Hi mommas.
Has anyone got experience with extremely gassy baby in the early morning (4am -7am on and off)?
She’s almost 8 weeks old.
She’s half asleep but she grunts and pushes her knees up and whines almost every night now and it’s obviously disturbing her sleep (as well as ours).
I’m not sure what else to do, I burp her, massage her belly before bedtime feed. Tried infacol and gripe water (this one worked while she was in her witching hour days) but I stopped it afterwards.
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Following! The exact same thing is happening to my little one.

Newborns do have active sleep and this includes what you’re describing with grunts and straining etc.
They are learning how to use all their muscles and when their digestive system kicks back into gear (usually in the early hours of the morning), they start rumbling around.
They’re not in any pain and they’re not awake - best to leave them to practice those muscles in their sleep.
It’s definitely hard to sleep through though, so you might like to consider putting white noise on to help you sleep through it

Same haha he starts farting and that’s when I know he’s waking up!

exactly! Poor thing i feel like all she has inside is gas

I guess it’s normal. For mine.. he starts farting and stretching also grunting and then he usually poops lol