![]() Many parents worry about this, but although it is possible, it is unlikely. Regular overfeeding doesn’t just trigger more spitting up, it also increases risk of child overweight and obesity.3 See the later “Strategies” section for tips to prevent overfeeding.Ĭan Something I Ate Cause My Baby to Spit Up? When babies eat too fast (just like adults), they are more likely to overeat. Unless paced bottle-feeding is used (described HERE), which makes bottle-feeding more like nursing, during bottle-feeding, milk flow from the bottle is consistently fast. These periods of slower milk flow between milk ejections gives babies time to realize they’re full and stop nursing before they overfeed. Why? During nursing, milk flow is fast during milk ejections (parents average five per feed, even though most don’t feel them all) and slower in between. Nursing babies are less likely to overfeed and spit up in part because on average they consume less milk per feed than they do during a bottle-feeding. Babies who directly nurse are less likely to overfeed than babies who are bottle-fed, no matter what’s in the bottle.3 But overfeeding can happen with direct nursing, too, when parents produce much more milk than the baby takes (oversupply, aka hyperlactation) and especially when they regularly coax their babies to keep nursing after they are done.4 Babies who are fast nursers can sometimes take all they need in just 5 minutes. See the later “Strategies” section for tips to minimize spitting up. Some refer to this as a laundry problem, not a medical problem. Sometimes called “happy spitters,” think of spitting up in these babies as a temporary inconvenience that will resolve on its own over time. Even if it looks like much milk is lost, spitting up is not a cause for concern when the baby is gaining weight as expected and feeding well. Sometimes babies bring up a little milk and sometimes a lot. Often, spitting up happens after feeding. Usually, babies vomit when they are ill and spit up (or “spill”) when they’re not. Vomiting and spitting up are not the same. By 12 months, only 4% to 10% of babies spit up.2 Spitting up peaks between 3 and 5 months, occurring less and less often as the digestive system matures and baby spends more time upright. Normal reflux becomes spitting up when the baby’s stomach contents make it all the way up her esophagus and out of her mouth. Known as reflux, this is normal in both children and adults. On average, several times each day a baby’s stomach contents wash back into her esophagus. Yes, because most young babies (between 50% and 70%) spit up at least some of the time.1 Why? In the early months, the sphincter muscle that keeps the milk in the baby’s stomach has low tone and relaxes often. Will my baby’s weight gain suffer with the loss of so much milk?Īlong with these concerns, parents often ask themselves “What should I do next?” Here are the answers to these and other questions. Spitting up can trigger a host of worries in new parents, some related to their role in this behavior and others to do with baby’s growth and health.
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