During the first months of life, almost every babies suffer gas. It is one of his worst evils. The nerves cause them to increase, especially when they feed, this causes them to suffer an episode of crying of up to two hours.
If our baby suffers excess gas, we need to know the cause, for this we must visit the specialist. There are prevention modes for relieve baby's gas. In the shots it is normal for him to swallow air, but we must ensure that it is as little as possible, for this we must give him the breast or bottle calmly, without nerves and if he does not want to, do not force him.
How to relieve baby's gas?
If you take a bottle, we must try to keep the container in an upright position so that no air enters the nipple. If you are breast-feeding, make sure that the nipple has the correct size hole. If it were too large, too much milk would come out and the baby could choke, and if it is too small, it will have to try harder to suck and swallow more air.
Once our baby has finished taking, it should be belching and we should help him, but we must bear in mind that if the baby is prone to gas, we should cause the belching in the middle of the taking and at the end.
Sometimes he belch It takes time to leave, but we must not insist, sometimes it is not necessary. The best positions to help our baby to burp are: lying the baby upside down, on our legs providing soft blows on the back. It is also effective to sit it on our legs, slightly tilted forward, holding it by your chest and neck with one hand and rubbing your back with the other. You can also lightly pat it.
The most common way to do this is in arms, resting the baby on our chest, in an upright position and his head at the height of our shoulder. With soft patting on the back, the belching will come out.
In the event that our baby suffer gas, we must try to relieve the pain, since there is no medicine that we can provide, we must use these remedies: a circular massage in the gut with both hands, clockwise and without the diaper.
Take it in your arms upside down with one hand on your gut to warm it and balance it slowly. Rhythmic movements will relieve you. Sometimes some soft herbs in infusion work, but this should be checked with the pediatrician.
A lot of patience and not being nervous is the main thing, our baby is suffering, but it is we who have to try to calm him and achieve his well-being.
