Hi all,
just looking for some advice and to see if this happens for anyone else.
my baby boy is 6 weeks (7 weeks in a few days) and is formula fed. Sleeps in a next to me attached to our bed.
for the last few weeks he generally goes down about 9/10pm and can do a 4 hour sleep for the first bit and then wakes up so I feed him. I change him, feed him, keep him upright for about 20 mins then cuddle back to sleep so normally lasts about an hour. I wind him loads too.
so tonight that was between 2-3am then he slept til around 4.30/5am. The problems start from here. He is on comfort milk so easier to digest and has been for around 4 weeks. Does struggle with constipation so we give a tiny amount of lactulose in the morning which helps him go once a day.
come 4.30/5am every day, baby grunts, strains, cries, wriggles like he’s trying to fart/poo. It’s so loud it wakes me up. Then from 4.30 onwards it’s broken sleep, max 20 mins at the most. He is honestly like a fish out of water wriggling and squirming that much in his cot. Sometimes he does farts which don’t seem to help. I make sure everyday we get up between 7/7.30 and start the day but I don’t know what to do to stop him waking up with the gas pains. He isn’t like this during the day or any other time just every early morning