When I saw your post I smiled - brought back fond and not so fond memories. Your littlest is now about 6-8 wks old? They go through a naturally gassy period starting right around 4-6 wks, lasting until about 10-12 wks. Awful, unbelievable gas in my son's case, screaming in pain, pulling his legs, yuck.
I did do an elimination diet at the suggestion of my ped, who had some sage advice. He said I could change my diet, and it might help, or I could do nothing, and most likely in a few weeks the whole thing would wane anyway. But if I changed my diet I might feel better because I would be *doing* something.
So I eliminated dairy (takes about 2-3 weeks to see any result), broccoli, cabbage, chocolate in the evening. I did find that it helped. I also gave him mylicon drops but that didn't help much.
If that doesn't work and things don't seem to get better, you can try the extreme elimination diet - pretty much drop all wheat, gluten, leavened products, cooked veggies, soy, and of course dairy. You do that for about 4 weeks, then slowly add back each food category. There's some info on elimination diets on www.kellymom.com.
GL!
I did do an elimination diet at the suggestion of my ped, who had some sage advice. He said I could change my diet, and it might help, or I could do nothing, and most likely in a few weeks the whole thing would wane anyway. But if I changed my diet I might feel better because I would be *doing* something.
So I eliminated dairy (takes about 2-3 weeks to see any result), broccoli, cabbage, chocolate in the evening. I did find that it helped. I also gave him mylicon drops but that didn't help much.
If that doesn't work and things don't seem to get better, you can try the extreme elimination diet - pretty much drop all wheat, gluten, leavened products, cooked veggies, soy, and of course dairy. You do that for about 4 weeks, then slowly add back each food category. There's some info on elimination diets on www.kellymom.com.
GL!
