When do you start burping your baby?

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First time mom...do I need to burp my baby after I have her in the hospital? Or do we start days after she's born at home?

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After every feeding from day 1 is what I’ve done with my kids

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I breastfed my daughter and am now breastfeeding my week-old son, and both of them have rarely burped after feeds. Breastfed babies don’t swallow as much air as bottle-fed babies. If you’re bottle feeding then I would say yes, burp from day one. I still do put my son up on my shoulder and rub his back a bit after feedings but I would say he’s probably burped twice since I’ve had him, and it was the same for my first.

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After every single feeding. The nurses helped burp my son while we were in the hospital though.

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I do after every feed, my little one is nursing. She has Tracheomalacia, so sometimes she sucks down air and she has to be burped or she will spit everything up.

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Our boy is breastfed and never needs burped. He does it on his own roughly 20 minutes following a feeding if he swallowed enough air to but if not, he’s all good.

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In the hospital, I asked this a couple days ago when mine was born!

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I’d do it after every feed, but apparently breast fed babies don’t necessarily need burping, I found my first burped a lot less when I was breast feeding her, but I still tried after every feed anyway just in case

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Honestly it’s not even clear that babies need burping.

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You do it after every feed, in the hospital or not.

When do you start burping your baby?

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