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Posted By: Henna79
Subject: a question
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 11:54am
Alex (I think) is used to breastfeeding now as most of the time he latches first time and is very happy but I am wondering if the next part is normal. He gets really upset when he needs to fart, poop is liquidy and its all rather upsetting for us all. I think thats all I wanted to say but now my brain has shut off 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 11:59am
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New born poos are very runny so that sounds normal. When he is trying to fart you could rub his belly clockwise as that helps move the wind or lay him on his back and pump his legs towards his body. The other thing to do is to try and make him burp all the wind up by sitting him upright for a while after each feed so that he doesn't need to fart it out. Good ways to bring up wind are sitting upright, putting over your shoulder and gently patting or lay face down across your knees and rub back (put spew cloth on floor for any spillys).
Failing that you could try either gripe water or infacol. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 3:11pm
Emily was the same. She would screw up her face in pain and arch her back. It would take ages to wind her. Sometimes just one winding method wouldn't work alone so would have to combine all of them until we got it all out. And if we didn't manage to get the wind up, it would come out later at the other end - big farts and runny poos (yes they're normal) would make for a very big mess!! But she felt better afterwards ------------- 
 Missed MC July 2011
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Posted By: Henna79
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 4:10pm
| thanks guys. Mum said to me maybe he is being a piggy and so we were thinking about maybe only feeding for a certain amount of time. Any ideas on this method? At his last feed I only fed him for 5 mins and then MW was here for his 1 week check and after she was done with him he had cuddles and has been asleep since (that was an hour ago) so am wondering if maybe he got enough and so was thinking about trying to limit how much time he feeds for to see if that helps |
Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 8:46pm
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Not sure about that. It's best to let them feed for as long as they want. If you stop his feed rather than let him finish, you might find he wont sleep properly during the day and keep waking for more feeds. Then if his day sleeps are shortened and disrupted he might not sleep well at night either. Also, your milk production might go a bit haywire because bubs controls your milk supply by how long he feeds for. Just bear in mind that babies do take in a lot of wind when breastfeeding so it's completely normal. It's just one of those things that newborns do and you might find that as he gets older it will get better. With Emily it took a lot of persistence and patience burping her after every feed but now she's mastered the art of burping on her own as soon as I lift her up after a feed. -------------
Missed MC July 2011
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Posted By: KiwiWonder
Date Posted: 16 August 2008 at 2:14pm
I wouldn't limit time for feeding either - especially this early on! 1 week olds are still learning to breastfeed, and limiting that isn't going to be good for either of you :( If anything, I'd burp him more often - say stop after 5 / 10 minutes and wind him, then try offering again, as sometimes that's easier / more effective / less messy  than just burping them after a full feed.
The other thing to keep in mind, especially at this early age, is that hungry babies have a 'starvation mode'; if they don't get enough to eat they are lethargic and sleep more, then have little energy to feed, thus can't get enough, and it's a nasty cycle. K did this so I speak from experience - meanwhile I thought she was contented as she'd happily sleep in excess of 4 hours straight!  In very young babies, sleep is not always a good thing.------------- Margo |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 16 August 2008 at 2:20pm
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I wouldn't limit his feeds, it can cause alsorts of problems with your supply and also you could get sore boobs as they are not empting at each feed. Try gripe water as he is a bit young at this stage for infacol. But his poos sound perfectly fine for a newborn BF baby. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |