Dealing With Baby’s Hiccups
No matter how annoying hiccups can get, you can still deal with them by simply waiting for them to stop. Besides, you know for a fact that hiccups last for a few minutes only. However, it seems almost impossible not to get worried when it is our babies, particularly the newborns, who get hiccups. May be we are thinking that such simple uncomfortable condition is too much for a newborn baby to take. The truth is that a hiccup actually happens more often to newborns than any infant or adult. Further, it usually takes a longer time for hiccups in newborns to stop, not to mention that they may start having hiccups as early as six months from conception. Even so, there is nothing to worry with hiccups in newborns. They are too used to having one, that they, in fact, might be wondering why not everyone is having a hiccup.
Usually in adults, what causes hiccups are the person’s unhealthy eating and drinking habits, such as overeating, too much eating of spicy and hot food, eating too quickly and drinking too much alcohol and carbonated beverages. Others even believe that hiccups in adults have to do with smoking excessively. On the other hand, newborns get hiccups when they are excited or after a feed. Hence, it seems that it is easier for newborns to get hiccups, but it is probably because of the relative immaturity of the internal organs of a baby.
Since there are very few reasons why newborns are more regularly experiencing hiccups, there are actually no remedies at all to hiccups in newborns. Doctors would usually tell parents to just patiently wait for the hiccups to stop. Besides, as the baby grows, the intensity and frequency of having a hiccup is reduced. Probably the other helpful thing to do is to help the baby burp right after a feed.
