9 month old suddenly struggling with trapped wind at night

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Ds who is almost 9 months is suddenly struggling with trapped wind at night. He’s waking up multiple times, squirming in pain. I can hear the wind in his tummy but it takes him hours to be able to pass it.

I rub his back and bicycle his legs etc but the only thing that seems to help is giving it time to pass through his system. Unfortunately it means a night of broken sleep for us both. Does anyone have any recommendations for something that might help him pass it more quickly or prevent it from happening in the first place?

He has dinner at 5pm and then usually a bottle at 7pm before bed. I’ve started giving him his bottle at 6.30 so he has time to move around and get rid of any gas but so far he’s still waking up with trapped wind. He's totally fine during the day.

We had exactly the same problem gave infacol a try, it worked really well for him and wind issues have cleared up

I’m having the same problem with my DS at the moment and he’s the same age. Did he grow out of it or did you manage to find a way to help him?

When my daughter was 1-3y gluten/wheat used to give her terrible trapped wind. We stopped giving cous cous and used brown rice pasta instead of pasta but everything else she had wheat and gluten in and this was enough of a reduction that she didn't get trapped wind.
She's under a dietician and she said that is quite common and she had a patient who was fine as long as they didn't have Weetabix.

It might be worth keeping a food diary in case there's a common food. For my daughter it was so much worse on the days she ate cous cous.

As @Superscientist said wind (we call it gas in the US) is produced by some foods and the digestive process. Some infants don't have the enzymes necessary or only produce a minimal amount of those enzymes, to digest some items. Keep food diary and do a quick exchange of a suspected item. This can resolve itself over time.