Hi my baby boy was born on the 9th march at 3 weeks early. He had a low birth weight of 4.3lb due to IUGR and spent 11 days in transitional care. He is now 8 weeks old, weighs 7.5lb and is miserable. He screams almost all day apart from an hour or so when he naps.
He suffers terribly with trapped wind which wakes him up from his naps. I've tried pretty much everything I can think of to help - infacol, dentinox, gripe water, a sling, a bean bag, his Moses basket it's nearly vertical, white noise (which helps get him to sleep), baby massage, mam & dr browns bottles, comfort milk & probiotics and nothing seems to be helping. In fact I think it's getting worse. He drinks 150ml every 4 hours but sometimes goes 5 hours at night. He can lay on his changing mat ( only place he seems happy) for up to 2 hours awake and happy but as soon as he falls asleep he starts groaning in pain, pulling his knees up, cries, screams & holds his breath like he's straining while going red in the face. He does plenty of wet & dirty nappies. Cuddles don't soothe him at all and sometimes he screams more if he's picked up, I just don't know what else to do. It's heart breaking and extremely stressful. Can anyone think if anything I'm not trying? The HV isn't much help as she just recommends all the things I'm already doing. I haven't tried colief yet due to needing to put it in the bottle 30mins before a feed, I can't leave him screaming for 30mins before feeding him as he will be taking in so much more air and make his trapped wind even worse, plus the bottle has to be chucked 1 hour after being made so I'm going to end up wasting bottles as he might not finish in the 30min gap as it takes so long to get a burp out of him and try to wind him at every 30ml of he will be in even more agony. I'm at my wits end tbh and had to send him to his Nans house last night as I can't take the screaming anymore. Please help!! Thanks