is exactly the same and has started doing it from 2-4am, I'm exhausted. Am upping the gripe water to every feed and tipping her basket more tonight, we'll see.

Will be watching for more advice.

Ps fumblina did you order that colic calm stuff over the internet or find it in a shop somewhere?

sotough I got it on tinterweb. Pricey but I was absolutely desperate for some sleep by then. Will have a proper hunt around tomorrow and see if I have any left, if I do I'd be happy to post to you if you like?

Are you doing colic massage/leg cycling etc every nappy change as well? DD hated this to begin with but I used to start by massaging her legs and feet (which she loved - strange child) before moving on to her tummy

Oops, didn't read mummyelks post before I posted.

The sitting up and moving in a circle thing helped sometimes too.

OK, colic expert here lol!

Gripe water is best for colicy babies. Infacol is ok for wind (used this on ds who had occasional trapped wind), but IME does not work on colic. With gripe water you need to give the max dose (obv read the bottle). Use after every feed whether baby has pain then or not, this helps stop the build up. The woodwards one my dd couldn't tolerate but the boots own one she lapped up.

Lots of tummy time in the day, helps stretch babies muscles and is great at getting trapped wind up. Even if only for a few mins at a time it will help.

Colief is a miracle cure for some, it didn't work for me, but know others who it has worked for. Same with osteopathy, didn't help my dd, but know others it did.

Lots of diff winding positions, removing bottle and winding midway through really miffed my two off so didn't do that, but you could give a go. Try different bottles and teats as this can help but gets expensive.

Try a sling, some babies find this soothing and being upright a lot can help the wind situation. If you can borrow a swing too, they find that soothing.

I tried everything and tbh there is no miracle cure and its all trial and error but they DO grow out of it. After 12 weeks please see your gp as it could be reflux...my dd had colic until 4.5 months, and after 3 months they put her on gaviscon to see if that would help but it didn't. I feel for you ladies and your lovely babies, it so awful to see them in so much pain and not be able to help them.

Good luck x

Would recommend osteopathy, really helped my DS, 3 sessions and he was like a different baby

Its so weird isn't it, my dd had about 5 sessions (I was desperate) and it made not one bit of difference....

Are you FF?

If so, two things worked for us- I'm not sure which one was most effective, but it was perhaps a combination of the two.

1. Dr.Brown's bottles- they are miraculous and stop the baby taking in too much air with a feed.

1. Easy digest formula. We used aptamil, but C&G comfort is the same thing.

DD is two now and it seems like a lifetime away, but reading your post brought it all back. Good luck!

If breastfed, please phone a counsellor. This might be an easily fixable problem.