What is the matter with newborn babies asking for milk?

To let milk out means to spit it out. Mothers must know that many babies will spit up milk while drinking milk, or after drinking milk. Vomiting may be caused by the baby catching a cold, or some babies simply cannot drink milk. This also makes many mothers very worried. So everyone must be wondering what is going on with newborn babies asking for milk? Next, follow the editor to learn about the reasons why newborns spit up!

【1】 Reasons for babies spitting up milk

Spitting up is a common phenomenon in infants. There are two reasons for this: one is that it is a symptom of systemic or gastrointestinal disease; the other is that the anatomical and physiological characteristics of the infant's gastrointestinal tract make vomiting prone to occur. Generally speaking, vomiting caused by the second reason is more common.

The stomach of a newborn baby, viewed from the front, is lying horizontally and is in an unstable state, while the cardia (the entrance to the stomach) is relatively loose. That is to say, when adults eat, after food enters the stomach, the cardia will contract to prevent food from flowing back into the esophagus; but because the cardia of infants' stomach cannot contract well, the milk that enters the stomach can flow back into the esophagus more easily. In addition, compared with adults, the larynx of newborns is higher, and their way of sucking the nipple is clumsy, which makes it easy for air to be inhaled into the stomach along with the milk when feeding. Therefore, when the child burps or shakes his body, the milk he eats is more likely to be spit out.

【II】 What to do if your newborn spits up milk

1. Keep your upper body elevated

If vomitus enters the trachea, it can cause suffocation. Therefore, when letting your child lie down, it is best to put a bath towel under the child's body and keep the upper body elevated. If the baby spit up while lying down, we can turn the baby's face to one side.

2. After spitting up, pay more attention to the child's condition. When the child is lying down, raise the child's head or simply hold the child upright. After spitting up, the baby may look unhappy, but it is fine as long as he recovers later. In addition, you can give your child some water as appropriate depending on the situation.

3. Rehydrate within 30 minutes after vomiting

If you give your child water right after he or she spits up, it may cause vomiting again. Therefore, it is best to try to feed your child some plain water a little bit at a time with a spoon about 30 minutes after vomiting.

4. After spitting up milk, the amount of milk fed each time should be reduced to half of the usual amount. When the baby recovers and wants to breastfeed again, we can feed the baby some milk. However, the amount of milk each time should be reduced to about half of the usual amount, but the number of feedings can be increased. During the period of continuous vomiting, we can only feed the baby milk and not other foods, including complementary foods.