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New moms hit the road, taking their babies for the first time, and having a basket of problems every day. Especially in the stage of the baby's birth, there will be a variety of problems, some problems on the adult may be abnormal, so the novice mother will be more worried, afraid of affecting the baby's health, do not understand always want to take the baby to the hospital.
In fact, for newborn babies, some "seemingly abnormal" phenomena are normal, but in daily life, if you want to avoid it, you must do a good job of nursing and prevention.
Next, let's talk about a few of the phenomena that babies are prone to in the first month after giving birth, and teach new mothers how to deal with them correctly at home.
The first phenomenon: the baby burps
After the baby was born, the mothers found a problem: babies especially love to burp.
Hiccups after breastfeeding, hiccups when you get cold, hiccups after crying... Sometimes hiccup several times a day, as a new mother, you can't help but worry, is the baby sick, do you want to go to the hospital?
In fact, this is a normal phenomenon.
The reason why I love hiccups is mainly related to the "immature development of the newborn nervous system", and then there are external triggers, such as the following.
Incorrect feeding posture: babies who eat breast milk, the mother feeding posture is incorrect; babies who drink formula milk, the way of milking and feeding is not correct, let the baby eat too much air.
Improper feeding: when the milk is too cold, it is easy to let the gastric mucosa be coldly stimulated, causing the diaphragm to spasm and hiccup; and eating too fast, crying and feeding, etc., it is easy for the baby to eat too much air and burp at the same time.
Abdominal cold: If the baby wears too little cover, let the small stomach cold, the diaphragm will also be affected, easy to burp.
So, when your baby burps, what is the right thing to do?
If the baby burps while breastfeeding, pause feeding first, gently hold the baby upright, gently pat the back with the palm of your hand, or lightly touch the sole of the baby's foot to help relieve the diaphragm spasm.
If you don't burp while breastfeeding, pick up your baby and pat it on the back, or let your baby lie on the adult for a while.
In addition, the triggers mentioned above should be avoided and help to reduce the appearance of burps in babies.
Jing Mom reminds: If it is particularly frequent hiccups, self-care still does not work, you should pay more attention, if necessary, take the baby to the hospital.
The second phenomenon: the baby spits up
In addition to hiccups, babies sometimes spit up milk, and some babies even vomit more seriously.
This is also a normal phenomenon, different babies, the degree of spitting up is different, the duration is different, but most of them are normal physiological spitting.
The appearance of spitting up milk in the baby is also related to the incomplete development of the newborn's gastrointestinal tract.
As shown in the figure below, the stomach of a newborn baby is different from that of an adult, it is horizontal, and the upper mouth is loose and tight, so that it is easy to let the milk that the baby eats flow out, especially when eating more and eating fast.
However, mothers often say that spitting up milk, it may be overflowing milk or it may be spitting up milk, which are two different situations.
Milk spillage is the milk that comes out of the corner of the mouth, and the spitting up is somewhat "scary", it is a large mouth of vomiting, even squirting, or squirting out of the nose.
In addition to being able to distinguish between new mothers, they must also learn to deal with it correctly and prevent the danger of choking milk.
In order to reduce spitting up, you can usually do this:
When feeding, do not let the baby eat too much, too fast, eat too fast is easy to eat too much air and spit up, eat too much is easy to "overflow". You can try feeding more than a few times, and don't eat too much each time.
Do not give the baby cold milk, whether it is milked or brewed formula, do not drink too cold, otherwise it is easy to cause the baby to spit up.
Burping after each feeding and discharging the air from eating it through hiccups is also helpful in preventing spitting up.
The third phenomenon: always startling at first glance
Newborn babies, sometimes sleep will appear "like being frightened", which is a normal phenomenon of newborns, is a primitive reflex, called "startled reflex", also known as "hug reflex".
This is due to the infant's nervous system immature development and the reflex, generally until the baby 3-4 months will disappear automatically; if this situation occurs particularly frequently or does not disappear after 4 months, it is best to take the baby to see a doctor.
Some elderly people in the family talk about superstition, may say that the baby is frightened, or lost his soul, etc., and even uses some superstitious methods to deal with it.
In fact, this phenomenon does not need to be dealt with, if you feel that the baby is always because of the jumping reflex and can not sleep steadily, you can try to do this:
Wrap your baby in swaddles, or tuck the corners of the quilt a little tighter, or buy a newborn anti-shock sleeping bag and wear it to sleep.
The baby's sleeping environment should be kept quiet as much as possible, avoiding noise, too harsh light, heavy taste, etc., to reduce irritation.
When you find that your baby has a startled reflex during sleep, you can tap your baby and fall asleep again after a while.
The first time to be a mother, the first time to raise a baby, almost every day there will be a variety of parenting problems, that can learn more parenting knowledge in advance, or while taking the baby while learning, so that you can reduce the pit, so that the baby does not suffer.
In the previous situations, did your baby ever appear, and how did you deal with it at that time? Welcome to share your parenting experience with new parents.