Nursing methods for 20-day-old baby spitting up milk

Nowadays, every family has only one child, who is praised as the apple of the eye. Some parents found that their 20-day-old baby spit up milk while feeding. This is obviously not acceptable. The parents feel very distressed when seeing this. This is definitely not a solution. Parents are very eager to know what methods are available for care, so let’s ask professionals to explain them to everyone. I hope that after reading the following content, everyone will have a certain understanding of this issue.

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, the amount of milk you feed each time should be reduced to half of the usual amount.

When the baby recovers and wants to breastfeed again, we can feed him some more 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.

The correct way to burp your baby

The best way to prevent spitting up is to burp your baby. After the child is 3 to 4 months old, not only can he master the sucking technique well, but the contraction function of the cardia has also matured, so the number of spitting up will be significantly reduced. But before that, it is best to burp the baby after each feeding.

Ways to help your child burp:

1. Hold the child upright and pat his back gently.

Holding the baby upright and gently patting his back for more than 5 minutes is the basic method to help the baby burp. If your child still can't burp, you can also try massaging his back with your palms.

2. Support the child's chin and let the child sit up

You can also let your child sit on your lap and pat his back gently. Because when a baby is sitting, the entrance to his stomach is facing upwards, making it easier for him to burp.

3. When you can’t burp

The air inhaled into the stomach is sometimes caught in the milk inhaled before and after. At this time, if the child's upper body is upright, it will help to expel the air in the stomach. Therefore, the mother can hold the child upright, or can raise the child's back so that the upper body remains tilted for about 30 minutes.

When parents find that their 20-day-old baby spit up milk, they can try the above-mentioned burping method. These methods are effective for normal spitting up and burping. After the condition gets better, the baby can drink milk normally, and the parents can rest assured. If you still vomit after trying some of the above methods, you should go to the hospital.