My little girl (born 11 days ago) gets the most horrendous hiccups after she is fed. They start out rather mild, and then increase in frequency and strength until her little body spasms horribly, and she starts to cry.
Being a new parent, I often freak out about the smallest things. I’ve read that baby hiccups are natural, and that they are nothing to worry about. However, these are real whoppers, and they seem to make her pretty uncomfortable. And traditional hiccup-stoppers wouldn’t work on a baby (I drink a large glass of water rapidly to get rid of my own). I’ve even trying scaring her, but she only cried louder, and I was left with the distinct feeling that I’m the biggest jerk ever for scaring an infant.
So, does anyone have any ideas about how to stop a baby from hiccuping?
Supposedly soemthing sweet in water (not honey!) will help them. Never had that problem with my kids. You might get a better response in MPSIMS with this, actually, where there are a greater number of mothers per capita (I think).
BTW I’m not implying that it’s not a valid GQ. Just trying to help.
Is she breastfed or bottlefed? If she is breastfed, have a look at your SO’s diet. My older son got hiccups along with truly horrendous colic when I ate food he was intolerant of.
With bottle feeding, try a different formula and/or a different bottle. Did she have hiccups in utero?
First of all yes, a most hearty congratulations. I would BEG BEG BEG you not to seek out medical advice on a Message Board like ours. Not because someone here might not be a brilliant Pediatrician, but because this is your CHILD- go to your pediatrician with the BABY, have the baby FED THERE ( of course, this may require the presence of the lactating member of your household, if this is the path you are taking ). Let the Dr. see the reaction first-hand.
I love this board, I do trust the thoughts of the well-educated, and excellently-cited people who post here. Doesn’t mean squat in this case. Call the Doctor. She/He will advise you directly. It really is the only safe course. You wanna debated WHY the kid USED to get these episodes? Yeah baby, we can get into that. You need to know NOW how to deal with it?
Call the Doctor. And, Mazel Tov again My .03 cents. And, for anyone out there who IS a Pediatrician, save the flaming for the Pit. ( And, oh shit, if the actual Doctor of THIS baby is a Member here? ROFL I’m dead )
Thanks to everyone for the advice, and the congratulations.
Cartooniverse (btw, I love that username), I posted here because I thought that, most likely, I was overreacting, and I would feel foolish calling the Dr. for something that is probably nothing. I don’t want to come off like some hysterical daddy. I was saving the frantic phone calls to the Dr. when we had a genuine medical emergency,like “Flames are shooting out of my baby’s rectum, and it just set the dog on fire! What do we do?”
I thought that someone here might’ve experienced something similar, and knew some home remedy. That being said, I think that I will call the Doctor. I mean, we are already paying him a buttload anyway. Might as well get our money’s worth. Besides, my baby’s discomfort is more important than my potential embarassment.
But do NOT NOT NOT go to a chiropractor. My wife’s nutritionist’s husband is one. When my wife told her nutritionist about our newborn’s (CRB) hiccups, she suggested seeing her husband.
We saw him. He said that a fractured clavicle she suffered at birth and various other things that today’s OBGYNs do cause cervical misalignments and pinch the nerve that triggers hiccups. After a thoroughly quacky treatment, he charged us the discounted rate of $75, and said she’d need 7 more visits, also at $75. My wife could tell that I didn’t think much of the treatment (that made CRB cry just as bad as when she had her infected tear duct drained). So she didn’t press me on making follow-up appointments.
But my wife noticed that CRB’s hiccups quit for about a week. (But that’s about how often her bad hiccup spells showed up anyways.) I stood firm, and we didn’t see him anymore. And CRB’s hiccups slowly went away for the most part.
