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5 Tips to Relieve Baby’s Gas

Gas

Baby will initially have some gas. It will take some time for baby to get used to eating breast milk or formula. You may want to consider laying off spicy food and excessive amounts of chocolate/coffee (anything with caffeine) until baby’s digestive system acclimates.

Here are a few suggestions that may help relieve gas pain for your baby.

• Simethicone – active ingredient like the name brand “mylicon ”. This is almost the miracle cure.
• Lay baby on tummy. Pressure on the tummy helps relieves gas pressure.
• Tummy massage. Massage tummy using lotion in a circle “C” motion. Create the “c” shape around the belly button. This follows the digestive track and helps push the gas and poopy out.
• Patting the bottom. Put baby over your shoulder and pat baby on the bottom in rhythmic time.
• Food culprits. If baby is having a lot of gas you may want to investigate any new food they are eating or if you are breast feeding you may want to cut back on any food that could be causing excess gas. Occasionally diary products can cause gas discomfort so you may need to cut down on eating diary if you are breast feeding

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Sleeping Tips

Sleeping tips:

• When new baby’s get home they will sleep a lot for the few couple of weeks, make sure you spend time keeping your baby awake during the day so the bulk of his sleep time is at night.
• Put a flat pillow or blanket under one end of the mattress of the baby bed. This helps elevate the baby’s head and helps them breath. *If you notice they do this in the hospital.
• Feed baby when they wake up and put them to bed when they are starting to get sleepy. This is really important to do to establish good sleeping patterns.
• Create a relaxing bed time routine. Bathing, massage, snuggle time with mommy, ect.

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