Well, unless your son can manage to produce 600 liters a DAY, I don’t think you have much to worry about.
That’s ONE cow. And a LOT of gas.

This is probably a matter for a pediatrician to look at first thing Monday morning, David. I hope Kim is not visibly ill.
I gather it’s been going on for some time. If it continues, my first guess would be some difficulty with digesting milk or certain sugars in larger quantities than before.
I hope it’s nothing serious and gets figured out quickly. My best wishes, David.

On a serious note, yes I’d check with the pediatrictian.
On a side note, and as a fellow parent, thank you for the belly laugh this morning And for pity sake, don’t opent he window and let all that gas out into the atmosphere, lol.

Okay, is it wrong to giggle at this post? I am so sorry if the answer is yes, because I can’t help it. If I were a better person, perhaps, I’d see the gravity in the cow situation (and your home situation – adding hot air to any indoor enclosure in July is a problem to be reckoned with) and spend the rest of the morning worrying about it.
And yet…the fact that part of our global warming problem is cow farts makes me see how helpless we are to do anything but pray for God’s guidance when problems arise. If Solomon were still alive, perhaps he’d update the wisdom books to include reminders to this effect…

Belly laughs indeed!
David, I am the proud parent of two kids (four years and 10 mos. respectively) and while I occasionally get a whiff of noxious fumes, I must say that it sounds like you are getting the worst of it.
On the other hand – my 10-month-old gives us a terrible time with getting up in the middle of the night. So, my advice is to put a clothes-pin on your nose and be thankful that you get consistent sleep!

I have to post this anonymously.
According to the gastrointestinal specialist who did my first colonscopy, excess flatulence can be caused by two things – swallowing too much air (maybe through hyperventilating?) or not digesting food properly. It can also be a symptom of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which I have.
I am a middle-aged (around 50) woman and have had this problem for a few years. Loud, frequent, no doubt, smelly. It’s only funny for a short time, then it gets really aggravating, since it requires frequent trips to the restroom so as not to be antisocial. I agree that you should see a pediatrician.

Well, stop feeding him the bowls of hot chili and peppers, and the problem should clear right up. Oh, and the warm room problem…light a match.
Seriously..If jr. is putting on weight and keeping food down and developing normally then it is what it is. My oldest was born hungry. He’d pound down a bottle and tons of air, spit it all up (usually on me), then start screaming for another bottle. Not quite a normal feeding pattern. He’s 17 now, about 210 pounds, and hopes to start on his HS football team this fall, so it seems to have worked out okay.
Cheers…Phil

Let everything that hath breath, praise the Lord!

Because she was my fourth baby, and I had let up a great deal on the “perfect diet”, I drank a cup of coffee in the just a couple of hours before I went into a very hard and short labor with my daughter. Later on, when we were back in our room for the night I was cuddling and nursing her. Every few minutes, I would smell the most HORRIBLE, NOXIOUS flatulence–which, since it wasn’t me, I automatically blamed on the other mother in the next bed. I kept getting fresh whiffs every so often until I realized by pulling her diaper open that it was coming out of my daughters perfect little pink butt!!! (The nurse and I had a good laugh, and she confirmed that the coffee could have stimulated her digestive tract.)

By the way, babies do need a little time to develop the enzymes and colonize their intestinal tract with the kinds of bacteria that help them digest their food–just be patient!!!

cnucklehead – howling