[RTT]

My 5 month old has been waking up every few hours a night with bad gas for the last week or so. She's EBF, nothing has changed in my diet, so I'm not sure what's up. She has been teething- one tooth broke through earlier in the week. I've been giving her Tyelenol for the pain so I'm wondering if that could be causing it- or maybe swallowing excess saliva? Any ideas?

 

[yukookoo]

my 6mo does the same thing when teething. Then I cant figure out is it teething is it gas? She wakes up every 20 - 60 min all night long cries then farts and then rubs her eyes and looks tired/ Poor thing I cant imagine having gas so bad that it wakes you up <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/greensad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="greensad"><br><br>
I think it must have to do with swallowing a lot of air when sucking on everything in site or putting everything in her mouth? Maybe the spit swallowing too

 

[RTT]

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This makes sense. I've been going nuts trying to figure out if it's something I'm eating but this gas issue has really just been going on since she's been teething.

 

[EricaRain]

Definitely could be it. I used to think mine had gas since he'd wake up every hour some nights and be passing wind, but I think now he was crying so much for tummy pain/upset that he gulped a lot of air into his stomach and therefore had to pass it out. Have you tried gripe water or gas drops? We still end up using the gripe water sometimes.