Tricks for burping?

Sarah

My 6 day old is very hard to burp. He was born a little early (37 weeks exactly) so I’m not sure if that has something to do with it. We tried sitting him up and patting his back, putting him over our shoulder, and putting him on his tummy on our arm and patting his back, and out of all of these we’ve had the most success with sitting him up, but still we can’t get him to burp every time.

Does anyone have any tricks to getting their newborn to burp? Honestly I didn’t think this would be the hardest part so far of being a new parent 😭