Wind stopping baby from sleeping.

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Can anyone help? Please?
My gorgeous 15 wk DS has started getting bad trapped wind at night. It only started about a week ago, I can't figure out what's changed. He seems fine during the day, but then at night he just can't sleep. He wakes up, pulling his legs to his chest, occasionally pushes out a fart, so I'm sure it's trapped wind. He's bringing up less wind in the daytime too. I'm trying infacol and gripe water- haven't seen a difference yet.

He's so lovely, but I really feel exhausted and teary. My DH has been disappointingly worse than useless, and I've had about 3 hours sleep per night for the last week.

I've tried all sorts if winding techniques. NOTHING! Should I go to doctors? Contact HV? Is there anything they can do?

Has anyone else experienced this? I can't understand why it's suddenly started- could it be a phase? Please say its a phase!!!

Have you tried keeping him upright for 20-30 mins after a feed? Also putting a folded towel under the head end of the mattress to raise it up a bit. I've been doing both of those for DD's reflux and they also seem to have helped with wind.

Echo what giraffe said-a faff & takes a lot of time but worth it

Also infacol & gripe water

Thanks both.

Does it sound like it could be reflux? I assumed wind because he sometimes squeezes a little fart out

Does reflux cause wind?

Not really sure, sorry. :(

If he is pulling his legs up it sounds like wind....but a bit unusual for it to have just started at 15 weeks if he was fine before. My DS was a nightmare with this as a newborn, but it started to improve around the 3 month/15 week mark.

Might be worth a chat to your HV to see if she's ever heard of this before, and what she suggests? Are you BF or FF? If FF, we put DS on Comfort Milk to help with his wind/colic issues and it really helped him, you could talk to HV about this? Aptimil and Cow&Gate both make a comfort milk. Not sure what to suggest if you're BFing.

Have you tried lying him on his back and 'cycling' is legs, or pumping them back and forth? That seemed to help DS with his wind pains.

Also, sorry to hear your DH is ebing useless, sleep deprivation is awful. If you're FF, can you ask DH to take charge of your DS for one night this weekend (take him downstairs in the moses basket all night if necessary) so you cna put some ear plugs in and catch up a proper nights sleep? DH did this for me when our DS was about 5 weeks old and we were in the middle of 'windgate' horror.

Thanks everyone- just so weird it started so suddenly! He's 15 weeks- could it be an early 4 month regression? (He was 2 wks late- would that make a difference?