Unsettled (assuming gassy baby) at night

Is anyone else dealing with a really unsettled baby at night.

My LO is a formula fed 5 week old and currently wakes up twice a night for a feed. At the moment, she is really unsettled after the 1st night feed - usually around 2am - as though she has trapped gas and is in discomfort. She does go down easily but is really unsettled - straining, crying out, sometimes grunting and legs curling up etc. She does tend to settle again after some fussiness for literally a few mins then the same cycle starts again. The only thing that works to settle her is lying her on my chest on her tummy.

Tried infacol, lots of different burping techniques including belly message, a dummy, keeping up longer after feed, tilted mattress but it's getting worse.

Next thing is colief and p9tentially a different formula.

She passes gas often and we do usually get burps after a feed.

I get all babies are different, but anything you can share that works for you would be amazing!

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Omg my 5 week old daughter is the same. I feel like I’m just getting through each night atm but I can’t keep having her on my chest after 2/4 but she just won’t settle in her crib after that time x

We have exactly the same issue with our little boy except our issue is the feed before he goes to bed at around 9pm, exactly the same symptoms and we are also using infacol, we’ve tried gripe water which did absolutely nothing 🤦🏼‍♀️

We tried coleif and it worked for about a day, so we changed his milk to the cow and gate comfort and started swaddling him. We have also reduced his milk consumption right down which has made him less fussy but we do still have issues! We’re going to see a feeding coach and osteopath tomorrow because it’s literally the only other thing we haven’t tried!!

Sorry I don’t have any advice, apparently their digestive systems slow down at night so I’m wondering if it’s just that cause they’re still so little!

I had this problem also, tried infacol and then was told to try coliefe which you have to wait 30 mins before feeding which made my girl worse & now we have switched to cow and gate comfort & this seems to be helping loads. She’s so much more settled & wind comes up now xx

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