question about gas... also on 36

Jered&Gena

DD gets gas pretty bad. We give gripe water and that helps. Dr said she will out grow it, but I didn't ask when. If ur Lo had gas when did it get better? We will be 10th on Monday. Thanks!

JulyMomma2U2

10th on Monday -- does that mean 10 months??  God I hope not  

My DS has TERRIBLE gas issues.. we've tried so many different things, and nothing seems to help.. I can't imagine dealing with this for 9 more months.. 

 

Karen1998

I think she means 10w. 

His colic issues (which included a ton of lower GI gas issues) greatly improved just in time for the 4m wakeful.  Around 9-10 months, his reflux got measurably better and he was mostly burping himself. 

Jered&Gena

Yeah that was auto correct. She will be 10 weeks Monday.

Jered&Gena

I'm glad to hear it improved at 4 months! That's not tooooooo far away! I just always feel so bad for her. :

big_noise

This was DD's issue. She got MUCH better at 12 weeks. Still had some here and there, but it was worlds better. It was like having a new baby. So, perhaps you're almost there? Hope so! Gripe water was a huge help to us - we would give it to her in advance of eating. Also used mylicon drops and Bob Marley music. Odd, but it worked. I thought our pedi was nuts and she wasn't. It really helped calm DD and still does as a toddler!

Jered&Gena

That's awesome. Crazy about the music.

johnnys june

DD still has gas issues at almost 10 weeks.  We use mylecon.  Gripe water only worked if it was reflux/burp related, so occasionally we alternated.  The pedi did suggest a non-dairy diet though because she had extreme gas on top of lots of spitting up.  That seemed to help alot, and when I have even a little dairy (butter, ect.), I can tell a huge difference.  Now her gas issues are minimal...once a day, or sometimes we'll have a bad day/day and half and then she'll have 2-3 huge bowel movements and be golden again.  Good luck!  I think most of it is just immature digestive system.  I've been told "this too shall pass."

Karen1998

The change was gradual.  Don't expect to wake up one morning and it'll suddenly go away.  It gradually started improving around 3m and was considerably better by 4m.  It also helped him (I was BFing) to cut out all dairy, even hidden dairy.  I was able to successfully add that back in after the 4m mark.   

Jered&Gena

Thank you for the advise.

lotus88

big_noise:

This was DD's issue. She got MUCH better at 12 weeks. Still had some here and there, but it was worlds better. It was like having a new baby. So, perhaps you're almost there? Hope so! Gripe water was a huge help to us - we would give it to her in advance of eating. Also used mylicon drops and Bob Marley music. Odd, but it worked. I thought our pedi was nuts and she wasn't. It really helped calm DD and still does as a toddler!

Very interesting.