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 ...

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.

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.

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.