Situation 1: Spitting up milk lumps
This is because newborn babies have a very small stomach and it takes about 23 hours to empty even a small amount of milk in the stomach, so it makes sense to feed them on demand. If you feed your baby too often, this may cause your stomach to become full and some of the milk you drank at the last meal will remain in your stomach, and when combined with stomach acid, you may spit out milk.
Actions parents should take.
1. Change the breastfeeding position.
Try to pick up the baby to breastfeed, so that the baby’s body is in a tilt of about 45 degrees. When a mother holds her baby and breastfeeds him, make his head higher and his body lower, which can reduce the symptoms of spitting up. Try not to let your baby drink while lying down when giving him/her formula, it is better to sit or stand. If you are lying down, don’t let your baby lie on his back immediately after feeding, but lie on his side for a while, and then change to lying on his back.
2.Don’t put down the baby immediately after feeding
The gas stays in the stomach and occupies a certain space which is an important factor causing the baby to vomit. After feeding, the mother should hold the baby upright against the chest, lay the head on the adult’s shoulder, gently pat his back, let the air swallowed with the sucking milk be discharged, and after the baby burps, the gas in the stomach is emptied, then put the baby down gently and lie on his side. This will reduce spitting up and reduce the risk of the spit-up milk being inhaled into the respiratory tract.
Scenario 2: Spitting up after eating
After breastfeeding, as the baby’s body moves or is turned (such as when bathing or changing diapers), the air in the baby’s stomach will rise and run out of the trachea, and the baby cannot burp on his own. If too much milk is fed at once, the milk will run out with the air.
Actions parents should take.
1. Don’t feed your baby immediately after crying
If you cry for too long before feeding, you may inhale more air into your stomach during crying, and it will be easier to overflow when feeding. If you help him pat his back and exhaust air before feeding, it will improve.
2.After breastfeeding, avoid turning the baby
Babies mostly lie in the supine position in bed. However, to prevent vomiting after breastfeeding, it is best not to place your baby in the supine position right away, but to let him lie on his back after observing no vomiting. Then try not to turn the baby or give him a bath for half an hour to avoid spitting up.
Situation 3: Spit up milk smells bad
If your baby spits up milk with a sour smell when you add complementary foods, it may be caused by your baby’s indigestion. At this time, your baby’s digestive organs are not yet mature and do not adapt to changes in the quality and quantity of food, so once improper feeding, hot and cold disorders or infections are encountered, it is easy to cause intestinal digestive and absorption disorders and morbidity. Not only does the milk vomited have a sour smell, but also the water drunk will be vomited out.
Actions parents should take.
1, help the baby to regulate the stomach
Should be properly controlled diet, adding supplementary food, each time only one and gradually increase the amount. Feed the baby easily digestible food to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, so that the digestive tract to get some rest. Pay attention to the baby’s warmth so that the imbalance between heat and cold does not cause gastrointestinal discomfort. In addition, in consultation with the doctor, feed the baby some drugs to help digestion.
2.Mother’s diet adjustment
If the baby is breastfed, the new mother should pay attention to the diet is not too fatty, should be light, nutritious and easy to digest food. At the same time should shorten the feeding time, let the baby eat the first half of the breast milk. Because the first half of breast milk has more protein content, easy to digest and nutritious, while the second half has more fat content and is not easy to digest.
Tips: When feeding your baby, in addition to these important points of knowledge, a mother feeding with the correct posture can also greatly reduce the probability of your baby spitting up.