How do I know what’s bothering my baby?

[Flowergirl89]

I feel a bit silly coming on here as this is my fifth baby but I don’t remember any of of my others being like this. Baby is 2.5 weeks old and breastfed with one bottle of formula a day. Overall she’s a happy content baby but she has times after feeds where she’s really windy and fussy. She brings up wind easily after feeding but then seems very uncomfortable. I find the internet very overwhelming as there are so many possibilities as to what it could be, on the other hand it could be general newborn fussiness. How do I go about pinpointing what could be bothering her?

She’s just a baby. She’s never had actual food in her gut before. It takes time for it to settle, months. Just do some bicycle legs and other stretches, it makes it feel like you’re doing something.

The internet will try and sell you a solution, because then someone can make some profit from your baby being a baby. Whether that’s colic drops, a special seat, or some other crap. But just cuddles and time together.

Would it be possible to drop the formula if you’re already breastfeeding? Your milk is incredible and adjusts to her, whereas formula is bog standard and was invented to help babies survive rather than thrive!

Ye that’s what I’m thinking , that it may just be newborn behaviour and I’m forgetting what it’s like. The one formula bottle is so my husband can do one feed at night. I find pumping such a faff with all the sterilising etc

If giving a bottle of formula one a day works for you, don't change that! I combination fed my baby for 8 months.

I often wondered whether something was wrong during the newborn phase, despite being breastfed (bar one bottle) my baby needed a lot of burping and was prone to being sick after feeds. Nothing was wrong, they were just a newborn! My baby has quite bad witching hours from 5-9pm every night and I would watch the clock till my partner returned each night from work. It passed, I learned my baby's cues, they got better at communicating (different cries for different needs) & they just got bigger and whatever causes babies to be miserable in the evening finished.