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Yeah i would try waiting the 4 hours, and see if that helps, unfortunatly the wind can stay down a while even when they burp after feeding, you just have to re wind them if nec. As for the swaddling, we never really did it, as my lo kept trying to get her arms out all the time so we didn't bother, so i'd say stop doing it when your ready hun, if she creates swaddler her back up and try again in a week or so. Good luck hun xxxx

try keeping her to the four hours. if you can. offer some coll boiled water if she is hungry before then. witht he saddling i stopped this at 6weeks....as i was afraid of her gettin 2 used to it and too intune with whats going on.

i reduded the saddling step by step at night. firstly swaddling to she was semi asleep...then saddling as in for a cuddle time beside her cot and then kept swaddle blanket on with her awake straight into cot/vrib or basket.
also keep things very calm and peaceful. stay with her until she goes a sleep then eventually you get to putting her straight into cot awake ad you out the door.
it is a long process but i found routine essential. bath bottle bed. also replaced the swaddling with a dreamshow displaying and sounding lullaby tunes....that really helped too..
but hang in there. start now reduces her dependency now on her gettin to sleep. its a long process but worth workin at now step by step.

hope this helps. fiona and not so much a baby anymore aoide LOL xx

sorry aoife not aoide!!!

Had an up and down day. Jessica wasn't feeding well this morning and i was panicking about her sleeping a lot. Phoned NHS24 and they said it didn't sound like there was anything wrong. Phoned Cow and Gate helpline too (they are really helpful) and they said much the same. I still wasn't happy. However, she had a good feed at lunchtime, and seems to be going just three hours (ish) between feeds. After she fed, I felt like doing a lap of honour round the living room. I hope things are sorting themselves out now. She was three weeks early, so in reality she would be less than a week old, so I think I am panicking too much. Thanks for all your posts though girls, Love Debz

Another crap day. She seems to just want less and less. Phoned doctor and she said she must be getting enough, and some babies take more in ten minutes than some do in an hour. Feeling very upset and emotionally exhausted. Jessica will be weighed tomorrow and I don't know what I'll do if she hasn't put on enough. Hoping for a better day, but i said that yesterday. Going to try putting her 'to bed' after the previous feed that we normally do tonight, see if that helps keep her a bit more awake during the day and feed better. Here's hoping.

Another crap day. She seems to just want less and less. Phoned doctor and she said she must be getting enough, and some babies take more in ten minutes than some do in an hour. Feeling very upset and emotionally exhausted. Jessica will be weighed tomorrow and I don't know what I'll do if she hasn't put on enough. Hoping for a better day, but i said that yesterday. Going to try putting her 'to bed' after the previous feed that we normally do tonight, see if that helps keep her a bit more awake during the day and feed better. Here's hoping.

hi sounds like your having a rough time and completely smpathises with you. what milk are you using? babies go through so many phases its unreal. one min its wind then its teething the list is endless....

have you tried any colic drops like colief which u can get on precription which i recommend but also infacol i know is very good. also perhaps the milk you are using is not best suited for your baby...have you tried comfort 1 from c+g;

also i found making up bottles fresh helps them keep with there mood ...well thats what my we ones is at the mo..and that does help too.

what about speaking to your hv about this and get some advice...also i know the c+g live chat and helpline are fantastic.
hope you get this sorted...as a stressed baby = a stressed mummy and neither is good for you.
good luck. fiona and aoife

Hi Fiona. I'm actually breastfeeding, so milk is definitely best suited to my baby!! Been a bit of a better day in some ways. Jessica was weighed and she has put on such a good amount of weight that she's almost gone up a centile on her chart. Feeding was not great this morning but has improved. Her wind has not. She will not let me wind her - she fights against it. I know at nearly four weeks she should not be able to lift her head but she is and struggling against me! Seems that pretty much whenever she is awake she is miserable. That makes me then wonder if she has fed enough.Change of bedtime routine went quite well, although she isn't settling as quickly as she was. Is sleeping for longer though. I know this stage won't last for ever but it feels like it just now! Mind you, things were worse with my son, and he's now 4 years old and fine and healthy.