Does your LO burp after each feeding?

SouthernCJ · September 2009

Sometime he falls asleep while eating and I can't get a burp out of him. Is it bad to put him in his crib without a burp?

MidwestTexan · September 2009

At your baby's age, DS never burped...now at 3 months he burps all the time.

lauralee1 · September 2009

I think it is fine as long as you don't notice he has gas issues later

kellyperk85 · September 2009

I keep trying. I never put him down without a burp because I don't want to wake up to screaming gas pains.

lab63007 · September 2009

I've found that if she's in a 'deep sleep' - that dead to the world nothing could wake her sleep, she's okay to put down. But if she's still breathing heavy & not quite in a deep sleep I find that she tends to spit up when I put her down...sometimes I'll do it & then just wait until she does. But that's usually how I decide what to do. Hope that helps!

angel555 · September 2009

We didn't reliably get a burp out of DD until about the 1 1/2 month mark. Before that, it was pretty sporadic, and nothing we did or didn't do made a difference. If you're BF, it could be that he's not swallowing enough air to make a burp. (BF babies don't swallow as much air as FF.)

Regardless, if your LO doesn't burp after you guys try, I wouldn't worry about it. My pedi said that babies make gas in their intestines anyway, so even if you are successful at getting a burp out, it's not like he won't have any gas at all, you know?

So, not bad to put him in crib w/o a burp. HTH

BigIsland07 · September 2009

DS almost always burps when he's awake, but only 50/50 when he falls asleep while/immediately after eating. He definitely lets me know when I've put him down (even when sleeping) and he has to burp. He'll either start to cry a few minutes later and when I pick him up, he'll burp within 2 or three minutes. Or, he'll spit up.

I give myself 10 minutes of burping and if nothing happens, I put him down.

SouthernCJ · September 2009

Thank you ladies. The nurses in the hospital made it seem like I had to get a good burp out of him after each feeding. I didn't know that breastfed babies swallow less air, and right now I'm EBF.

slacy · September 2009

Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. There's really no rhyme or reason to it.

Sara

MrsV092207 · September 2009

DD is EBF and always burps after a feeding. One night at the hospital, after I didn't burp her pretty much all day, she was screaming bloody murder... it took a long time to get all that gas out and to calm her down. So now I refuse to put her down until I get a burp or if it's been at least 20 minutes since she stopped eating. Sometimes it just takes a while for the burp to come out.

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