Why does the baby spit up an hour after feeding?

Many young mothers are worried when a newborn spews up immediately or an hour after feeding. But regurgitation in newborns up to 7-8 months is a normal physiological process, and it is related to the peculiarities of the structure of the digestive tract of the baby. A baby can get rid of excess milk or swallowed during feeding. To get rid of anxiety, Mom needs to be able to distinguish the usual regurgitation from vomiting, which can be a sign of serious illness.

How to distinguish regurgitation from vomiting?

If an hour after feeding, the baby belches, you need to carefully monitor its condition. It does not cause fear:

• if the leaving milk curdled, but does not have the color and smell of gastric juice or mucus impurities;
• if the kid is calm, grows well and sleeps at night safely;
• if he rarely has colic and gas formation, and there are no problems with stools;
• if regurgitation occurs a couple of times a day and small in volume.

The baby has vomiting, if:

• he belches a fountain;
• vomiting is large;
• they have the color and smell of bile, the admixture of mucus;
• the child is restless, he has frequent colic, stools and gas.

Why does the child often spit up an hour after feeding?

The baby regurgitates after some time after eating for the following reasons:

• he overeat and regurgitate excess milk, this happens most often with artificial feeding ;
• when feeding a baby swallows a lot of air, and this air bubble, along with a part of the food, it burps about an hour after feeding;
• The cause of regurgitation can be increased gassing due to improperly selected formula or nutrition of the nursing mother.

What should I do if the babies often spit up an hour after feeding?

To reduce the frequency of regurgitation will help such measures:

1. Take care that the baby completely grasped the nipple while breastfeeding, and there was not too much opening in the nipple of the bottle. The child should not smack while eating and swallow the air.
2. To prevent regurgitation, put the baby on the tummy before feeding, and then feed it in a semi-vertical position.
3. After the child ate, do not bother him, change clothes, do massage and gymnastics.
4. After eating for 10-15 minutes, wear the baby in an upright position, so that accidentally swallowed air is released.