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Once again trying to catch up on posts, so coming in real late on this.

For immediate relief of gas pain, try fennel. Adults can chew the seeds

and suck the juice out. For a baby, make tea. If the baby is nursing and

the moter eats the seeds, the effects will reach the baby through her milk.

That is something to help with the gas, but the gas is just a symptom.

So then it'd be good to sleuth out the cause. Dietary in most cases. Either

eating stuff the body just can't handle or eating things in combinations in

which they do not digest well. But sometimes emotional.

A nursing baby will react to a lot of things in the mother's milk. Not

only what she eats but her emotions affect the milk strongly.

For immediate help, though, our family finds the fennel miraculous. I

once had gas paon so bad that I was down on the floor rolling around. (After

eating a terrible digestive combination in an upscale natural foods

restaurant, because it was pretty much what they had that day that was not

meat. Never again!) Then I remembered fennel and made it out to the

kitchen and chewed a good mouthful. Pain gone in about 5 minutes.

Shivani