How to burp while feeding while lying on your side

After a new mother gives birth to a baby, she has to get up early and stay up late to breastfeed and take care of the baby, which is indeed exhausting, so many mothers choose to breastfeed while lying down. In fact, lying down to breastfeed has many disadvantages, and it is not good for the baby. Even so, mothers still have such doubts about lying down to breastfeed. Do you need to burp the baby when he is lying down to drink milk? How to burp the baby when lying on the side to breastfeed? Maybe many newborn mothers have a hard time taking care of their newborns. If you lie on the side to breastfeed, how should you burp the baby? Let's take a look with me below.

There are many ways to burp your baby when feeding in the side lying position, but you need to learn and train the method of burping properly. Because the baby is very small and its organs are not well developed, the mother needs to burp the baby after feeding. The mother can let the child's body be upright and gently pat the child's back. That is a very easy way. Or let the child squat and then the mother pats the child's back, this way the child is also easy to burp. Or the mother can let the child crawl and pat the child's back. The child likes this feeling and will cooperate with the mother more, which makes it easier for the child to burp.

Do I need to burp my baby while he is lying down to drink milk ?

The baby should be burped when drinking milk while lying down. Because the baby will still have burps when drinking milk while lying down, if you don't burp the baby in time and let the baby lie down to sleep immediately after finishing feeding, it is easy for the baby to vomit milk or spit up milk, or even choke on milk, which is very dangerous. Therefore, the baby still needs to be burped when drinking milk while lying down.

Is it okay to feed your baby while lying down?

It is not good for babies to drink milk while lying flat on their backs. For babies who are exclusively breastfed, their mothers often lie flat when feeding them at night, but this practice is not correct. Because when breastfeeding while lying down, if the mother accidentally falls asleep, it is very easy for the breast to block the child's mouth and nose, causing the child to suffocate to death. Such misfortunes have happened more than one or two times, so mothers should pay special attention to it.