Few Tricks to Help Your Baby with Spit-up and Constipation

Babies. What is there to say about them? Well you can say that they're cute, cuddly, precious, fun and fragile. But let's not forget the fact that babies are also complicated, hard work, and challenging. Since they can not speak, you need to figure out what they need or how they feel. Now I'm not an expert but I can share with you some tips I have used to help my baby out. As most of you parents know, babies spit up. And we all know there is nothing more attractive then having baby spit on your outfit. It's expected for a baby to spit up, most likely after a feeding. When you are a new mom like me, it might a little disturbing for you to see your darling baby spit up a storm. I'm talking when they spit up, it just explodes out of their mouth and sometimes even their nose. After witnessing this, I asked myself these questions:

1. Is that supposed to come out of her nose?
2. Does she spit up way to much after her feeding?
3. Should this happen every time she feeds?

If you may be worried about how much and how often your baby is spitting up and are constantly asking yourself similar questions, here are a few tricks that I have learned that seem to work for me.

Should your baby be spitting milk out of her nose (more common for bottle-fed babies), check the way she is positioned. You want to make sure that the baby is sitting up right, preferably at a 45 degree angel. The flatter that you have her lying during a feeding, the more likely that can cause the milk to easily come out of her nose. Find a pillow to place her on or the arm of a couch or chair to help position her up right. Placing her in a car seat works just as well. When you keep your baby in an upright position like this, it helps reduce the amount of air intake which can lead to some bad spit ups.

If your baby is like mine, you may have to add ½-1 teaspoon of baby rice cereal to her bottle. The rice cereal thickens up in the bottle and helps stick to the inside of their stomach. I find that giving her ½ teaspoon of rice cereal to a 4 ounce bottle works best right before her bedtime (which can also help them sleep). The only downfall to the rice cereal is that it makes it hard for the baby to pass a bowel movement.

We all know how it is to be clogged up. It's uncomfortable. Unlike us though, babies have a limit as to what they can take to help pass a bowel.

If you find that your baby maybe having difficulty passing a bowel, try using apple juice. The apple juice works like a stool softener. Grab a small bottle since your only going to fill it up about 1-1 ½ ounces, maybe adding a little water to it to dilute it some. Mixing a bottle of water up with ½ teaspoon of sugar works as a softener and kind of like a laxative. It's just the same concept of using white kayo syrup. What that does since it's a think substance is it pulls down of what the baby had already digested, helping the baby pass a bowel.

These are just a few tricks I was told by my doctor that I can do to help my baby and they have worked for me. Since some of these tricks are controversial depending on how old you baby is, it is very important that you talk to your doctor about what you can do to help your baby.