What to do if your baby burps after feeding

Hiccups are actually a very normal phenomenon, but when they happen to different people, the degree of attention they take varies. When it happens to a baby, it will attract too much attention from the mother. When a baby burps after feeding, mothers will worry whether the baby has eaten too much and whether it will cause bloating. In fact, such worries are unnecessary. Let’s take a look together next!

1. Baby hiccups are mostly caused by three reasons. The first is improper care, exogenous wind and cold, and the reverse flow of cold and hot air, as the saying goes, "eating cold wind" induces hiccups; the second is improper diet, such as excessive diet, indigestion, or excessive consumption of raw and cold milk, excessive use of cold medicines, which cause qi stagnation, weakened spleen and stomach function, and abnormal qi movement, which causes stomach qi to reverse and cause hiccups; the third is eating too quickly or eating after crying, and choking can also induce hiccups.

2. There are several clever ways to relieve hiccups in infants and young children:

1. When a baby hiccups, first pick up the baby, pat its back gently, and feed it some hot water.

2. Pick up the baby and gently tickle the baby's mouth or ears with the index finger of one hand. Generally, the hiccups will disappear naturally when the baby starts crying. Because the nerves around the mouth are more sensitive, tickling can relax the nerves and the hiccups will disappear.

3. Pick up the baby and stimulate the soles of his feet to make him cry, thus ending the sudden contraction of the diaphragm.

4. Do not feed your baby when he is too hungry or crying very hard, which is also one of the measures to prevent your baby from hiccups.

Therefore, if your baby burps after feeding, don't panic. Just follow the amplification method explained above to easily solve this problem. In addition, hiccups are actually a very normal phenomenon no matter what age group you are in. Hiccups prove that a person is truly healthy and are a normal life activity.