Recently, we often receive some readers and friends of the phone or letter, told us that the baby often hiccups, choking, overflow, spitting up and other phenomena when eating milk, some babies eat milk hands and feet moving or crying, some babies eat to the end of the tugging on the mother’s clothes or hair to play. So are these phenomena normal? What should we do? First of all, let’s understand the special anatomy of the baby’s digestive tract. The baby’s stomach is horizontal, the capacity is small, the stomach inlet muscles are poorly developed while the outlet muscles are better developed, and the gastrointestinal tract is poorly regulated. Coupled with the baby sucking and swallowing ability is poor, easy to suck in the air when eating milk, so under normal circumstances the baby will often have hiccups after eating milk, overflow, some babies even spit up phenomenon. So what is the difference between spitting up and overflow? Generally speaking the amount of milk spillage is small, the distance is shorter, more often occurs in just after eating milk, usually spit out one or two mouths, while spitting up the amount of milk is generally more, spit up the distance is farther away, often occurs about half an hour after feeding. The baby spilled milk or spit up once in a while, good mental state, normal growth and development, do not need to be too nervous. If the spitting up is frequent, you should pay attention to whether the child has fever, bloating, diarrhea, weight loss and so on. Then you need to take the baby to the hospital for examination. In addition, if the baby is too eager to eat milk, there may also be choking phenomenon, serious choking can cause aspiration pneumonia, or even block the respiratory tract and endanger the baby’s life. So what are the ways to reduce baby choking and spitting up? Parents can take the following approaches: 1, let the baby a small number of meals, in order to reduce the pressure on the stomach. 2.After each feeding, let the baby stand upright and gently pat the baby’s back. 3, breastfeeding can not be too fast, too fast, let the baby rest for a moment in the middle. 4, nipple opening to moderate, opening too small baby need to suck hard, the air is easy to enter the stomach; opening too large baby easy to choke. 5, after feeding, do not let the baby lie down immediately, the first half of the upper body to sit up straight for a while, lying down, should be the baby’s upper body cushion higher. 6, after breastfeeding, do not let the baby too excited, and do not arbitrarily shake the baby. Normal baby eating milk should be very quiet and very involved in the appearance, but some babies eat milk hands and feet moving or crying, in fact, the baby’s “young mind” is very fragile, any possible discomfort may cause the baby’s hands and feet moving, irritable or crying and restlessness. Then as a parent to timely find and deal with these possible factors. The following is a brief introduction to several common causes of baby irritability or crying: 1, the baby is very clean, if you do not change his wet clothes, diapers, etc., then he will use his hands and feet moving or crying to express protest. 2, the mother’s milk is not enough: some mothers’ milk “inventory” is small, the baby ate quickly, but did not eat enough. The baby sucked hard but could not get “reward”, of course, will be very irritable! 3, changes in the external environment and stimulation: some babies are very sensitive to changes in the environment (such as from the hospital back home), some babies are very sensitive to external stimuli (such as bright light, sound or different flavors), some babies do not like to eat milk when being held too tight ……. All of these factors can cause discomfort in babies. 4, mom ate some special food: sometimes mom may notice that her baby is more irritable when she eats certain special foods. For example, after the mother drank coffee, tea or cola, the baby especially like to cry and quarrel, because these foods contain caffeine row to the breast milk, so that the baby irritable. 5, to pay attention to the baby’s mouth whether there are ulcers or thrush, if there are these conditions, the baby will have uncomfortable feeling when eating milk. Baby milk learning a lot, some babies eat to the end, tugging the mother to play – tugging the mother’s clothes, tugging the mother’s hair, and even tugging on their own clothes to reveal their little stomach, as if to say: Mom you rub you rub it! This time that the baby has eaten enough, and want to communicate with the mother feelings. You do not see the baby can not speak, but he already has his own thinking, this time the mother can stop breastfeeding, while talking to the baby, while gently caressing the baby’s back or belly, enjoy this wonderful moment with the baby.