To burp or not to burp ...

[dueat44]

If your little one falls asleep during a feed, do you burp her and risk waking her up, or just tiptoe to the cot?? I feel guilty if I don't rub and pat, but she always wakes and takes an age to settle ...

[deaconblue]

We learned the hard way to always burp. It's so heartbreaking when you try to sneak off and then they wake up with wind. Ds is 1 now and we still give him a rub on the back after his last feed, if he's asleep he doesn't even stir when we pat now.

[allthegearnoidea]

Hi dueat44,
i recently discussed this with HV, she said that if baby is comfortable then no need to wind, it isn't necessarily a problem. if baby needs winding and is bothered by it thn do try to wind. i was brave and decided to try this method, instead of being obsessive about whther or not a burp came up. so now if my LO has fallen asleep i put him down, and he stays asleep no winding at all and is happily settled!
interestingly she also added that the process of winding is a very 'western' practice and throughout most of the world people just don't do it!
in my experince i found i was winding unnecessarily, baby was fine and i was probably making it an issue by jiggling him around just after he had fed! hope that helps.

[maxbear]

I rarely winded my dd, she didn't seem to need it. My ds is 7 weeks old and sometimes needs to be winded, I can tell if he needs it by looking at him, if the colour of the skin around his mouth is whitish then he will always burp if I pat his back otherwise i don't. All babies are different you just have to do whatever suits you.