First post, desperate for any help.
Ds is nearly 3 weeks old and for the last week or so he has had agonising wind. He wakes up screaming, will go to drop off to sleep and wake up with it, will fuss a lot during feeds. Every scream is followed by a fart or a poop. He is combi fed as my wife has low supply, and is on hipp combiotic. He settles but then is woken up by this pain, and we don't know what to do. We can't sleep because he can't sleep, we have him on us to settle him more quickly after a painful episode but we cant sleep with him on us obviously.
It doesn't fit my understanding of colic per se, because he doesn't cry constantly and only seems related to his bowel movements. We took him to cranial osteopath this morning and he's moving his bowels more often but still in pain from farts. We try massage and lifting legs etc but often he is too tense or it hurts him more. We tried infacol but he got constipated and midwife told us is a placebo more than anything.
Please, can anyone help? I'm back to work soon and don't know what to do if he's still unable to get even a couple of hours sleep.