Every new mom has the feeling of being a muddlehead, whether it’s a seasoned expert or a parenting guru, as soon as they become a mom they are guaranteed to be dumbfounded. Especially when the baby’s mouthful of hot milk gushes out, a million different scenarios flash through your mind: what if you choke on your lungs? What if he can’t breathe? If she spits up so much, she won’t be hungry again, right? I’ve only thrown up so much, am I not breastfeeding enough?
I. Why does the baby spit up milk?
1. Vomiting is a sign that your baby is sick
If your baby spits up and loses weight dramatically, or coughs while spitting up, or vomit is brown or green, or jets up to 70-80 cm away, you should be careful, it may be a symptom of systemic or gastrointestinal disease.
2.Physiological vomiting
As the baby’s cardia between the esophagus and the stomach is not yet mature, the residual mucosa in the body has to be discharged and causes vomiting.
3.Baby eats too much
Babies may eat too much and lie down immediately after eating milk, which may also lead to vomiting.
4. Not choosing the right pacifier
Babies with small pacifiers can easily inhale air, while babies with large pacifiers can easily choke, both of which may cause spitting up. Therefore, you should always change the size of the pacifier according to the baby’s mouth shape.
What is the difference between spitting up and vomiting?
There is a difference between true vomiting and vomiting. Vomiting is when the contents of the stomach are forcibly “squeezed” from the stomach into the esophagus and spit out through the mouth. Vomiting, on the other hand, is simply a slight reflux of stomach contents into the mouth, often accompanied by burping. The biggest difference between vomiting and spitting up is that the baby will show signs of discomfort when vomiting, such as crying and restlessness.
The correct feeding procedure for babies who often vomit is
Step 1: If you eat milk just in time for diaper changing, make sure to change the diaper first and then feed your baby. Because after the baby has eaten and drunk enough, the baby’s tummy will be bulging, being turned left and right by the mother, and being picked up by the legs to pad the diaper, it is strange that the baby does not spit up milk! Similarly, massage, touch and bathing should be arranged before breastfeeding to prevent your baby from flipping too much and causing milk spillage.
Step 2: Before breastfeeding, mama must check whether the baby’s nasal passages are clear. If your baby’s nose and mouth are blocked during the process of breastfeeding, your baby will suffocate. Especially you can’t feed your baby after he/she cries out!
Step three.
Breastfeeding: The correct breastfeeding position for a mama should be sitting up and holding the baby to breastfeed, because holding the baby in your arms with the body tilted makes it easier for milk to flow into the small intestine and make the stomach partially empty. However, if you are lying down to feed your baby, the slightest shaking of the milk will trigger spitting up from the esophagus.
Bottle feeding: Feed your baby after the milk has filled the teat. The back of the bottle should be slightly higher than the front when feeding, so that the milk always fills the front of the bottle and never leaves air.
Step 4: Wait for your baby to burp every 5 minutes after feeding. This will help your baby to eat and stop air from gathering in your baby’s digestive tract and causing spitting up.
Step 5: To reduce vomiting, try to hold the baby vertically for 20-30 minutes after feeding. If the mother is tired of holding her arms, she can also use a front carrier, a back carrier, a cradle or use a baby chair, and then let the baby lie flat in bed after digestion.
Four, what to pay attention to when breastfeeding mama
1. You can let your baby drink some plain water 30 minutes after breastfeeding. After your baby vomits, you can’t give him water immediately, as this will cause secondary vomiting. Therefore, it is best to try to feed your baby some plain water with a spoon a little bit about 30 minutes after your baby vomits.
2, 4 hours to feed once, can not be greedy to eat Oh. Breast milk is generally digested in the stomach within 2.5-3 hours, and milk powder within 3.5-4 hours, so it is reasonable to feed your baby once every 3-4 hours or so. If mama feeds too often, it will cause stomach fullness and even vomiting.
3. After spitting up, reduce the number of feedings to half of the usual amount. After your baby vomits, the amount of milk to be fed again should be reduced to about half of the usual amount, and the number of feedings can be increased.
4.During the period of continuous vomiting, you can only feed your baby milk, but not other foods, including complementary foods.
5.Infant vomiting will generally last until six months, and some babies will continue until they are about one year old. “Not only that, the baby will also spit up all the clothes and sheets, some of them are too troublesome to clean and replace, the milk stains left around the baby will also emit a sour smell, and the baby will smell the second vomiting. Therefore, spitting up is a necessary stage of baby’s growth, so mothers can’t be lazy when helping their babies to escape from the difficulties!
V. Emergency treatment for vomiting
Because the opening of the esophagus and the opening of the trachea are connected in the throat, the most fearful thing about spitting up is that when the milk suddenly reverses from the esophagus to the throat, it will enter the trachea by mistake when you breathe in, which is called choking.
1.Side to side
If vomiting occurs when lying down: quickly turn the baby’s face to the side to avoid spitting up due to gravity and backward into the throat and trachea. Use handkerchiefs, towels rolled in fingers to reach into the mouth and even throat, the vomit, overflowing milk food Ontario and quickly clean out, to keep the airway smooth, so as not to obstruct breathing.
2.Pat on the back
If you find that your baby is holding his breath and not breathing or his face has turned dark, it means that the vomit may have entered the trachea. Immediately make him lie prone on the lap of an adult or on the bed and pat him on the back four to five times so that he can cough out.
3. Pinch the sole of the foot
If these steps are done, but the baby still does not respond, immediately stimulate the sole of the foot, the purpose is to make the baby feel pain and breathing, the most important thing at this time is to allow the baby to breathe in, oxygen can enter the lungs to avoid lack of oxygen. At the moment of choking to save life, the most important thing is to buy time to send air into the lungs, rather than wasting time thinking about how to remove the foreign body, this concept is very important.