My step daughter has just had a baby,and as it is nearly 8 yrs since my last baby I was wondering whether burping is still encouraged as she doesnt burp him.I know things have changed since my kids were babies as now they say put bubs on their back for sleeping where as it was on their side for mine.She did parenting classes so I would have thought they would teach burping but then another friend said it depends on the midwife as some now dont encourage it.Is this right or should I have told her she need to burp bub after feeds.she is breast feeding.
mine needs burping, but as he's getting older - now 6 weeks - he doesn't need it so much and often brings it up by himself now. what doesn't come out one end ends up coming out the other. Just how much is left in there determines how grizzly he gets.
Burping only encourages getting rid of wind. It doesn't always work and I have been told that it only needs to be done for a couple of minutes after a feed. No burp in that time, most likely, very little wind.
I think it depends on the baby. Some babies are more "windy" than others. I don't think there are (or need to be) any hard and fast rules about how much and how often to burp your baby during feeds. But generally, I found that Joel liked to be upright after a feed. In effect, he needed to be given the opportunity to burp just in case it was necessary.
It's not something that needs to be over-engineered and I don't think it would be prudent to make a big deal out of it. Let your step-daughter make up her own mind. As a new mother (and a young one at that), she is probably getting well-meaning advice from everyone! Ultimately, it's whatever works for her and her baby.
I have a 6month old who needs to be burped frequently. She doesn't always burp, but if I don't try to burp her after every feed she frequently wakes up during her nap screaming her lungs out in pain, once burped she then settles back into her nap. The way I see it is there's no harm in trying to burp them, but if you don't you could cop an earful of screaming.
My bub is 11 weeks old and breastfed, i burp him after each feed but if he doesn't bring up any wind in about 30 seconds or so i don't worry about it, he is pretty good at farting it out anyway...lol... and will often burp when i hold him in an upright position after he has been laying on his back.
I think its definately something that you should bring up with her. Even if you just phrase it the way you did in the question by saying it has been awhile etc. I remember being told that a breast fed baby doesnt need burping by a midwife at the hospital, needless to say that turned out WRONG, in a very loud painfull way as well.
Its hard with your first, you get so much conflicting information, and its easy to belive what the midwives tell you as gospel, after all you have to assume that they know best.
Just be gentle, I know I didnt take too kindly when my MIL kept telling me to do things differently, the difference is she cant be subtle and everything came out as "You are doing it wrong, do it like this........"
i know when i was at the hospital i'd get one lot of advice from one midwife and then different advice on the same topic from another widwife, which makes it all confusing when you'rehaving your first baby.
i was told i didn't have to burp from one, and to alwasy burp from another. it really depends on you and your bub. for mine i needed to burp him everytime as he'd be in pain from the wind afterwards. some babies seem to be perfectly fine not being burped or are very adept at burping themselves.
if you do burp them and they still have troubles try gripe water, or if the colic is REALLY bad try infacol or colic releif from BRAUER (spelling?)
if you burp them and nothing happens, then that's fine too. i'd only encourage her to burp if it looks like the bub is suffering from the wind, suggest trying to burp to see if it alleviates the problem.
Burping is most definitely necessary! If bottle feeding, I've learned from a prenatal class to burp every 2 oz or half way through the bottle. And when breastfeeding, I was taught to burp before switching to the other breast.
I found that the amount of spit up depends on how well they burp.
Hi, When my children where babies. If i didn't burp them they would Vomit as my children are very windy children. Even still today. They would gather a lot of pain in there stomach and cry and be unsettled until it came out. The best way i found or helping them with this was by giving around 5 mil of water, dribled into babies mouth. Yes babies also get thristy. As they are only learning to suck while they are young they have a lot of trouble swollowing water and usually end up coughing on it. So please be sure to dribble it. That is if you don't want baby playing up for hours after a feeding. Here is a link with a little more helpful advice http://www.minti.com/questions-and-answers/discussion/446924/burping-bub/
Since I had my son 16y so much has changed so I went in to panic mode whan I had hannah 12m ago. I was told much the same no burping put them on there back.
I got home and I put hannah on her side as she prefered this position, and with burping if I didnt burp she would cramp up in pain. So my advice would be to encourage her to burp bubs for his/her own comfort.
This is my experience...When i had bub i asked one of the midwives if i needed to burp her .. she said no they dont need to be, so for that whole day (and she fed ALOT that day) i didnt feed her.......BIIIIIIG MISTAKE... she screamed and screamed and screamed that night... until she pooed and pooed it all out....
I then asked an older midwife and she said definately try and burp her after every feed.. also health nurse said burp her but if she doesnt burp everytime thats ok..itll just come out the other end...(fart it out or poo)...
So really i think everyone has a different opinion..and maybe every baby handles it differently? not sure?
l think the same way every baby must handle it different.....with Dean if we dont get all the wind out he vomits everything up......my health nurse told me to have infants friend in case he is being stubborn......l burp him after every feed.
Hi, its really up to your step daughter if she wants to burp her bubs or not.
l had my baby 3 weeks ago and was encouraged to burb him from all the midwives......l did find out the hard way if we didnt get most of the wind out him he would vomit everything up and l mean everything.
l would say its better to burp the baby just to help get some wind out and plus they will not have the discomfort in the belly, rolling eyes etc. If bubs still stubbon there are products out there to help like infants friend or gripe water.
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