anyone's babies too farty to sleep?

[hobnob57]

DD2 is 4 months , ebf and sensitive to my diet. I've excluded the main culprits (dairy, soy, gluten, nuts, eggs).

Recently, she has begun waking more at night. Now I know this is more common at 4mths, but when she wakes she is struggling with wind. And it is preventing her from napping successfully at all during the day. I'm hoping that this isn't another intolerance issue - I'm strict with my diet so I know I haven't eaten any of the above recently. It might coincide with her going days between dirty nappies. Does anyone else have this problem, or should I trudge back to the allergies board?

Yes! This has been a big problem for my DD, now 9wks (born 4 weeks premature).

It does seem to be improving a bit now for some, all or none of the following reasons:

1.We give her extract of fennel, chamomile and anise as sold for flatulent babies at our local pharmacy.

1. We massage her tummy and bend up her legs at every nappy change - produces some excellent farts!

1. I put her to sleep in a fetal position on her side (with sleep positioner and breathing monitor for safety reasons) - she is much more comfortable and can pass wind etc. more easily and with less disruption to her sleep.

1. We do lots of bottom patting when she starts to get wakeful - helps her stay asleep while the wind works through and hopefully teaches her not to get so worried about the sensations.

1. Her digestive system is starting to mature.

Don't know if you're doing any of the above, but it seems to be helping our DD!

Good luck, I know what you're going through.

oh yes, i can sympathise. my dd is now 7mo and it still troubles her. we spent weeks trying gripe water,infacol, homeopathic stuff, etc,etc. i agree that bicycling legs or frog legs helps a lot, and it is always better when she has done her weekly poo. i also try winding loads after a feed, thinking that if it comes out from the top, it wont travel through to the bum!
bizarrely, sometimes it takes just a few sucks of the breast for her to relax enough to let it out too, and then i put her back down, so without a proper feed, so to speak. weird, but it works!

Yes, seems to hurt my DD too when she farts, she is 19 weeks (corrected age 13 weeks)

Good to hear. We've had a terrible day of it. She keeps waking up 20 mins after being put down with a sore tummy. SOmetimes it's so bad she won't let me near it for massage/bicycle legs and all I can do is hold her while she screams it out. Poor thing.

Last night she was really restless after her dream feed for 40 mins until she relaxed enough to let out - and I'm not kidding - 2 full mins of farts. I wish I knew what was causing it. The weekly poo has yet to arrive so that can't be helping.

Most babies who have this problem have it because of their immature digestive system, I believe, and whatever we do probably won't make much difference and in time they just grow out of it...

For all our sakes, let's hope that's sooner rather than later...!

Aha! This might be an answer - I was looking into lactose intolerance and while this is very rare, 65% of babies don't have enough lactase to fully digest the lactose they receive - the symptoms are fartiness, frothy, fluid stools, discomfort etc. Ring any bells?

see here for more info

I'm trying the one breast 3-hour thing they suggest and it does seem to be helping a little, we'll see....