Hi all- am struggling with my LG crying when feeding, she gets herself so worked up she refuses to take anymore whether that is breast or bottle. She is 4 weeks old. We are trying various things for gas (infacol, Colief, comfort Hipp formula). Once calmed she will sometimes take more, or just fall asleep, so am concerned she has not finished the feed. Has anyone else had this??
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She’s at an age now where she can have gripe water. That was a life saver for our little girls wind/colic.
1)infacol made her worse
2)dentinox had no impact what so ever
What we did:
- change the bottle she was feeding from. We’re using NUK but found these were just too much for her, too fast flowing and she was on the smallest sized teat. I can’t recommend dr browns bottles enough, these really helped her with her wind and she seemed so much more relaxed on the bottle.
-gripe water 30 mins after a feed. Great stuff!!
-I would count the swallows of milk she had and every 5-8 swallows would take the bottle out, allow her to have a breath and then go again.
- plenty and I mean plenty of burping, bicycle kicks and tummy massages.
It’s hard really hard when they have wind. Also if she is in a next to me, put this at an incline (if possible) this also helps with trapped wind xx

My boy is 2 now. But we had this when he was that a few weeks old
Every baby is different but I tried everything infacol/ colief / different milks / even prescribed milk for cmpa, we got prescribed carobel powder too
I only noticed a difference once we started using Kendamil milk which helped massively xx

Do you guys burp in the middle of feeds ? That may help!

we do have gripe water so will try that. We also have the anti colic bottles, so hopefully those will start to make a difference. The wind is so difficult to deal with!! Xx

we do but maybe not for long enough

I feel like we are trying everything too, maybe we just need to wait until she grows out of it, but may look at the Kendamil milk if all else fails xx

I’m having this exact same issue today! I’ve been crying for most of the day worrying that she’s got getting enough food! She’s either crying and refusing to feed, or feeding and then coughing and throwing it back up.

Is Woodward’s gripe water the main one that people use?

this is the one I have bought

we try to get our girl to burp twice before feeding again. Kendamil constipated our girl we use the frida windi pipes to help and they are a life saver. We used little remedies gripe water and she loved it lol

I have also been crying about this, and crying because she is crying!! It’s particularly distressing when I’m trying to breastfeed her

I feel exactly the same. It’s only happened the last two days. It feels like all of a sudden something has really gone wrong. I phoned the health visitor this morning and they did recommend Dr Brown bottles if we were to bottle feed x

it might be Thrust too do check her tongue for symptoms.

My little girl was the same so we upped her mam teets to size 2 as feeding took an hour with number ones she now does they quicker and we use gripe water! What a difference x

My little girl the same she 5 weeks on Friday but still on size 0 teats and is only drinking 3 oz every 3 hours I tried to up to 4 oz but she still leaves the 1oz I wish she would feed more

@Chelsie ive done exactly the same with my LO. No mow 6 weeks and fingers crossed she's alot better.
Your LO may be trying to tell you she doesn't like the milk. My HV said they will refuse if they know its upsetting them. Have you considered switching brands? 🤔