How much newborn normal breathing a minute

Newborns breathe faster than both older children and adults. Generally, newborns breathe at a rate of about 40 times per minute when they are quiet. If a newborn baby breathes more than 60 times per minute, it is called tachypnea and is often caused by respiratory or other systemic diseases. Newborn baby’s breathing is mainly abdominal breathing, that is, the mother can see the baby breathing when the stomach is moving, when the newborn baby just after eating milk or after crying, the breathing rate will also increase, this is a physiological increase, there is no problem. When the baby has a fever, the respiratory rate will also increase. So quietly, if the mother found that the baby’s breathing rate increased significantly, most cases are pathological, must pay attention to, need to take the baby to the hospital in time to check clearly.