Hi-Cups

Hey Cel

I have a 2 week old who gets hiccups every night. I found that if I hold him over my shoulder like I'm going to burp him and just pat his bottom, they eventually go away. If that doesn't work try switching off patting her bottom and rubbing her back. If that doesn't work, when I was in the hospital they told me to feed him to get rid of the hiccups. Hope I helped :]

Goodluck

K.

you can try the little tummies gripe water, but they usually just go away on their own. Don't worry they irritate us more than they do them.

Burp her really well and give her a pacifier. Most hicups are cause by agrivation of the diaphram (usually from eating too much or needing to burp.) the pacifier will cause contractions in her esophagus that can help stop hicups once they've started (swallowing a teaspoon of dry sugar works great for older kids and adults b/c of the same principle - lots of swallowing). In the future try shorter more frequent feedings to keep her from getting over full.

My son got them all the time when he was a newborn. He had them in his first day of life at the hospital. I was waiting for them to go away to try to breastfeed him, when the nurse told me to just go ahead and feed him and they would go away. As soon as he started sucking, they stopped. Worked like a charm every time. He got them a lot for the first 4-5 months, and then they started to slow down. The doctor did tell me too that they are more bothersome to me than him, but it just seemed like his whole little body was convulsing every time, I felt so bad for him. Putting him on the breast worked great though, so I would do that even if it wasn't time for him to eat even if it was just long enough to get them to go away.