Gassiness be gone?

[Atticus500]

My 8 week old is incredibly gassy. She’s BF and otherwise healthy - the odd bit of colic, fairly regular spit up, fussiness in the evening - but otherwise healthy and gaining weight. But she had terrible gas at both ends. She has to be burped at every feed or else grunts and groans In discomfort, and in the morning requires her legs pumped to get the farts and poop out. She also grunts on the boob and pulls my nipple with her griping tummy pains. Firstly - is this normal? Makes me think I’m not making enough milk... and secondly, is this one of those things that magically disappears at 12 weeks please say yes

All of mine as babies had to be winded thoroughly after every feed. I thought that was the done thing. What you're describing does sound normal to me, babies are very windy and struggle to get it up on their own since they're immobile. I was shocked every time at how tremendous their pumps can be for such tiny beings
Mine grunted at feeds too, so I'd take them off to wind in between suckling which helped. I also found wearing them with a sling lessened their wind a lot, being pressed up against me and my walking/bouncing movement moved their gas along. They do stop requiring winding as much once they can shuffle about by themselves a bit, so yes it goes away, maybe not by 12 weeks but not much longer after.

Think my son was 4 months when he stopped needing us to wind him so much, just sat him up for a bit after a feed and he burped himself.

I used to enjoy a good burping session - very satisfying! Mine was FF but half way through and at the end of every bottle until around 6 months or so when the burps just came. We used to do bicycle legs a lot to help with bum burps and then once we started weaning one of us had to go up every night at about 9pm to help release the farts! They do not tell you this stuff at antenatal classes.

Following as my 8 week old is exactly the same!

Gripe water is gods gift to new mums!! Can be added into bottle or given in a medicine dummy (its runnier than calpol etc).

Our baby loves it and if you give after feeds you can literally hear it working - so weird!!

It sounds like an awful concoction but actually just tastes sweet so they love it.

Honestly try it - you can use it from one month and all natural!!

Following! My 7 week old is exactly the same. Formula fed, very gassy, fussy especially in evenings and spits up milk often. Tried gripe water and it did nothing.

Same here! 6 week old very gassy and causing real issues during feeding as he gets quite distressed.

I wonder when he’s unhappy if it’s better to try and burp him or help him fart? Which is best?! Also now he’s started spitting up / being sick milk after every feed. Assume he’s either consuming too much or too fast. But can’t seem to stop him doing either... advice appreciated