Burping/winding

[Reah90]

Hi just looking for some advise. My daughter is 11 days old and I am finding it had to get a burp from her when winding after and during a feed, she passes wind out her bum a lot does this count as winding? My mother in law advises to try some infacol before a feed and see if it helps with her wind, has anyone tried this? I feel when she is trying/doing to poop she cry's and tenses up as though it is painful
Thanks in advance

Is she crying a lot? If not she's fine.
You don't infracol unless she is really uncomfortable.

No idea but I had an interesting experience with my second. They were on a newborn intensive care ward after surgery as were the majority of babies with the odd one there due to metabolic syndromes or what not, so different to a nicu for premmies.
They maintained burping a baby was primarily a western concept and the majority of babies worldwide are not burped with no ill effect due to wind. So babies there were not burped. Sure enough, it was not like there were a bunch of windy babies on the ward- big open wards with 10 to an area, no signs of distress in that regard at all. So makes you wonder whether we are just culturally trained to equate a baby in discomfort with wind?

Is your baby BF or ff? I BF my 2 Dc and rarely got a burp out of them. If they seemed uncomfortable I would keep trying but otherwise not bother and they were fine. I think new babies will tend to strain a little when pooping as its all new to them and they're learning how to use those muscles.

You could have a look on you tube at different burping techniques, really helpful.

I used infacol with dd for this first 4 months. She wouldn't burp and would cry after a feed. I say try it as it's not going to do any harm. You jest give them a drop before every feed and it takes a couple of days to work.

If you google infacol you'll find there's no evidence it works at all. We used good old fashioned gripe water on our windy baby. She is breast fed with 2 top up ffs a day and only ever got windy after a bottle. We found it worked well for a few weeks then actually made her worse. We've used nothing now (since she was about 4 1/2 months old) and she no longer suffers.

DS is 5 days old, paediatrician showed me what he recommended...

Lie flat for 20/30 secs, then gently sit them up leaning them forward if poss.

The change in position is all you need, I generally repeat this a few times whilst rubbing his back - works a treat

5 weeks old!!! You can tell I'm sleep deprived

My midwives told me that if BFing then you don't need to burp (or you can try but don't worry if nothing comes) as they are less likely to take in air from a breast than a bottle, which is what gives them wind.

Sorry I should have said, my daughter is formula fed. She doesn't full on cry when trying to pass wind but goes really tense and wriggles and makes a moaning noise as if it is painful and hard to pass wind through her bum.

Ds still does this now, he's 4 months. Not every time though. Cycling his legs and bringing his knees up to his tummy helps, he also finds it hilarious so win win.