Thoughts on gas drops?

BabyGsMom

DS is 2 weeks old and didn't have any issues burping until a couple days ago (we're breastfeeding).  Now, as he eats more and eats more quickly, he's getting gassy.  Sometimes, especially with night feedings, it's so bad after he eats that he's awake and totally uncomfortable for a long time (like an hour in the middle of the night, ick).  Our pediatrician mentioned yesterday that we could try some gas drops to break the big gas bubbles into smaller ones.  Has anyone had really great success/failure?

rimjob

Love them! 

Puppins

We tried Gripe Water, seems to work, our little guy is getting better at burping now- but I am glad I have the gripe water in case.

themissizz

We add gas drops to every bottle.

bethandjoe09

We tried Mylicon drops when DS was having really bad gas (fortunately, it seems to have mostly passed).  To be honest, I wasn't really convinced that they did anything aside from make me feel better because I was trying to help.  Bicycle legs seemed to help a lot more (at least, for gas).

And yeah, he definitely got more worked up about it in the middle of the night.

teshy1

I've used simethicone drops for the past few weeks and I feel like they do help some.  Basically, I've noticed DD being able to burp and pass gas more easily. 

Taryn5382

They don't help us at all. We used them for a while and it seems they made it worse. We use gripe water and it works great!

RumbleLina

DS is a horrible burper but Mylicon seems to help because we are able to get a lot more burps out of him. It doesn't work that way every time though but he has had some HUGE burps too, it is awesome. DS has also been gassy so I am hoping by getting these burps out it will help him.

sjcoregon6

We used Mylicon a few times about that age. I only gave our DD about half the dose. A full dose made her sleep (almost coma type) and that scared me. It did help though. She is 5 wk now and much better about burping.

JLSmith124

They work about half the time for us. The gassy days are getting better and we are having fewer of them, I think because he is getting older.