What is wrong with my baby?

[Moulesfrites]

Ds is 7 weeks old. He is ebf, and waking about every3 hours through the night at the minute, although at one point he was going for about 4-5 hours, so I don't know what has gone wrong there. The main problem, though, is that after I feed him, at , say, 3am or 4am, i wind him and put him down - he is in crib next to our bed, and rather than going back to sleep he writhes around, flails his arms around, kicks his legs, and makes grunting, groaning noises which are so loud! This can go on for an hour after the feed, then he wakes up again after and hour and a half or so to be fed again, so I am really struggling with tiredness!

I have tried changing him, winding him again, tummy massage etc and nothing seems to help. He doesn't ever cry during this process, musts grunts and chunters, so I am not sure if ihe is upset and distressed, but he may be uncomfortable. Does anyone have any advice? He doesn't seem to do it after the earlier feed at 12/1, but he seems much more awake after the later feed.

I think if he's just thrashing about but isn't crying I'd just be inclined to leave him alone. My two both liked a good thrash about (helped them bring the wind up I think) after night feeds. They grow out of it and in the meantime, you need some rest. At this age they are so ruled by their digestion, and can be very noisy at night, but it doesn't mean that anything is actually wrong.

Have you tried swaddling your DS? My 4-week old DD started this thrashing about and I found it helpful to swaddle her either before or after the 3am feed to prevent her from waking herself up. She hates hates hates the process of being wrapped in a swaddle, but once she's in, she usually calms down in minutes and feeds and sleeps better.

I had the same with my DS. There doesn't seem to be much you can do, although must admit that our solution - after thinking hard and deciding that if it wasn't waking him then it couldn't be causing too much discomfort - was for him to move into his own room at 8 weeks. This was following a night where he got loads of sleep but kept us awake most of the night in the process.

The only thing that made a slight difference was an extra blanket (or co-sleeping) from the 3/4 am feed as that is the coldest part of the night and he seemed to relax more being a bit warmer.

Does he grunt and groan after every feed or just that one?

Our DD had the same problem at that age. She was fine up till about 12-1am when she would start fussing and whinging. Quite often went on till 4-5am then she would sleep fine. It seemed like wind- you could hear a lot of gurgly noises from her tummy.One thing we thought helped was the anti-colic tummy massage, 3 times a day. She did grow out of it within a couple of weeks.

mine does this too, only after this feed. It's so frustrating isn't it as it's the feed you need to sleep after! Sometimes it means he needs a burp but mostly there seems to be no reason.

Now he's 10 weeks he is slowly growing out of it - last night he fed at 3 and I actually slept 4-6!

Hang in there.

My DS did this too horrendously. We tried everything and ended up co-sleeping tummy to tummy, since he was always far more comfortable when he wasn't lying on his back. At about 8 weeks he started to improve and went back in his moses basket for progressively longer periods.