Windy baby ... arghhhh

Hey, Morgan is really having trouble with wind and its driving me batty (would be fine if I didn't have a whiney toddler with chickenpox to deal with too!). Its like she has colic but without the crying!! She is up for 3-4 hours plus most evenings and as soon as she drifts off is awake again squirming with wind. We are spending the whole time holding and rocking her, which is a pain ... but she is also getting quite windy during the day now so is taking ages to get down (not as long though). I've tried colimed spray, gripe water, cooled boiled water, every winding technique we know and dh is off to get some infacol which someone suggested so fingers crossed that works. I have also taken the things that made Jake windy out of my diet - chocolate, fizzy drinks, orange juice and citrus fruit, and now cheese too. Maybe I need to cut down on the lollies?!

She is a bit of a guts / gulper so have tried sitting her up a bit more too.

She shows all the classic signs of wind and I have heaps of milk so its not hunger in the evening (actually think an over-supply is causing part of the problem, but i am trying to address that). Have also tried taking blessed thistle (worked for jake) but apparently that increases milk supply so I'm not keen to keep taking them as that may be making it worse!

She is great once down and will sleep for hours so can't really complain. But sometimes (evening generally) she is awake so long she needs another feed, which make the whole thing worse! (so I try not to).

So -- any suggestions?!? DH is back to work next week, so I won't have time to be winding / rocking her for an hour at a time then!! (with whiney toddler underfoot).

Henry had really bad wind and also reflux. We started sleeping him on his tummy at about 4wks because the only place he would sleep was on my chest on his tummy so though maybe he would sleep if we put him on his tummy - and tada he did. Seemed he could bring up wee burps in this position while asleep if he needed to. I still kept him upright for 40mins after each feed but that was for his reflux and i used a tri pillow proped up against the couch on the floor so he was in a semi upright position. Front pack also worked well for the 40mins we kept him upright. A front pack might work until you find a solution for the wind. At least then youd be hands free. Good luck hun

I use to either express some milk off first or latch him on and then when he pulled of cos of my letdown I would let my boob spray into an old style cloth nappy (still have to do that sometimes) and then put him back on once my boob had calmed down. I also found that using a dummy helped him bring the wind up as the sucking seemed to relax him and also putting him on his tummy for bit.
I also cut out all dairy and all chocolate, I now have milk in my tea/coffee and some chocolate as he seems ok if I don't go over board.

The only other thing I can suggest is maybe getting a front pack or sling and using that for a while until she is a bit older and better at bringing up the wind.

Oh and one other thing have you thought about seeing an osteo, I took Kyle to one, he was vontouse delivery so a bit of a rough arrival, and he stopped doing the back arching after feeds after seeing her. Didn't help him sleep any better though

Sharlene Poole, the baby whisperer was on good morning on Tuesday talking about burping and wind and if you go onto the TVNZ website you will be able to go and watch her clip..

See if this works:
http://tvnz.co.nz/good-morning/s2009-e210709-babywhisperer-video-2858443

Just scroll down the list and you will see the 21 July tv clips, there is two separate ones, one for the technique demo and one for the question and answer session. I hope that it is helpful.

On our way out the door so have to be quick otherwise DH will get grumpy!! Try Naturo Pharm Antimonium Tart if it is wind. It is from their Classical range but can be hard to find. The mw at Helensville gave Ben some and he burped almost instantly. Good luck

I found taking fennel seed tablets & drinking fennel tea helped a bit with wind when I was breastfeeding.

Hi Nikki,

I really REALLY struggled with Tyler's wind when he was little, he grew out of it by the time he was a couple of months old. I found the only thing that worked for him was Weleda Colic Powder... not something you would normally use for wind. I mixed it with boiling water (I think 5 mls from memory) and gave it to him in one of those munchkin medicators before every feed and it worked SOOOOO well. Its a homeopathic remedy