Help - Collicy baby

LittleBit_2

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to help a collicy baby? Max is really unsettled in the evening and very windy, and nothing we try seems to bring it up. He is breastfed, so obviously we can't try different styles of bottles etc

Rachel83

Have you tried changing your diet? Might be a long shot, I didnt have any issues with my kids but my friend had issues with eating dairy. She stopped that and it seemed to help loads?

Sarahsaver

Well done for breastfeeding first of all
My dd went through that stage and i found feeding her lying down helped. Also if you think you may be eating something causing the upset try cutting that out. Cabbage was a no no for me in the early days, little one hated me for eating it!
I never used colic drops as they are silicone which wraps the gas in a bubble and just seems unnatural to me, and the dill based ones just make babes stink of dill in my experience (little one is no.4 )
Also have you tried using a sling/baby carrier as sometimes the motion may help.
the first thing i did with my dd when she was tiny and cried is put her to the breast, always offer that first. When dd appeared to have colic she preferred to feed on one side more than the other.
hth x

starbump

Here is a list of potential colic triggers in your (breastmilk) diet: http://askdrsears.com/html/8/t083301.asp

And some medical causes (and symptoms): http://askdrsears.com/html/5/t051300.asp#T051303

Hope Max (and everyone else) feel better soon!

Krystaltips

Massaging her tummy in a clockwise direction and pushing his legs up to his tummy then extending them down again can help get wind out... Find out if your local surestart have any baby massage classes you can sign up for to learn a bit more...

Well done for the breastfeeding!

Mupette

I used to have a nice warm bath with baby in with me up to their neck.. (not tooo warm ofc)

I used infacol SP? from the mw,

Or you could ask mw what she would suggest.

Bethankim

I used to lie my ds on his tummy over my lap and rubbed his back..it seemed to bring up his wind better and eased it

elaina79

I used a mixture of laying my daughter on her tummy and rubbing her back, then laying her on her back and rubbing her tummy clockwise. Push the legs up and do a slow cycle movement with them. The changing positions and moving the legs helps release the bubbles of gas and they can then release it.

Rockporkchop

I used a Tummy Tub bath for all of mine. They are about £20 in Mothercare but you can pick them up on ebay quite cheaply. It is the most fantastic invention, I used to bathe the LOs in it in the evening and they literally sat there burping the whole time. They fit into it until they were seven months old.

fernliebee

My DD was a very windy, breastfed baby. My HV told me I didn't need to wind her as she was BF but she would have popped!!! Like some other posters I never used any meds for my DD as I prefer natural methods. Things I found really helpful were:

Wrap Sling- DD loved it, and helped bring up wind.

Baby massage.

Lying DD on her front and patting her back for a while, then sitting her up and winding her- seemed to settle the wind into one big burp iyswim.

Winding her in the middle of a feed ie 10 mins in once flow has slowed, as she was very greedy feeder at start as I had a very quick letdown so wld take in air too.

Winding her using all different positions, then handing her over to dad as he seemed firmer with her and could get more up.

Good winding technique I found was sitting her upright on my knee, hand under chin and using over hand to press the small of her back in so her spine was straight- would get lot's up.

Keeping her mainly upright when holdeing her, she hated lying down unless she was asleep and I think it was because the wind would hurt her.

In the night, I would feed lying down, then when she was finished, let her carry on lying next to me for 5 mins, then wind her, then lie her back down and wind her again before putting her back to bed. Otherwise she would just wake up as soon as I put her down as the wind seemed to settle.

Employ other people to help wind them, the mixture of different peoples techniques seemed to help and more importantly gives you a rest from the seemingly endless task of patting babies back for a burp!

Hope he feels better really soon, I know what your going through and it's not nice to see them all uncomfortable and squirming. x

Sharra

We used to use Infacol with our son - he used to scream every evening without fail. I have also heard of sucessful results from cranial osteopathy.