I have a 4 week old baby, generally he's a very sweet happy baby until it gets to about 5pm at night, then he tends to have a huge windy meltdown. He's formula fed (aptamil) and takes 5oz feeds every 3ish hours.
In the evenings he really suffers with wind. He'll take a bit of milk and then cry and spit it out, then he'll act desperately hungry and then do the same thing again. It takes so long to get him to take the whole bottle. We feed him sat up, with a slow flow teat and mam and dr brown anti colic bottles. We use infacol before each feed and have recently started putting gripe water in his bottles too (3ml per feed). The first feed with gripe water and he did a huge burp and was really settled but since then its gone down hill again. Its a real struggle to actually get a burp out of him - we've tried literally every position. He does do a lot of farting however but this is usually after a lot of squirming and crying and back arching, he moves so much its actually quite hard to keep hold of him and its rather distressing.
I don't think its 'colic' because he doesn't actually cry that much - its more fussing and thrashing about. It makes me so sad so see him in pain though. Does anyone have any ideas or any tips that we could try?