Hi all, Please help. My DS is 4 weeks old and for the past week has grunted what seems none stop.
Id liken it to contractions, you can see it starting he scrunches up his body and his throat sounds so sore. It then stops after a few seconds. A couple of minutes later it happens again. He looks in so much pain with it, often going red in the face.
At times (if the grunts aren’t too close together) he can sleep through it. Often when they are close together he wakes himself up crying.
I haven’t been able to establish a pattern of when it happens as it seems to be all day long with the occasional break which is usually when he’s awake, although he does do this when awake in my arms too!
GP originally said colic and prescribed infacol but that doesn’t work and he doesn’t have excessive periods of crying at all.
Then they thought silent reflux and prescribed Losec Mups (Omeprazole) supposed to be very strong but that didn’t make any different. Baby Gaviscon also prescribed but that didn’t work and made him incredibly constipated.
He poos regularly. he’s BF so pretty much every feed.
We’re both not getting any sleep as he can’t sleep for more that 2 hours a night at best and he wakes himself up doing it through the day so I struggle to sleep for more than 20 minutes in the day!
I really need some help or if anyone has experienced this. Is it something he will grow out of soon?
Also have tried gripe water, baby massage, keeping upright after feed, raising head in cot etc.
Thanks!