Netizen consultation: my baby a month and three days, the recent days always spit up milk, sometimes just finished the milk will spit out the nose and mouth, do not know what the reason? And recently he does not sleep solid, daytime do not sleep, night also only sleep a few hours to wake up, will not sleep again.
Experts: newborn easy to spit up the reason is that their stomach and throat are not yet mature
Neonatal stomach, from the front is lying horizontally, showing an unstable state, while the cardia (stomach entrance) is relatively loose. That is to say, when adults eat, when food enters the stomach, the cardia will shrink to prevent food from flowing back into the esophagus; however, because the gastric cardia of an infant cannot be contracted well, milk entering the stomach can flow back to the esophagus easily. In addition, compared with adults, the position of the newborn's larynx is higher. In addition, their way of containing nipples is relatively clumsy. As a result, Qi is easily inhaled into the stomach together with milk during breast feeding. Therefore, when the child burps or shakes the body, the milk eaten is more likely to be vomited out.
How to prevent the child from spitting up? How to nurse after vomiting?
If the nipple hole is too small, the child will have to suck hard, which will cause air and milk to be sucked in together, and also easy to cause vomiting; but if the nipple hole is too large, the child will be easily choked and cause severe cough when sucking. Therefore, when choosing a pacifier, we should consider whether the size of the nipple hole is suitable for our children.
Note: if the baby has to spit after each feeding, we need to adjust the quantity and interval of each feeding. That is to say, it's better to nurse less and more frequently, and it's better to help the baby burp after each feeding.
The best way to prevent vomiting is to help your child belch
Children in 3-4 months old, not only can master the sucking skills, but also the cardiac contractile function has developed mature, so the frequency of vomiting will be significantly reduced. Before that, we'd better help the baby burp after every feeding.
How to help children with hiccups:
Hold the baby upright and pat your back gently
After holding the child upright, gently pat the back for more than 5 minutes, which is the basic method to help children pat hiccups. If your child still can't burp, try massaging your child's back with your palm.
Put up the child's chin and let the child sit up
Let the child sit on his legs, and then pat the back. Because when the child is sitting, the stomach entrance is upward, so burping is easier.
When you can't belch
Inhale the air in the stomach, and sometimes clip in the milk before and after inhalation. At this time, if the child's upper body is upright, it will be conducive to the discharge of air in the stomach. Therefore, the mother can hold the child upright, or can give the child a high back to keep the upper body tilted for about 30 minutes.
If the baby spits
Keep your upper body up
Once vomit enters the trachea, it can cause asphyxia. Therefore, when letting the child lie down, it is better to put the bath towel under the child's body and keep the upper body elevated. If the baby is lying down, we can turn the baby's face to one side.
After spitting, pay more attention to observe the child's condition
When the child lies down, put the child's head high, or simply hold the child upright. After vomiting, the child's face may not be good, but as long as it can recover later, there will be no problem. In addition, according to the situation can be appropriate to add some water to the child.
Rehydration should be done 30 minutes after vomiting
After the child vomit, if you give the child water immediately, it may cause vomiting again. Therefore, it is best to try to feed the baby with a spoon about 30 minutes after vomiting.
After spitting, the amount of milk to be fed each time should be reduced to half of the normal amount
In the baby spirit recovery, and want to milk, we can give the baby some milk. But each time the amount of milk to be reduced to about half of the usual, but the number of times can be increased. During the period of continuous vomiting, we can only feed the baby milk, not other food, including complementary food.