Unsettled baby
If my baby is awake, chances are he is crying or upset in some way. He is 8 weeks old and I haven’t had a single day where I thought he was happy or okay. We’ve changed his bottles, changed his milk, I’m now dairy free too so changed his breast milk too. When he drinks he sounds like he is absolutely gulping it down and you can hear the air in his tummy. I don’t know how to help him and the doctor just says he’ll grow out of it. Like that’s all well and good but he’s in pain now and so am I 😭
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It’s probably colic tbh, which they do tend to grow out off by 6 months, is he struggling to poo or get his wind up? My baby when she was first born struggled to poo and get her wind up, she’s fully formula fed so we started putting infocol in her bottles which helped her for a few weeks but then stopped due to her body just getting used to it so we then switched to comfort milk which she’s been fine off and she’s now a very happy smiley baby, but it may just be a case of having to wait it out if nothing works
Sma first milk, sma colic and constipation and Althera CMPA milk.. I think I’m doing all I can with the breast feeding cause I’m dairy free
It could be fast letdown/over supply. It can make them take on lots of air as they are gulping to try to keep up. Or it could be an oral tie like lip or tounge (have they been assessed?
Also it definitely sounds like trapped wind. You can try different burping techniques, i really struggle to get burps out of mine too, sometimes i find putting him down for a few minutes after burping then trying again it will come up easier. You can also try tummy massage, bicycle legs etc. 6-8 weeks is peak fussiness as well so will probably start to improve soon anyway
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