Is it ok to let baby sleap after feeding instead of burping her?

Question

I do it all the time and sometimes she burps after she wakes up sometimes not. She's three months old and falls asleap on the bed when I nurse her. She's a light sleaper anyway so I hate to wake her.

Answer 1

I myself try to burp my daugther until my hand hurts (3-5 minutes) because I am afraid that she will spit up and choke if i don't.  this is probably not a rational fear but its just one that i have.  you can always try infants mylicon if you are worried about gas.

Answer 2

Well if she isnt waking and crying of gas pains..then it might be fine for her. My sons tummy couldnt tolerate that until about 4 months, and then I did the same as you, and let him sleep. Now I dont really ever burp him..he just gets them up on his own. He'll be 5 months in a week.

Answer 3

Then can get bad gas or get sick if you don't burp them.  Then you'll have to put up with a cranky baby.

Answer 4

its up to you, as long as she's not getting gassy from it.  I know sometimes if I dont burp  my 3 month old son and lay him down to bed, he will act as if he's in pain when he wakes up so I always try to burp him after every 2 oz or 3 even if it takes forever!  he's a hard sleeper though.

Answer 5

Are you breastfeeding? If you are then she will not be getting as much air which is what causes the wind so its not such a problem if she falls asleep and as you say she is bringing it up naturally. I used to do this a lot especially if I had nursed on the bed and my son was fine. You can usually tell if your baby has got a lot of wind.However if you are using a bottle, formula or expressed then you should make sure she is winded properly as she could get terrible tummy ache.

Answer 6

Human babies are meant to sleep with their moms and fall asleep during nursing.  I don't know a single mom that co-sleeps are burps her baby during the night.

With my first burping never worked anyway, it just upset him.  So I would just carry him in an upright or semi-upright position (sleeping or not) for 5-15 minutes and he'd either burp or he wouldn't.  But I never bothered with that at night.

Answer 7

if you dont try to burp her when she wakes up she will be cranky until she does burp

Answer 8

Perfectly fine.  if she is uncomfortably gassy because of not burping, believe me, she will wake up and let you know.  If my son falls asleep while nursing, I never wake him to burp him and he is a huge burper/spitter-upper otherwise.

Answer 9

My 2 month old always falls asleep and doesn't burp. I try but she never burps! :( She has no problems and once she wakes up, I pick her up and she burps on her own.  She may spit up a little in her crib, but I lay her on a burp towl while she sleeps.

Answer 10

I assume by nursing you are breastfeeding, so I wouldn't worry about burping her.  Most breastfed babies don't get a lot of air when drinking.  If she's content to fall asleep, then she's not uncomfortable so leave her.  I nursed both of my kids to sleep all the time and never had any problems from not burping.

Answer 11

It's fine.  Your baby will let you know if she has to burp.  Babies who nurse to sleep often don't have to burp.  It's not the same as a bottle.  Bottle babies almost always need to burp, but breastfed babies often drift off with no burp and no problems.

Oh yeah, it's possible to drape your baby over your side for a burp, but it sounds like you don't need to worry about it.  Enjoy it, it's so precious when they nurse to sleep.

Answer 12

I just took a breastfeeding class and the nurses said that it's not even necessary to burp breastfeeding babies. It's more recommended for formula babies. They said you can, but it's probably not important most of the time. So don't worry! Call your local La Leche League for any problems.

Answer 13

the only need to burp young children is if they can't burp for themselves. Some children don't even produce gas in their stomachs from feeding, others produce a lot and then get gas pains or vomit a little if they aren't burped.

You are one of the lucky mum's who don't seem to have that worry :)

Answer 14

My 4 year old and 2 year old are still alive and they never had issues with this, so I'd say it's okay! As everyone else said, because she's breastfed it's not as necessary unless she looks in pain. Otherwise, at 3 months, they tend to be able to handle the burping thing themselves (at least my experience with breastfed babes), so there too is no worry to make sure she is burped!