Baby has lots of gas

What can I do to reduce gas for baby? He's on dairy formula and *some*
breastmilk. We were thinking of trying a soy based formula? Does that
sound reasonable?

Some gas is normal. Try Mylicon drops, or Baby's Bliss drops. Bicycle his
legs to help him get it out. Make sure to burp him after each ounce, to get
the gas out. Try Dr. Brown's bottles to reduce the gas.

The first 12 weeks are the hardest for both new baby and new parents. You
can't always fix everything. Babies cry. Their digestive systems are still
immature and growing, and many issues will work themselves out by the time
he is 3 months old.
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What can I do to reduce gas for baby? He's on dairy formula and *some*
breastmilk. We were thinking of trying a soy based formula? Does that
sound reasonable?

On Jun 28, 2:43 pm, "Jamie Clark" wrote:
Some gas is normal. Try Mylicon drops, or Baby's Bliss drops. Bicycle his
legs to help him get it out. Make sure to burp him after each ounce, to get
the gas out. Try Dr. Brown's bottles to reduce the gas.

The first 12 weeks are the hardest for both new baby and new parents. You
can't always fix everything. Babies cry. Their digestive systems are still
immature and growing, and many issues will work themselves out by the time
he is 3 months old.
--

Jamie
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Thank you. I bought some Mylicon drops today.

Jamie's right that it is normal, if you were to truly think it was dairy
related, I'd highly recommend you act now to get baby fully breastfed
and mum off dairy - a reasonably high number of babies who have issues
with dairy, then turn out to have issues with soy and you end up with
needing to buy hypoallergenic formula, which is ridiculously expensive
and some babies don't even thrive on that. It's impossible to say what
the chances are of it being dairy related, there are several other
things to try though, the drops, as Jamie mentioned, taking care of
positioning, both during feeding to ensure he doesn't take in air as
well as milk and afterwards to encourage everything downwards. There is
also the actual act of giving baby a good burp, there are various
techniques to do it (ask anyone older than about 60, when it really was
the trend to burp baby fully after each and every feed). There is also
massage, again, there is a technique to it, don't quote me on this, but
it's basically rubbing the tummy clockwise.

Cheers
Anne