[Mummy Duck]

My poor little baby is almost 8 weeks and gets terrible pain from wind and farts alot! He attaches well and the ABA counsellor thinks I may have a fast flow that may be causing some of the wind.

He feeds really fast and is done in 3-7min. Feeds every 2-3 hours with one 5 hour break between feeds in the early evening. He is putting on between 250-400 grams a week and is currently about 6.5kg.

Any ideas on what foods might be a causing excessive wind?

This is my third baby and Ive never had this issue before.

[Lucretia Borgia]

For me (and him) it was when I ate dairy products....

Edited to fix typos...

This post has been edited by Lucretia Borgia: 07/08/2012, 02:42 PM

[Sassy Girl]

The ABA is right (as they should be as they are the experts ).

My diet never affected my children but the fast flow of milk affected no.1 and no.3

[redkris]

I don't react too well to oats (bloating, wind) but still used to eat muesli. When I was BF DS he was always very farty with stomach pains in the afternoons after I had had muesli for breakfast. Same with porridge. I stopped, and he stopped.

[ubermum]

Sure can.

Rather than asking for what affects other babies, the best thing that you can do is keep a food diary for yourself and in it, document what you eat and your babies behaviour. Once/if you see a pattern, you can modify it.

When I eat chilli or food from the brassica family (cauliflour, broccoli, kale, brussels, turnip) my baby doesn't really fart more, but my word she pongs. My baby is quite windy all the time, but I generally eat a lot of food that cause wind. It doesn't seem to annoy her though. Her sister was a bit different, with her I used infacol and found that made her a much happier baby.

[fairyflossfart]

With most of the kids, in the short lengths I breastfed you could tell they would have wind if they hurried a feed.
With the one I breastfed longest, it was chocolate, anything spicey or eggs.

[greenthumbs]

Cauliflower in this house! Funnily enough, now he's on solids it's one of the few veges he won't touch

eta: eggs as well in the early days, but this subsided fairly quickly.

This post has been edited by greenthumbs: 07/08/2012, 02:50 PM

[Tesseract]

Some babies are just gassy and struggle with it as their gut matures, and there is very little you can do about it. If you start wildly excluding things from your diet you will likely end up hungry, frustrated and no closer to an answer. As ubermum said - keep a journal of what you eat and baby's behaviour and see if you can discern a pattern. It's pretty easy to get caught up in conformation bias though, so try to be objective.

Here is a link with more info on foods and breastfeeding http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-foods/

I had a gassy baby, I never excluded anything from my diet, she grew out of it. A few women in my mothers group excluded things such as dairy, chilli, garlic etc and "three weeks later the fussiness really decreased!" - about the same time my baby's did too, simply because her abdominal muscles matured.

[lucky 2]

Do you have heaps of milk? Often the more pregnancies you have the more milk you will make. If they are quick feeds, are they off one breast?
Are you breasts comfy or are you tending to get blocked ducts/uncomfortable lumpy breasts?

[runnybabbit]

Agree with PP that my baby had bouts of gassiness and fussiness, but I never could pinpoint a certain food. I think babies just change so much, all the time, in the early months. So no, IMO. But I get that other women have had vastly different experiences.