How to Burp a Baby
Watch 1 Mom Demonstrate an Easier, "Foolproof" Way to Burp a Baby
There's essentially one way most moms burp a baby — you pat them on the back . . . and pat them some more . . . and keep patting them . . . until they eventually maybe burp. But not always. It's not ideal.
After finding only intermittent success with burping her firstborn and always asking herself, "should I take the risk and put him down?" for fear he'd spit up, Australian mom Sophia Cachia discovered a "fool proof way" to burp her two kids that she "completely stumbled across by pure accident."
Here's what she does, as seen in the video above:
Simply (so it's definitely not always SIMPLE, sometimes they arch their back and you need to use some gentle-but-firm mummy/daddy love to hold them in place) sit them on your lap and bring their knees bent in like so, and lift their arms up to about a 90-degree angle. I'm not sure if it's because it straightens their back or opens up their body more, but I find my kids have just magically burped this way.
There's one catch: she writes that "they need to be calm" and their body should be relaxed, but she lets her baby — who often cries "the roof off" after a bottle – use a pacifier while doing the burp technique.
