The burping myth!

*This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

You might have heard that babies need to be burped after, or during, feeds. If you don’t, they may get gassy and it will cause them to cry! The stomach pressure and patting is supposed to help let out air from their stomach.

But burping around feeding isn’t necessary and doesn’t help with fussiness due to gas! Babies will burp in any position, like adults.

Those few babies who really do cry from gas (and these are breasfed babies) have fermentation of lactose in the large intestine, not swallowed air in the stomach.

Burping isn’t totally harmless! It interrupts the baby's sleepiness at the end of a feed, waking the baby up and overriding the combined effects of sleep pressure, the hormones of satiety, and the

parasympathetic nervous system. For this reason, burping interferes with the biological drivers of infant sleep!

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