How To Stop Infant Gas Pain... (With I Love You Massage & More) | Dr. Paul feat. DeeDee Hoover LMT

You know what? Let's teach these beautiful people out there on YouTube world that I love you massage. Are you ready? Okay. So with an infant, especially this young, we are starting really low. Yeah, I know. There's some gas down there, huh, buddy? Yeah. So I'm starting super low. This is where the descending colon is. It's super gentle pressure. You'll see a lot of videos. What? Yeah, I got you. There are some videos that we'll see out there and they're called I Love You Massage. The difficult part is with some of them and the way I learned I Love You Massage is that this is the I, this is the L, and this is the U. I know. You know that that's not the right way, don't you? You knew. So the I is actually over here. We're starting with the descending colon. We always want to start low in case like he's got some little tough spots, he's trying to get it out. So we're just going to start with real gentle motions and real tiny. Doc, why don't you come over and help hold the pacifier? Do you mind? Not at all. A really good massage assistant and pacifier holder. Wow, that's a title. Yeah, I went to Dartmouth to learn how to do this. There you go. It's just in case it falls out. Yeah, exactly. So he's trying to release down here. That's what we got going on. So we're assisting it just with real gentleness. Yeah, I got you. I know that pacifier is just not producing. It's just, it's not sweet. So we're just gonna keep up gently. Nothing to swallow. And then the focus is down. So I come up a little bit more and I go down. Come up a little bit more. Oh, I know, sweetie. I feel that. I need to spend a little more time here. But to go over it kind of quickly is we don't ever want to push a bubble or a bowel movement or something that's causing pressure into another area that might be the case too. So we start here and follow the pathway of the colon. So we're just going to work gently down first. And if it's helping, then he won't fuss. If it's too much pressure, he'll fuss a little bit and we stop. So then once we clear this, then we come up a little bit higher. And it's now we're working on the L. Now we're just going to come and just keep that focus all the way around. Okay. And then same thing, like right now for him, this is going to take time because he's still focused here. So you're not ever going to go past that. When he starts to fuss as you come up higher, you go back down low, which is what he was doing. So once we've cleared that whole way, then we would come over here and then we would finish with the whole thing. But right now, yeah, yeah, I got you. The focus needs to be down here. That's helping him so it doesn't seem so tight. You look, you look concerned, buddy. You literally did exactly what you were saying not to do, where it was like the I love you would start on the right and go down to the left. Yeah. And all I can say is everybody's different. Maybe, maybe that's why they did it that way. It didn't work for mine. And when people come in and say, oh, don't do the, I love you massage. I've done the, I love you massage DD. And it doesn't work. And I'll ask, well, show me how you did it. And then I'll show this and then they'll say, oh, that worked for my baby. So that's the thing is just listen to your baby. And right now this is working for him. Just gently kind of working with it. And you can kind of feel sometimes it's, especially when they're this tiny, you'll feel like a little bubble. It's like, oh, what is that? And then after you massage that bubble out, right. And that's why we want to kind of relax and do those relaxing things. Cause he is it's, it's, he's got some stuff to come out. It's very, very fun. You have big bowel movements. You have a good supply. And so there's a lot moving through the intestines and think about it in the womb, babies are fed from the umbilical cord. And so their intestinal tract is not doing anything. And then they're born and all of a sudden disconnect from mama's umbilical cord. And here's your milk, right? If you've got a large supply, that natural peristalsis, that just the wave like motion that's supposed to take it from your mouth all the way through isn't always working quite right. So things back up, which is why, uh, the new, new parent dance can help. You know, you, you just walk the floor, right? Take turns. Yep. Um, and then this sort of massage is, is it can be really helpful for some, for some babies. Just that gentle movement, but that direction. I'm going to actually just to sort of help him. So show you a couple other things that can help when he's having that. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. So I'm still now focused. I'm on the left here and putting it just in gentle pressure still, but kind of allowing that, that gravity, that weight. And this is another position that doing the newborn, what'd you call it? New daddy dance, new parent dance, um, sort of helps, but, and changing positions. If you try that other one and that's not working and he starts to fuss, then try this. If this doesn't work, then you try something else. Um, sometimes that just switching they are their whole central nervous system. It's all going on. And sometimes moving forward. Yeah, I know from parasympathetic to sympathetic can be tough. And the most, as much as you can know, he's got that tension, that torticalis going on, holding him more sideways like this versus having him on you. So his head's forced to turn one way. Um, if you can get him laying them on you and you can get him to turn his head the other way, that's great. Cause that's opening that up, but we don't want to strain. We want to encourage and massage and soften that area, but we don't want to strain. So the other thing that helps the colon a little bit and release is to just pull the legs up a little bit and help provide a little bit of pressure. One thing that I've seen a lot of, and again, every baby is different, but I'll see people do the bicycle back and forth. We don't want to do that. I would not suggest you can do whatever you want people, but I wouldn't suggest again, not a doctor just here with some information about what's worked for me and babies I've worked on. Um, you want to work with both because if you're going back and forth, then you're actually pulling on another area that could have a lot of pressure while you're pushing on another. So now you're pushing up and you're pulling here. You could be backing it back up is my thought. I don't know. I'm just a massage therapist. Everybody I think when they get a little older, it's different, but we have to be real careful with the fact that not everything is completely developed like the digestive system. What do you think doc? So you're going to get so much advice. This is true for breastfeeding and it's true for a fussy baby and grandma's always right. So grandma's out there, you know, you're always right. Um, you know, the grandma, the grandma might have raised four or five or 10 children, so they have to know, right? But the funny thing is each kid's different. So try things as long as they're not dangerous. If it works, great. If it doesn't, then you find Didi.