7 week old - Violent Flailing during sleep

[JoW1234]

My breast fed baby has been flailing violently during the night for several weeks now.
He seems to have stomach pain and is straining so I lift him to try and burp him and usually end up feeding him to try and settle him back down (give him gripe water also).
He has his eyes shut and husband thinks I should leave him but it's disturbing to watch and he crys from time to time. His muscles must ache after a whole night of this.
He doesn't like being swaddled and struggles to get his arms free ASAP!
Any one have similar issues and any tips?
Thank you!

What are you doing to help the wind? Have u tried grope water etc?

Personally I would persist with the swaddling - make it quite tight (but mind the hips). My dd was a master escapee artist but it really helped her sleep and she stopped fighting it after a few nights.

*gripe water, obvs

My ds was the same. We found colief amazing, as soon as we started using it he slept peacefully. And it is available on prescription. We stopped needing it when he was around 4 months.

Yes colief was a godsend too. But depends what its like. Colief was better for tummy pain, gripe water was better to get the burp up.

Thank you both.
We gave him colief to deal with sickness during his first four weeks but stopped once the sickness got better. I must admit it only seems to be since then that he is doing this so will try again. It's quite labour intensive with expressing and adding to bottles but of course will try anything! Gripe water does only seem to be shifting burps not helping the stomach pain.
Will go back to swaddling as well mrsspagbol, I had read in the baby whisperer to only do this up to six weeks but I guess that's not a hard and fast rule.

My DS was swaddled until 18 weeks, he resisted the first few nights but then loved it. We used a Swaddlepod then Woombies when he grew out of that.

The other thing that can help is the Tummy Tub bath, the upright position is great for wind and stomach pain and it relaxes them so much.