what am i doing wrong with my middnight feed - and winding at night?

[Jane7]

my four week old baby has started waking only an hour after her midnight feed. he used to go from midnight to at least three am, sometimes four am, but now he becomes restless almost as soon as i put him down. i think he might have wind but i can't bring myself to wind him as it wakes him up at nighttime. Do other people wind there babies at night? If I don't he tends to posset quite a lot the next time I pick him up.

My only experience is with BF babies but I would always wind him as he may get a tummy ache if he has trapped wind.If he is BF I would just put him on the breast again even if it's only an hour, then you'll both get some sleep.
Don't know about bottle fed babies.

You definitely need to wind him. Does he start wriggling during the feed itself? If so, wind him then, then finish off- saves extra patting at the end! If he wakes up, feed him to send him off again. I had a golden rule of 100 pats with my DS, otherwise I wasn't disciplined enough to keep going as I was so desperate to go back to sleep!!! If he is BF you could check he's latched on properly, they can take in air through even a small hole- if you can eliminate this it may stop the problem in the 1st place.

I think that just by sitting DD gently upright is usually enough to "wind" them.Or putting them up on your shoulder and patting their back soothes them back to sleep and winds them at the same time.Doesn't have to be too vigorous(sp?)

If you don't wind her she'll be umcomfortable and not settle properly,so she'll be awake anyway.

The only thing I didn't do at night was use a light,I used a torch,and I never change them unless they'd done a Poo.

Sorry for "DD" I read first bit of your post said "her" then said "he" later.

We dream fed my dd a few times and I was worried that winding her would wake her. It didnt and she slept better after winding her.

I used to do a dream feed at about 11pm ish and didn't wind after this and they were both fine.

However i did wind after feeds they actually woke up for. Not sure what my rationale for this was tbh!!! It worked for me though.

Thinking about it, dream feeds were slow and steady. When they wake for feeds they have usually been crying first and guzzle so take more air in???

Four weeks is a growth spurt, and yes, he needs to be winded after a feed. You can wind him just before the feed is done and then put him back on to drop off again. I'm sorry but their sleep doesn't even start to develop patterns/distinguish between night and day until 6 weeks, so it's still a case of 'anything goes' and "sleep when your baby sleeps."