{"id":5319,"date":"2009-09-02T07:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2009-09-02T07:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:20:42","slug":"buuurrrrppppp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/02\/buuurrrrppppp\/","title":{"rendered":"Buuurrrrppppp!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-burp\" I\u2019m actually quite new to this whole burping business<\/a>. Heck \u2013 prior to Hannah joining our family, I didn\u2019t know the implications of not burping babies at all, but quickly wised-up to it when Hannah first merlion-ed a feed.<\/p>\n

It can be quite a scene at home actually when that happens. If I happen to be at home but in the living room, Ling will call out \u201cDear, help!!!!\u201d, and I\u2019ll come scurrying into the study, slight limp not withstanding<\/a>, take a look at what the emergency is, then dash to Hannah\u2019s room and return armed with kitchen towels.<\/p>\n

So, apart from being a menial laborer, courier pigeon and delivery driver, one thing I\u2019ve been trying to help Ling also with is baby burping. And what a body of knowledge there is on this, online<\/a>. Lots of advice, tricks, sitting and burping postures and the like.<\/p>\n

The position that I\u2019m using for Hannah is typically the over the shoulder method. Yeah I\u2019m mindful that some babies find it harder to burp and belch when their tummies are resting against the shoulder, but we\u2019ve had good success with Hannah in this position.<\/p>\n

Burping Hannah can take anywhere between 1 minute to 20 minutes. And depending on how vigorously you\u2019re patting or stroking her back, there\u2019s also the risk of repetitive strain injury. The wrist starts aching after 5 minutes. Half the time we\u2019re lucky: Hannah will burp after a minute. On other occasions, it could take what seems like forever, and sometimes we\u2019d get no results even.<\/p>\n

As for the belch itself, we\u2019ve learned to grade Hannah\u2019s exhalations:<\/p>\n

Loud \u2013 BBBUURRRRPPPP<\/font>, can be heard from the kitchen<\/p>\n

Medium \u2013 b u r p, can be heard only in the same room<\/p>\n

Small \u2013 burp<\/span>. \u201cDarling, did you hear that? Was that a burp? I didn\u2019t hear. Can you tell\u2026???!\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also trying now to improve my posture in this: by figuring out how to both carry and burp Hannah using just one hand, and leave my other hand free to use the PC simultaneously. Not much luck so far though, but I\u2019m working on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m actually quite new to this whole burping business. Heck \u2013 prior to Hannah joining our family, I didn\u2019t know the implications of not burping babies at all, but quickly wised-up to it when Hannah first merlion-ed a feed. It<\/p>\n

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