How to Hold a Newborn Baby When Burping?

Some babies are immensely gaseous than the other babies, and they create a kind of gas bubble inside their bodies. Some babies get cranky after feeding, and some of them generate a fuss after milk intake.

This burp feeling develops because of the trapped air in the milk. The baby swallows this air while feeding milk. This burp or trapped air could be a problem inside the stomach of the baby, and the baby can get uncomfortable.

In this article, we have added 5 of these best and proven methods for holding a newborn baby when burping. These methods include: take the baby on the shoulder, place the face of the baby on the lap, try to make babysitting up, walking with the baby, moving hand from neck to spinal cord.

It is essential to release this entrapped air in the stomach. The reason behind that is when the baby swallows the air while breast milk or other milk formulas; this air remains in the stomach, and it fills the stomach in a more considerable amount. Due to the presence of this entrapped air, the belly of the baby becomes full, and the baby feels that he or she is full of feed and doesn’t need any feed even after hours.

This feeling causes a kind of problem to the parents or feeding mothers because the feeding routines and meal routines change. The baby cries for a feed, but due to the overloaded stomach with gas, the baby can not drink more milk.

How to Hold a Newborn Baby When Burping? 5 Best Methods

There are some best positions and ways to give a burping to a baby. These positions need proper attention and accurate expertise because the baby is so small; that is why the handling of the baby should be more delicate and must be in control.

Some tips while giving baby a burp is using a burp cloth of a bib because sometimes due to some negligence, the baby spit of vomit. Use slight pressures and handle the baby carefully; otherwise, the baby will cough, and it will result in discomfort.

Put the newborn baby on the shoulder when burping

This technique is advantageous and reliable to give a burp to a baby. This position helps the babu to release the retained gas in the stomach in less than sixty seconds. But the condition is that the method should be appropriate and it should perform with extreme care.

If the position taken with negligence, the baby can spit the milk or can vomit all the liquid. For this concern, use spit bib or other cloth around the neck of the baby. Then your shoulder while performing this position for the burping of the baby.

Just hold the baby and take it to your shoulder. Handle the baby carefully. Put the baby in your hands in a very safe and high care way. The grip of hands on the baby should be firm. After holding the baby firmly, hold the bottom of the baby’s body with one hand carefully. Give great support to the bottom of the baby. Put one hand on the back of the newborn baby and slightly rub your hand on the end of the baby two to three times.

After rubbing the side, give a tap on the back smoothly. If the baby burps with single tap stop tapping, otherwise tap two to three times. And surely the baby will burp after these smooth taps and will become comfortable and relax. This method is a sure-shot way of giving a baby a small burp, and it releases the tension of the baby’s stomach as well as the tension of mothers.

Put the face of the baby on the lap

This technique is the second and one more fantastic method with quick relief from the gas inside the stomach of the baby. This method is secure, but it needs the most care as well. You should be careful while handling the baby during the use of this position. In this technique, you hold the newborn baby carefully with your hands and put it in the downwards direction. Most importantly, while performing this technique, you should be in a sitting position.

You should be available for the baby. After holding and handling the baby in the downward direction, put the baby on your lap; you should give extra care. Here this step is critical, and it needs extreme care because god forbids the baby can slip. Put the baby on the lap in such a way that the bottom of the baby’s body should be on your one leg, and the head should be on the other leg, and these positions should be in turn side directions.

After putting baby on your lap by following the instructions, rub the back of the baby twice or thrice a time. After softly stroking the end of the baby, pat on the back of the baby in a very slight and careful way, tap on the newborn baby’s back thrice at least, and surely the baby will burp and will release the tension of their gastric system. This method is a very reliable technique, but you need to be very conscious while performing these positions.

Hold the newborn baby in sitting position for burping

This technique for newborn baby burping is straightforward. But it is very crucial at the same time. The reason behind the crucially of this position is that it needs extreme attention and care. The baby is so delicate and small, and every part of the baby’s body is short and soft.in this method, there is a need for sitting while doing the whole process. That’s why it is a requirement to give extra attention to the back of the baby, especially to the spinal cord.

In this technique, you should be in a sitting position because you are going to do this in a lap position. Hold the baby with your hands firmly. And allow the baby to sit on lap, in a way that the bottom of the baby should be on one leg.

Then make the baby sit comfortably and hold the baby carefully for some time. Then lean the baby towards your other leg slightly when the baby bow; rub your one hand on the back of the baby while with the other hand, give proper support to the baby.

After rubbing the hand on the back of the baby, give few taps at the end of the baby. These taps should be very soft and harmless; otherwise, the baby will vomit the feed or will start coughing. With two to three taps on the back of the baby, the gas will release the tension of the stomach and will burp.

Walking method with the baby

Walking with your newborn baby to release any gaseous material from the stomach of that baby is an excellent technique. Because it requires less effort and minor care, but you can perform this technique when you make sure that the baby is now can stand upright in the lap or when you hold the baby. The head can stay in one firm position, and the baby doesn’t swim in the air. For this method, hold the baby and take it in your arms very carefully.

But you have to take the baby in such a way that the backside of the baby’s head touches your shoulders, and you can put one hand on the stomach of the baby. By holding the baby this way, move here and there slowly, after some walk, give slight pressure on the belly of the baby and keep walking with the baby in your hands. This slight pressure will provide a sense of burp to the baby, and within two minutes, the baby will release the gaseous tension of the gastric organ.

Move your hand from the back of the neck to the spinal cord

This technique is advantageous as well as needs care. For this method, you should take the baby in your hands. Make yourself in the sitting position; otherwise, if you are confident about handling the baby, then you can perform this method in the standing position as well.

For this kind of baby burping, you need to hold the baby in your hands with care and put the head of the baby on your shoulder and give extreme support with one side to the bottom of the baby. Then after making sure that the baby is in the safe position now, rub the back of the baby with one hand in such a way .that the hand moves from the backside of the baby’s neck to the spinal cord or the baby in the downwards direction.

Slightly rub the baby two to three times. This rubbing should be smooth and without giving any pressure. By this rubbing, the baby will burp and feel relax within seconds. This method is straightforward and effective.

So if you want to give a burp to the baby without any harm, there are some methods for that, I hope this information will help you in the best possible way.

Dr. Qaisrani

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