Chronic wind

[Ginnytonic82]

Any advice is welcome as we are getting desperate. Sorry for length.

Our beautiful little boy is approaching 6 weeks and is in constant pain from wind. He burps very well and after each ounce of food (he is mix fed). He farts constantly, but they seem to be his major problem as he is constantly screwing himself up and straining like mad. He then cries and screams. We have been to the dr who told us it is colic and prescribed colief, despite him already being on comfort formular.

Over the past few weeks we have tried infacol, dentinox, gripe water, comfort formular, colief, colic massage (as taught by health visitor), warm pads on stomach (advised by gp), all the burping positions we can research, raising the head of his Moses basket, holding him upright during and after feeds, bicycling his legs, warm bath, warm bottles. We were using tommy tippee but replaced them all with Dr Browns. We burp him for a minimum of 20 mins after feeding even though we burp him during too. I wear him in a sling but he hates it most of the time.

All this and my poor boy is still squirming, arching his back and crying out in pain. I'm at the stage where I don't know what to do. When I see my GP he assures me he is fine and to give it time, but we can't bear to see him suffering, it breaks our hearts. My health visitor is very supportive and is helping me with my pnd and also trying to help with ds but she really can't suggest anything else. He is only calm when he feeds and even then he cries and strains sometimes. He doesn't sleep much due to the pain.

Can anyone please, please suggest any other method to help my son? People keep saying he'll be better at 6 weeks, but he seems worse and now people are saying he'll be better at 8, 10, 12 weeks and so on. We feel like failures, please help.

My ds was exactly like this and once ended up in a&e, finally was diagnosed as cows milk protein intolerant (totally different to lactose intolerant).If bf try dairy free diet or bottle feeding ask gp for prescription milk called neocate. My ds is a different boy on it and I can finally sleep.

Once he cried from 9am to 2am the next day, when he finally stopped crying he slept the next 24hrs solid and couldn't wake him to feed him so he dropped centiles but sice getting the prescription milk he is now thriving.

Take care, you're doing great.xx

If you are bfing, please don't go dairy free without getting Lo checked by your GP first, it's not recommended. You could cut out dairy and your baby could become more settled but it might just be a coincidence and then you are left with a very restricted diet for no reason.

Have a read of this. It includes information on what to look for and what to expect from your HCP

Thanks everyone, I can't tell you how helpful this thread is. Ds had a pretty bad day yesterday but a very good night - I suspect he wore himself out the poor lamb.

Don't think the gaviscon makes any difference and I'm very reluctant to keep giving him medicines, even of the dr told me they can't do him any harm. How's everyone else getting on? I hope things are improving all round.