A baby is born! The baby’s health and well-being in the first months of life largely depends on caring for him. The first test may begin for mom in the hospital. We are talking about such an unpleasant phenomenon as gaziki. What is it, why do they arise, and how to help a newborn baby get rid of gas jets - let's talk more about this.
Causes of gas workers
Recognizing that babies are tormented by gas workers is very simple.
The child begins to scream sharply, push the legs up to the tummy, bend them from side to side, and show increased anxiety. Then it stops temporarily, but after a while the situation repeats. And so it can last all day and all night. So that mom does not lose peace and strength, you need to immediately find and eliminate the cause of the accumulation of gases in the child.
1. Improper nutrition of a nursing mother
If the baby is breastfed, then the mother should remember from which products the gaziki tend to form. Increased gas formation in a newborn baby can occur when a nursing mother uses the following foods:
- flour products;
- legumes;
- White cabbage;
- carbonated drinks.
A large amount of sugar consumed by the mother can also cause the appearance of gas in the infant. It is also believed that tea with condensed milk improves lactation - it is not true, any warm drink, even plain water, increases lactation. And condensed milk is concentrated sucrose, when consumed, be prepared for the painful reaction of the baby.
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2. Incorrect attachment to the chest
When breastfeeding, you need to properly apply the baby to the chest. If you apply it incorrectly, the baby will take air. Also watch your posture while feeding, arrange the baby so that the baby’s head is above the torso.
Read how to apply to the chest
3. On artificial feeding, make sure that the nipple on the bottle is constantly filled with the mixture. Otherwise, the child will suck in air.
4. Additional causes of gas workers.Tight swaddling, tight gum on the diaper, crying and screaming baby.
How and how to help the child with the accumulation of jets?
- To avoid the occurrence of gas, you need before feedingspread the baby on the tummyor put the child on your lap. If you spread after feeding, then you need to do this a few hours after feeding.
- After feeding, hold (swear) the baby in a column.
- You can hold the child with a column, but not just a column, but pressing it to your chest.
- You can do massage (stroking the abdomen and pulling the legs to the tummy (bend the legs and hold for 10-20 seconds))
1. Massage
You can make your baby easy tummy massagestroking the tummy clockwise. No special efforts should be made, just careful movements with your fingers. After a while, the baby will calm down, the intestines will relax, and the gaziki will come out. Do not run to the pharmacy for medication without a doctor’s prescription. - A child can and should help himself, learn to do without drugs.
2. Vent pipe
The magic thing that can be purchased for a penny at any pharmacy. Lubricate the tip of the tube with oil / baby cream, and carefully insert the tube into the anus of the baby (put the baby under 6 months old, press the legs to the chest and hold, from 6 months and older put on the left barrel and press the legs); before the procedure, lay the oilcloth, as the baby's bowel movements may come out along with the gas. Absolutely wrong opinion that the tube is addictive. Having reached the age of three months, the child will learn to release gas engines himself, and from that moment on you will no longer need the tube.
Read more about gas pipe for the baby (instructions for use)
3. Enema
In an infant, gas workers are often accompanied constipation. If the baby has not had any bowel movements for more than two days and the baby is restless, then he should be helped to cleanse the intestines with an enema. You need to purchase the smallest in the pharmacy.
Heat boiled water to 40 degrees, draw an enema with water, and carefully enter the tip of the enema greased with cream to the child. Squeeze the baby’s ass for a couple of seconds so that the water has time to thin the feces.
Enema is a last resort, which should not be abused, because the intestinal tract of the child is still very tender.
We read:How to make an enema
4. Hot-water bottle
With the birth of a child, a heating pad should appear in your home (list of things) If you draw warm water into it and apply it to the baby’s tummy, it will soothe the pains, help the gaziki move in the intestines and freely exit. When buying, pay attention to salt warmers, as well as warmers with cherry pits. They are convenient to use and are more effective than conventional heating pads.
5. Dill water
From gazikov can help dill water, tea from fennel, chamomile broth or other medicines from gazikov, sold in pharmacies (espumisan, bebinos, sub simplex, babybalm. Read about medicines).
On the topic of abdominal pain in newborns:
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- Dill water for newborns
We did tummy massage for our baby and very rarely applied a water heating pad, it does not always help. Once the son could not calm down, he had to call a doctor, as a result they put an enema, after 40 minutes he slept a sweet dream.
That's right, the main thing is not to panic. In my family, my grandmother always gave advice in this case, use an enema. An old proven way that always helped.
I would have this article in due time! I gave my boy “Espumisan” from gas workers, but in my opinion this drug did not always help the baby. I also gave dill water, there was an effect for a while and my boy fell asleep for a couple of hours.
we are saved by a warm diaper on the tummy and even espumizan helps us.
I also don’t eat anything gas-forming and we do exercises on the fitball with the baby)) but all the same the gaziki do not pass completely. We are waiting for 3 months, they say, it should leave by itself.
We, too, if strong colic placed a warm diaper on our tummy and did a tummy massage in circular motions. Espumisan, babbot somehow didn't really help. Well, actually, yes, you just have to outgrow it while the baby learns to fart.
Your baby is ill and you roughly understand that the cause of this is gas formation in newborns. Well, let's try to consider the main reasons for the formation of gaziks, and how we behave to relieve the crumbs of suffering.
My baby is a month and 10 days old and the child knows very well how to fart), but this did not save us from colic. Even in the maternity hospital we “got acquainted” with gaziks. Cuplaton was advised before each feeding, he breaks the air bubbles and facilitates their exit. The child began to cry much less, but still the tummy tormented her, apparently when the effect of the drug weakens. Then they began to give Rothabiotic baby in a sachet with bacteria since we were on SV once a day. The result was pleased (the tummy bothered even less often), but the pediatrician advised Latsidokap 0.5ml per day. She began to cry only in the morning after sleep. So for us, this drug comes first. The price of each is certainly not small, but it is effective and safe enough for the baby.
Again stupid mothers in the comments, this time with enemas.
Children fart from birth, do not la la here. Tummy massage and knee flexion - that's all. The rest is mother's nutrition. Once you understand this, the colic will go away.
By the way, the list of gas-forming products here is incomplete.
“The first test can begin for mom even in the hospital” - oh yes, because in the hospital, for some reason, they feed only gas-generating products!
Soups are all with cabbage, garnished with barley, beets, cabbage, stewed fruit, and cocoa to top, so that the children do not sleep (my recent experience).