Weaning causing trapped wind at night?

[princessofpersians]

My dd was 6 months on Christmas day and we started weaning her, following BLW. Since then though we have had some terrible nights due to trapped wind! She will be ok for a few hours after going to bed but then she will be up hourly straining.

We are putting dentinox in her bottles, and giving her gripe water to help but not having much success as it seems to be the other end she is having troubles with.

Has anyone else experienced this and is there anything else I can do to help? Also, if it is common, how long does it normally take to settle down?

My dd has had some trapped wind since we started weaning too. I've usually found its when I try and give her something other than fruit, veg or baby rice. She got very windy when she tried porridge, a rusk and cow's milk. The same can be said for bananas (other fruit has been fine). She's just not ready for these foods yet, so I'll just try again later. Can you relate your dd's wind to specific food?

Watching this too as our DD is similar age, and has woken screaming just now :-(

Suspect she needs a poo though...

Me too, DS always been windy and his night wakings, which have gotten worse and worse since about 4m, seem to be for this rather than hunger. It seems to have been more painful since weaning. Can't pin it down to any particular food as he is always like it, but could be banana or more likely just adapting to all the new stuff in his gut?. Difficult to know how to help him really so watching this thread for any ideas....

Well DD did her poo - and I'd reckon some of the discomfort was due to her guts having to make major adjustment from milk-only diet (and her poor bum too!). We've been giving her what we've been eating within reason (and without salt) and while she's loved it she's also actually consumed more than I'd realised. Well done her! But now I'll be more careful to include liquid/sloppy stuff to help her guts move things along, plus start giving her water to drink while eating (I'd thought breastmilk before/after would be enough). Banana probably one of the culprits though, and perhaps one too many sandwiches...

Yep, happened with my DS. It settled down after a week or two IIRC. I couldn't trace it to a particular food - I think it's to do with their systems adjusting from only milk to solids too.

I'd offer a few sips of water to wash down meals too. Tummy massage might help too - flat hand going down the tummy, then clockwise around it. (Probably best left till an hour after milk / food though.)

We had several nights where the only way he could get the wind out was to bf.

Thanks for your replies. It is all to do with her poo thickening up I think. She has just had the smallest, thickest poo after a lot of straining.

Will try the tummy massage and have upped her water intake, will also ply her with prunes and dried apricots.

Can anyone advise? My baby is 4 mths old and has been on aptamil comfort milk for 3.5 mths due to bad trapped wind etc but have been told that he will have to go on hungry baby formula before I wean him. Is this correct and if so should I change to aptamil 1 before so his digestive system can get used to something that is a bit more difficult than the comfort milk to digest?