Prem baby with wind

[sachah]

Hello all
My lovely boy was born 5 weeks early & is now 12 weeks. We are having heaps of issues with wind/gas. Most people have said that babies learn how to bring up wind after 3 months. I'm just wondering if that is 3 months + 5 weeks for us. Has anyone out there had a prem baby with wind? When does it end!

is it definitely just wind? quite a few prem babies have issues with reflux etc, so it might be worth getting it checked out... (that said, we were definitely winding ours way past 3 months!)

My little boy was also 5 weeks early and I did have to burp him until he was about 5 months. I thought it was normal, not having read that much but I remember another mum saying "you still have to burp him?" a bit incredulously.

He was always a posset-y baby but it wasn't reflux, you know if it's reflux - they projectile vomit their entire stomach contents regularly. He did this two or three times so I do know the difference between possetting and projectile vomit.

I remember him having a lot of digestion pain after feeding and having to just rub his tummy a lot and let him cry. He was and is otherwise a very cheerful chap.

He's 7 months now and doesn't need burping. He's been on solids for a month and eats really well. He does still posset quite a bit. I understand it's because the sphincter muscle between the stomach and the gullet is weak in babies anyway but is a bit weaker in prems.

I found that burping him over my shoulder with his legs dangling resulted in less bringing up of food than putting him in a sitting position, even though it sometimes took longer to bring up the wind.

Good luck - it will all be fine eventually. x

Hi, my ds wasn't premature, but had lots of problems with wind and digestion. He definitely still needed to be actively burped well past 3 months, especially at night.

It does lessen, though, especially with weaning. I found lying him on his back, gently cycling his legs, then slowly bringing him to a sitting position helped push the gas out of his stomach.

He's now over 15 months, and we have to be careful not to feed him too close to bedtime, or he wakes up with painful trapped wind.

Yes a baby born before 37wks will have it longer, colic usally goes at about 4 mnths but for my baby it will be 6 months. My baby also has reflux.

Good luck with the wind

Thanks for all the info
How will i know the difference between wind & reflux? When he spills, he doesn't cry & i was told he would if it was reflux.

With reflux they generally projectile vomit a great quantity. If he's just bringing up a couple of mouthfuls and they aren't coming out with any great force, it is not reflux.

You can actually have silent reflux too where they don't vomit. Both my pre term twins had it. One had the full on projectile vomiting out of the mouth and down the nose.The other would scream during and after feeds, arch his back, hate to lie flat and was very unsettled pretty much all the time. He also had colic and wind +++, He was medicated for reflux but it was Dr Brown anti colic bottles and a course of Cranial Oestopathy that sorted out the colic and wind problems. I was a real sceptic when we took him for the CO but after just one session there was a real difference xx

Hi any advice my baby was born at 31 weeks he is now 5 weeks but suffers a lot from wind any ideas it seems to be mostly at night