Crying when feeding

[WW1]

I've put this in baby club but thought you lovely ladies may have some ideas!

Basically for the last couple of days my LO has cried pretty much every feed. She starts off hungry and takes to the bottle well. After a little while she then goes red, starts to pump her legs and screams.

I try to burp her (with mixed success), she calms down, takes a bit more (is obviously hungry still) and then the screams start again.

I'm pretty sure it's linked to gas (the screams are usually followed by farting) but it really seems to hurt her. Can I do anything to ease it? Feeding is supposed to be a happy time and I'm starting to dread it as I don't want her to be in pain.

I'm putting it down to gas but could it be something else? She is on reflux medicine and I'm using infacol.

Any throughts would be very welcome x

 

[blahblahblah]

This sounds identical to what happened with my DS. We found two things that helped

1. offer cool boiled water between feeds. We found 1oz per day was the magic amount to keep things 'flowing' - it took about 5-7 days to have an effect. My LO wasn't keen on the water, or we'd have just continued with that.

2. switch to an easy digest formula - we use cow and gate comfort. Again, it takes a little while to make much difference, I'd say 1 week to clear the old stuff out of their system, then another week before the offensive pooing and farting calms down. My LO now has this and no water.

 

[AP]

Could be that the reflux meds arent doing everything they should? Maybe you could try another med?

 

[rea_rawr]

It sounds like colic. Signs of colic are baby going red in the face, Turning hands up into to fist's and pumping legs up and down. Along with loud very upset cries. Try some colic drops before her feed. I use infercol for my little one and that seems to do the trick. If this does not help take her to the drs and get some advice.

 

[purpledaisy2]

I always found gripe water worked better than Infacol, have you tried that?

And as sb22 said, maybe the meds arn't working as well as they should be ?

x

 

[hondagirl]

sounds just like colic, we have the same immediately after the feeds in the evening. i prefer infacol and use a full dose before every feed,seems to stop it.also, haveu got the right flow teat on, sometimes they can get frustrated!