My 8 week baby seems to struggle to sleep during the night, particularly from 3am onwards due to gas and and struggling to fart. He's BF or expressed fed and when laid on his back he wriggles and struggles and finally manages to fart, but it can go on for hours at a time. He doesn't struggle the same if he sleeps on us in our bed compared to his moses basket. Can anyone offer any advice please!
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Does he have reflux or could be silent reflux? My baby does this and at first we thought it was just developmental, but she also had increasingly bad reflux (bringing up almost full feeds). We have introduced gaviscon now after seeing the GP and (touch wood) she seems to do better overnight since. Gripe water also worked for us initially

It was the same with mine. She was so fussy and would make grunting noises all night long in her cot, but she would sleep well besides me. The doctor advised burping thrice or at least 10 min and doing leg bicycles to help them pass gas. Tummy time is also good for it. Stomach massages ( clockwise) and turning their legs side to side. Try bringing his legs closer to his tummy.
Sometimes, I gave her infacol, and it used to help tremendously
She is EBF.
we tried Gaviscon as I suspected reflux but it actually made him worse so I stopped after 3 days. I haven't tried gripe water yet but have some so I will give that a shot tonight.
thanks for the advice,I will give this a try too. Would you do this after every feed or just when he seems to be struggling? Perhaps it's laziness on my part that at 2am i just want to feed and pop him back to sleep ASAP so I can catch some sleep myself before his next feed.

Have a look at ‘farmyard hours’ it’s those early hours where their digestive system wakes up and they start grunting a lot.
I haven’t found a cure but sometimes he’s not actually awake, he’s just trying to move the gas himself
I'm hoping he will out grow it soon as it's tiring. I try to tune it out if I think he's in active sleep with it and in his basket but if it's after nightly feeds or nappy changes he struggles to fall back asleep and sounds as if he struggles with it so it's impossible to tube out or ignore.