Hello,
I recently welcomed baby no 2 in August who is now 5 weeks old and was wondering if I could get some advice if possible.
We have noticed he seems very fussy after some of his feeds. It isn’t all of them, but for some he can be squirming a lot afterwards, straightening his legs out so he’s stiff, crying intermittently (it seems a dummy does calm him) and this happens until he falls asleep. This can either take 30-40 mins or sometimes a couple of hours.
Outside of this he is also farting quite a bit, however his poos are normal. Interestly he settles fine at night and will go down for 3-4 hour windows.
It does feel in the day that he is never quite settled. He wants to be held a lot of the time which is understandable as he’s only young, but even when asleep he’s often squirming, waking himself up and needs resettling during the day.
He does sometimes making these gasping noises when feeding on his bottle (he’s formula fed) and I have noticed he gets hiccups quite often and sneezes often, but I know these things can be typical in newborns.
At about 4 weeks he’s also started to get a rash on his face, ears and neck, but it’s hard to tell if this is baby acne or something else.
I was wondering whether perhaps he had a mild case of silent reflux. He isn’t sick a lot and I wouldn’t say we have hours of inconsolable crying, but more so just very fussy after some (not all) feeds and difficult to settle, which is where I’m struggling to pinpoint the issue.
We do try to pace his feeds and burp him regularly throughout the feed, although this hasn’t seemed to make a difference.
It’s difficult as baby no 1 was very easy and was just fed, barely burped and went straight down to sleep so I’m not experienced with any issues such as reflux!
Any advice would be welcome :)