gassy baby

is it normal for a 2 month old baby to constantly need to fart? he will have a feed and need to fart then he will sleep for hours wake up needing to fart, we also need to help him fart as he cant fart by himself most of the time and its starting to become a problem and affect his sleep.

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Does he feed ok? Does the wind bother him? My baby was extremely gassy and in a lot of pain with it. We found out at 6 weeks he had a tongue tie which was causing him to take in air whilst feeding. Since his tongue tie has been cut he is much better.

he does have a tongue tie but the midwife said that it wouldn’t bother him so it wasn’t a big deal, what is the latest age he can get it cut by?

he wriggles so much, pushes his head back, arches his back and straightens his whole body out.

midwives aren’t qualified to diagnose a tongue tie or the severity of it! Tongue ties can cause intake of air which causes gas and also reflux. I would get it properly assessed. I don’t think there is an age cut off just it depends whether it can be done without the need for going into hospital but I’m not sure when that is. My LO was 6 weeks when he had his cut by a tongue tie practitioner in her clinic (not hospital).

after a lot of googling i’m really surprised she just dismissed it like that, she even said shes got a tongue tie and shes fine😅Who would i be ringing for this my GP?

So when I realised my LO latch was not right I was told to speak to the health visitor. When I went to one of their clinics they said they didn’t think he had one but I pushed because I knew something wasn’t right and they are also not qualified. They did refer me for tongue tie assessment by the NHS but did warn me that babies who are formula fed and gaining weight would likely either not be seen or be waiting a while. They prioritise breastfed babies and babies whose feeding is affecting their weight. So it depends on how you feed your LO really.
I was in the fortunate position that I was able to go private and it was sorted really quickly.
The person I saw was so good and through discussing with her I really don’t understand why they dismiss tongue ties in babies who are gaining weight because it can cause so many other issues too. It can also cause over feeding!

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Is it possible to get ppd 7 months after having my baby? I was initially REALLY enjoying him, I felt like I was doing so well, but just recently I’m struggling so bad, I am crying constantly, I have no motivation to do literally anything. I am still caring for my baby, he’s fine, but I feel like I am neglecting myself. I feel so lonely all of a sudden like I just exist to be Mum and that’s it and I don’t understand why I’ve started getting these thoughts and feelings, I feel so guilty that I’m not enjoying it anymore 💔 I love him so much I’m just feeling really lost.

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I think my husband and I are very much diving off a cliff toward divorce.

We’re both exhausted and that’s not helping.

Our daughter is 19 months old and for the last 5 weeks she’s refusing to sleep longer than a few hours in her cot. She wakes up sometimes after 2 hours, sometimes after 5 hours, it’s never consistent, and she then refuses to go back down in her cot. She has to be asleep on someone. It started with her having to sleep on me and hated her dad, then it moved to sleeping on either one of us, and it’s stayed that way ever since.

We’re both not only getting little sleep but we’ve been passing tonsillitis back and for to each other for months now even without being near each other.

We don’t kiss anymore or hold hands, we don’t say I love you very much or show that we do, we don’t do anything intimate… we just co exist in the same house.

I don’t know if it’s because of the constant illnesses or this sleep issue we’re having, but I don’t think we’re going to last much longer. We’re constantly snapping at each other and swearing at each other.

We don’t have time to ourselves because we don’t have a village or anyone available to babysit for us so we can’t get back on track that way.

I just feel like we had a child and everything went wrong.

We’ve only been married 2 and a half years and it’s already falling apart. I’m so disappointed but I’m also so fed up of being spoken to like absolute shit on a daily basis.

I don’t know what I want from this post. I just needed to vent and get it out because I have no friends and nobody to talk to about this stuff.

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Hi I’m in the middle of moving over to dr brown bottles from mam bottles to see will they help with my sons reflux / wind. Any one here find dr brown bottles good for this?