Hi,
My daughter is 7 weeks old and has developed a pattern of becoming really unsettled in later afternoon/evening. She will cry lots (though standing up and walking around with her often settles for a short time but not always) , sometimes lets out high pitched cry/scream, arches her back, kicks her legs, brings legs up to tummy and kicks out and either balls her fists or hits out with her hands. Although she is often showing clear signs that she is hungry (turning head, mouthing at my arm, sometimes hand in mouth), when I try to breast feed her she will almost always become even more distressed and pull/turn her head away almost immediately (if I even get ti that point without her screaming when I go to feed her). She has some formula feeds also but sometimes if I go to give her a bottle she will drink hungrily for a minute or so then become really messy with lots of milk coming out of her mouth then become upset again and pull away.
This is usually only the case in late afternoon/evening, however there have been a couple if occasions when this has happened during the night, where she us waking every hour-two hours but will sleep un my arms. When out down in cot will kick legs/bring up to chest and get really upset. Other nights she will sleep up to 5 hours in one go!
Initially the midwife and health visitor thought it was trapped wind, which made sense as she is often bringing up her legs and seems to by straining for a poo/get out wind often (windy baby, which smell pretty strong! Usually has a poo every 36 hours or so). We tried infacol and colief but didn't work. Leg stretches and tummy rubs sometimes help, we also try to feed her in a more upright position when having bottle and winding for longer (though she seems to bring up one big burp and that's it). Was going to try comfort milk next but after speaking the health visitor she now thinks it maybe silent reflux.
After thinking about this more, I was just wondering, if it were reflux would my daughter have it some of the time and not other? It's only really that set time of day and around half of nights that she has these symptoms and will often go to sleep immediately after a feed other times without any discomfort. The symptoms dont really appear straight after a feed either, she will sometimes sleep for hours before waking in discomfort.
I'm just not sure what to do about trying comfort milk now as health visitor advised to ask gp for gaviscon on monday. Don't want to start both as won't know which is having impact, but awful to see her in such discomfort.
Any advice/experiences gratefully received 