ANyone else sick of so called miracle cures?

[staceyatgrey]

Is anyone else sick of thinking they have found the cure for there colicky/windy baby on the internet only to scroll down and find out you have to pay about £50 for the answer!! Sorry but if i had the "guarenteed to get rid of babys wind " answer or had a foolproof stay asleep method i would share it with desperate mums for FREE not try and make money out or tired and desperate people searching for real help! Sorry rant over!

Poor you. I would have done anything to get my Ds to sleep in the early days...would it help if I said he sleeps MUCH better now?

What have you tried?

How old is your DS? Mine just turned 6 months longest stretch he has ever has is 3 hours! just seems to be wind waking him up tried everything i think from gripe water, infacol, massage, chiropractor, water, routines, changing my diet, changing to formula, started solids now doesnt help either! just bottom end wind wakes him up he suffers with it but docs say he will grow out of it but i am flagging now !!

Have you tried excluding dairy from his diet? If he's on formula this would mean using a formula with the proteins broken down - you can get it on prescription from GP. HAs he got anything else like diarrhea, vomiting, rashes?

hello no other symptons i can think of i excluded dairy from my diet once didnt seem to work! but thanks may just have to go back to GP and beg for help this time! sure they just see me as a moaning 1st time mother that misses her sleep though i think 12 wake ups a night is not normal at this age surely?

I think lots and lots of wakeups can be normal (if really, really hard) but I don't think a 6 month old baby should be being woken by digestive issues - not normal I don't think.

If you excluded dairy from your diet thoroughly when BF and it made no difference, then I'm guessing it's not a dairy allergy.

How does he settle to sleep? Does he have dummy/ your presence/ rocking?

Ahahaha I'm afraid my ds is also 6 months and doesn't do more than 3 hours at a stretch! So my comments are about as useful as the proverbial teapot.

Random thought - the Japanese use a thing called a haramaki (a stomach wrap made out of stretchy material) which warms the area and also applies gentle pressure. My MIL sent me a couple recently to try as my ds also trumps himself awake.

Even more odd, I've just googled them and you can buy them in the uk! www.nukunuku.co.uk/nukunuku-kids(2197844).htm

Given your thread title I'm obviously not suggesting you buy one but perhaps you could make one? You would need to be care of overheating right now too.