Baby groaning with wind at night

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Can anyone help with advice please? DS is 10 weeks and for the past 5 weeks has been groaning and writhing in his sleep from 4am onwards with wind - it sounds awful but he is still asleep. He does cry out but if I turn light on he's asleep so i put hand on him and he calms back down and stays asleep. I know it's wind because he'll fart and then quieten down, either by himself or if I lift his legs up to help release the wind. I have taken to picking him out and holding him from about 5am onwards because he doesn't groan when he lies on side on me and goes into deep sleep.

I do all the recommended things every day - bicycle legs, rotate legs, push legs up to chest, winding lots after feeds, tummy time, massage and I give him gripe water each day to help him to pass it.

I'm really started to worry though because it's getting earlier and the last few nights it has started at 11pm and carried on all night and I really don't think he can be sleeping properly if he's constantly groaning and writhing. He wakes to feed at around 1am and 4am. I feed him, wind him and put him back down and he sleeps soundly for about half an hour before groaning starts again.

I've tried gp who gave me the usual 'it's just colic give him infacol' advice. It's definitely not reflux as the wind comes out each time I help him and it only happens when he's been lying on his back a long time at night.

I've read up about it and from what I can see it is very common and due to an immature gut and he'll grow out of it. But when? And is there anything I can do in the meantime? Do any of you have experience with this? I'm very tired myself and worried that my son isn't getting proper sleep.

My DS was the same. Literally could have written your post. I can't remember when it went away but it did. I remember the only thing that worked was laying him on his tummy. Not recommended I know but it did help. He was BF on demand too and co slept so he ended up falling asleep feeding on his side most of the time anyway.

I cant recommend a tummy tub enough, a nice warm soak in it before bed, watch the bubbles rise.
They are not the cheapest things in the world, but you may be able to get one second hand.

Afraid mine was the same but mine screamed the place down rather than groan. He grew out of it when stopped breast feeding and his digestive organs matured. I recommend keeping him upright as long as possible after his feed but ime it's a time thing.

I also found when weaning giving plain foods such as chicken, rice ( no onions) and gentle veg like carrots at bedtime really helped stop wind

It was a great suggestion to do tummy massage every nappy change - I started it with DS2 (except night changes - don't want to stimulate him too much), it seems to help and he likes it. I also use routine given at baby massage class - likely to be the same.

Here you go! These pics and descriptions are only meant to jog your memory, so either gone video on you tube to find out how to do the "moves" or a health visitor showed me how at baby clinic.

They do grow out of it eventually, it's so hard when you're in it though!