Infacol/ gripe water - very gassy baby

Can I use gripe water and infacol? Or just one and see how it goes? My baby is really struggling crying all day red in face squeezing - I do bicycle legs and massages etc only a fart comes out but he continues crying badly then proceeds to choke because of the crying. He won’t feed for long either 😞. I Combi feed using cow and gate formula and breast. Shall I change formula? He also has reflux 😩

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With my little lad and his reflux we been prescribed baby gaviscon because it instantly thickens the food as is unable to come bk up like just normal formula , we can see very slow improvements he’s drinking his bottles normally again and no spitting his milk out it’s only been 3days so hopefully more improvement soon and feeding him sat upright and keep him up right 30mins after feeds

I’ve heard that infacol can sometimes make it worse. I’ve started using Dentinox which you can add directly to baby’s bottle and my little girl seems much happier now, she used to get so uncomfortable after feeds and seemed really gassy, but since using Dentinox she’s passing gas much easier and is much happier after a feed x

Ah I haven’t heard of dentinox il have a look into it! Thanks! Il continue with gripe water only for now but with his reflux he pukes it back out. I did use gaviscon but worried it’s making his trapped wind worse

I would maybe try colief? My eldest had infacol and it worked great but it didn’t for my second who also had reflux, colief on its own made a massive difference! Try that in baby’s milk and see if it helps before you switch milk or do anything drastic x

I think infacol and gripe water work well i use both but everyone different I brought them all before baby was born just incase . I also brought colief I heard its very good but again everyone different its all trial and error but with the colief if you purchase try less drops to start than straight to the 4 drops I think it was.

My son didn't take to colief well but it's added straight to the milk

Gripe water isn’t recommended for breastfed baby’s

Thanks guys some really useful information here ❤️

oh I had no idea! Just saw my health advisor and she didn’t mention that when I said I breast feed and gave him gripe water 😅 - how comes it shouldn’t be given?

I’m actually not sure 🤔 it was something the health visitor mentioned to me when I asked about it due to baby seeming uncomfortable with gas.
I took her at her word but having a quick google now, it appears she was wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh dear 😅 we never really know - different health advisors and midwives always say different things x

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circumcision

are we circumcising our boys? or leaving that to dad?

Should I be concerned or am I overthinking?

My little boy is 15 months old, he’s recently taken his first steps and he says mamma and dadda and baba (he has said these for months) we’ve filled out the paperwork for his 12-14 month review and it looks like he isn’t meeting many of his milestones.

He doesn’t copy actions, point, clap etc. He doesn’t react when being spoken to, or to his name. He actively avoids eye contact.

He was so unresponsive to sound that we just had his hearing tested concerned he was deaf. They found that he could hear so he is just choosing not to react to any noises or sounds.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with their little ones? Should I be raising this with the health visitor and ask to be assessed for neurodivergent issue or a social communication problem like autism?

I don’t want to just slap a label on him, but I do feel that there are real concerns. All opinions welcome!!

Routines?

When did you start to introduce your baby’s routine? Do they just have a night routine or full day routine? Wondering when I should start this e.g naps at the same time everyday.

Any routines you have that work for you, please let me know them with timestamps. my baby is 6 weeks and just wondering when we should start them?

Does anyone else’s baby spit up breastmilk but not formula?

I’m seriously considering seeing a lactation consultant because I don’t understand why he can’t hold down breastmilk but can formula. I use soy formula since I’ve used it with my daughter and I’m thinking it might be due to not getting milk coming in for a few days so I had no choice but to give him formula, but now even if I take breaks in between feeding him breastmilk to burp or try to mix breastmilk and formula, he spits it up sooo much. I’m ready to just give him just formula because I’m worried about him not eating enough

Reflux

I need some help my baby is 6 weeks old and recently when I try and wind him after his bottle he’s not bring any wind up and just keeps being sick, I’ve tried infacol but that doesn’t seem to be doing much.

I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.