Flatulance with my new born (3 weeks old)

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Does anyone have any advice for alleviating flatulance with my newborn? It wakes her and she then won't go back to sleep in her moses basket? She's clearly in pain with it. Thanks

Hi

My ds suffered too and we were advised to use infacol. We've been using it for over a month (takes about a week to 10 days to take effect) and ds does fabulous bottom burps () and such. Wish we'd used it from birth as ds had gripe quite bad too.

Also, gently massage her tummy in a backward C shape in an anti clockwise direction as this will help move things along. May help.

Good Luck.

No no no! Massage her tummy in a CLOCKWISE direction!

Fennel tea is excellent. In the evening put a fennel tea bag in a sterile bottle, pour over boiling water, close and leave to brew. In the morning give the baby a teaspoonful. If the baby is bottlefed keep the remainder of the tea in the fridge so that you can put a teaspoonful in each bottle, or if you are breastfeeding drink the rest of the tea yourself. It's very effective.

Also, to help the wind out, at every nappy-change as well as massaging her tummy, move her legs in a bicycling way and in a jumping way (grip her ankles and push towards her so that her knees come right up to her tummy and then straighten her legs out and repeat).

How old is she and how is she fed?

My friend has this problem with her 10 week old. Doc recommended laying him on his right side (slighly inclined) directly after feeding. Not up with the internal workings of babies tums but must have something to do with the way the gas works through the gut. Good luck.

Thanks for the advice. She is breastfed and 3 weeks old. I'll try the fennel tea, massage and Infacol.

My children have always been really windy, but with ds it was mostly 'upstairs' wind, and with dd mostly 'downstairs' wind. My HV says that that's probably because ds was mix-fed, so gulped air, but dd was breastfed and bfd babies can develop their gut fauna very quickly, which causes them to generate a lot of wind. It eases off after a few weeks as things settle down.

Tilting the baby helps get any wind in the stomach up to the top, so that it can be burped up and not pushed into the gut. That's why very young babies often burp after the nappy change that usually follows a feed.

my ds used to fart and not burp, we used fennel and /or caraway seeds steeped in boilong water as antural way to relieve the gas, it seemed to work he still trumped all night but not in any pain...
Good luck!

my dd use to fart for England, infact now I come to think of it she still does, but some great tips here for my next baby when it comes along, thanks!