Help! My one year old has awful wind in the night - is it diet? what else?

[BrightonNim]

For months and months and months now we have had intermittent problems with our 1 year old, normally a fantastic sleeper, waking in the night with trapped wind - and lots of it. Once all gone he goes back to sleep - sometimes for rest of night, sometimes for 40 min to a couple of hours until more comes along. Last night I was up at midnight and again at 1am - on a work night!!

Am knackered and fed up. No help so far from HV or paediatrician - I think they think I am winging over nothing - but 9 months of it is getting a bit much now.

HAs anyone experienced anything similar. Are there any dieticians or naturopaths out there with any suggestions?

Would really apprecaite some ideas!

My 30 year old also has terrible wind in the night.

Sorry couldn't help it!

I'm sure someone less childish will be along to help soon x

That's a 30 year old DH not a DC!

Is your DC maybe drinking something last thing which isn't agreeing?

Check out the possibility of a hiatus hernia.

Onions garlic etc can cause gastic discomfort and associated wind...

Feeling guilty about my flippant comment when you are worn out. Sorry.

Have you thought if the episodes have any commonalities (sure you have). Maybe getting fed at grannies house or anything like that?

I too have a flatulant 30 something at home, but that's not what's keeping me awake...

Did think I had sorted out what was causing it, stuff like raw fruit, but last few days have absolutely no idea.

It's burps that are the problem byt eh way rather than the other end!

He sucks his thumb - could that cause him to take lots of air in when he is asleep?

Hi everyone - i just wanted to add to this post incase it helps anyone as i myself have trawled the internet looking for help over the past few months and i came here myself feeling desperate....we had months and months of upset with our twins waking in the night with trapped wind and we tried everything to try and ease it, every over the counter medicine, massaging, you name it - in the end i decided that i would take their bottles away and replace them with sippy cups with straws (noby sports cup) to see if this had any effect - i hadnt planned to take their bottles away from them so young (they are 14 months) but we tried it and it has been our saving grace. they now sleep for 12 hours a night undisturbed and have no trouble with wind whatsoever. this obviously may not work for everyone but i just wanted to let people know that defnitely could be a possibility. we had no idea they were taking down so much air just by drinking from the bottles - so i hope that this will help someone!