Whether small or big problems occur to a baby, both can give an impact on parents such as hiccup after breast feeding. This is one of the top problems which every new mother is always worried. However, theses are some techniques for mothers to solve the obstacle and get to know more about hiccup as well.
Hiccup during breast feeding
When a newborn baby has a hiccup after receiving a breast feeding from a mother. According to that is not considered as a harmful case or dangerous due to it happens to all children. The hiccup is caused by the expansion of the stomach after receiving a milk breast. Causing a pressure to the diaphragmatic muscles, which locate at the anastomotic site between the lung and the abdominal cavity, accordingly that provides a sound of the muscular contraction while exhaling rapidly. When the children are about 4-5 months old, this hiccup will gradually reduce and disappear.
After knowing the cause of the hiccup. These are 4 techniques for parents, dealing with the obstacle.
1. Every time after milk breast feeding, a mother has to make the baby eruct out. Which may do that by a tap on the back. Or circling the fingers around the abdominal area can be done as well.
2. Carrying the baby in a position which provides the baby to eruct as the head resting on your shoulder together with rubbing the back. Or carrying by placing upon the shoulder. But making sure that the baby is set in a straight position. Next, is taking a walk to contribute the milk out of the stomach faster.
3. Make the baby sit straight on the lap. Then use the thumb and index finger hold on the chin. Move the body of your baby slightly forward. And use your hands with a slowly patting or rubbing up and down from the waist up to the neck. In order to provide a burping
4. Breast feeding can cure the hiccup as well without any water providing. But if in the case when children are able to drink powdered milk. May solve by feeding the baby with the bottle of the milk. It will help the children stop having the hiccup faster.
But when try doing all techniques but the hiccup duration takes long hours. Parents should take the children to the doctor as the best way of solutions.
