Spitting milk is still relatively common during lactation, mainly because the baby's stomach has not matured, so pay special attention to the feeding posture when feeding, do not let the baby eat too urgently, burping is also a better way to relieve the baby's spitting up, but burp also to master the strength and timing, let's understand how to do the baby always spit milk.
Why do babies spit up milk frequently? The concubine should have a clear idea
1. Physiological development characteristics
As we all know, the gastrointestinal function of newborns is not very fully developed, and the stomach capacity of small babies is small and less food can be stored. And the baby's stomach entrance is relatively loose, if when feeding, because of eating fast or crying, will inhale a lot of air at the same time, so that the stomach pressure rises. When this air enters the baby's stomach, it is easy to cause the milk in the stomach to flow back to the esophagus, and bring out some milk from the stomach, resulting in spitting up.
2. Improper feeding
In fact, improper feeding posture, feeding too fast, too much milk, etc. will cause a burden on the baby's stomach and easily lead to spitting up. And the spitting up caused by the above situation is relatively normal, the baby will happen several times a day, as long as the baby's weight gain and mental state is normal, there is no big problem, and the confinement sister-in-law does not need to worry too much.
3. Pathological spitting up
If the baby has abnormalities when spitting up milk, such as painful expression, loud crying, severe coughing, etc., the confinement sister-in-law has to consider whether this is vomiting due to illness. More importantly, if the baby's vomit is green or red liquid, or projectile vomiting, then parents should not deal with it without authorization, and must immediately take the baby to the doctor. It can be seen that if the baby only occasionally vomits milk and there is no abnormal performance, it is a normal physiological situation. After understanding the reasons for spitting up milk, the confinement sister-in-law can carefully observe the baby's state when feeding the baby to avoid spitting up milk to the greatest extent.
What should I do if my baby always spits up?
1. The confinement sister-in-law can take some measures, such as picking up the baby to breastfeed, so that her body is in a 45-degree tilt; When feeding, let the baby's mouth cover the entire nipple without leaving gaps; Don't be too quick or fast when feeding, and let the baby rest for a while in between; After feeding, help your baby burp in time.
2. However, there are some situations that need to be paid attention to, such as green bile, red blood in the baby's vomit, convulsions, paralysis of the whole body, special smell of urine, developmental delay, vomiting milk is particularly violent, etc., indicating that there may be other problems.
3. If the baby's weight gain is abnormal, there is a lot of difference with babies of the same age, easy to be irritable, blood in the stool, indicating that there may be serious complications, and it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.