Baby retching while feeding

Many mothers will find that their children will vomit milk when they are breastfeeding during their growth process. This makes parents very worried. If the baby cannot drink milk, the growth process will be affected. Why does the baby have symptoms of vomiting milk? Our parents must be clear about this and avoid such situations. Now let’s take a look at the explanation given by the experts.

I don’t know if this baby has been vomiting milk since childhood. If it is always like this, it may be that the baby swallowed air while feeding, such as swallowing air due to incorrect nipple sucking. The capacity of a baby's stomach is not large. If the gas wants to come out, the milk on top of the gas must be brought out, so it is easy for the baby to vomit. This is quite common. It is also possible that the baby is impatient and cries loudly before feeding, which may also make him swallow a lot of air.

In addition, the baby's ejection muscles may not be well developed, and there is a loose ejection gate phenomenon, so the milk can be easily regurgitated after feeding, which will cause spitting out in small sips instead of large gulps, as mentioned above for the first reason. The vomiting condition improved as I got older. If your baby is still spitting up milk, but only occasionally for a few days, it will not have much impact. If the vomiting occurs frequently and the baby's growth and development is affected, I suggest you go to the surgery department. Because there are many surgical diseases that can cause babies to vomit.

If there is gas in the stomach, hold the baby upright. For children with loose stomach, hold the baby for a while longer after feeding, hold him for 15 to 30 minutes. When putting the baby down, lie on the right side, because the shape of the stomach is from left to right, and the milk goes down from left to right with gravity. You can lift the upper body slightly. For example, put a back cushion and a pillow at the back. That will be much better.

: 0~1 years old is the baby's lip sensitivity period, and the baby explores the world through his lips. Therefore, babies of this age group tend to put everything they can get into their mouths to bite, gnaw and chew. Providing food of appropriate hardness according to their age can meet this need of babies and also avoid excessive external force causing deformities of teeth or jawbone development.

In addition, babies aged 0 to 1 years old have an underdeveloped digestive system and a more sensitive pharynx, making them more prone to retching or vomiting. This phenomenon will gradually improve and disappear as the swallowing and chewing movements become more coordinated. Then start adding sticky foods such as rice porridge at 4 to 6 months, and start adding coarse granular foods at 7 to 8 months. It is very necessary to patiently and repeatedly teach the baby to chew and swallow. Good swallowing and chewing are also very important for the development of teeth and cheek muscles, which will promote the baby's language development. Of course, if your baby's dry retching phenomenon only occurs in the past two days, you should also consider the factor of disease. For example, children may also experience dry retching when they have gastrointestinal colds or gastroenteritis. The diagnosis can be made based on other accompanying symptoms. It is best to take your baby to the hospital's pediatric department as soon as possible.

If the baby often has symptoms of dry heaving, our parents should pay attention to it. Parents should first observe the baby to see if the baby has drunk too much milk in the past few days. If it is not the case, we'd better take the baby to the hospital for relevant examinations as soon as possible. Never take it lightly. Find out the cause of the baby's dry retching as soon as possible and let the baby grow up happily.