Burping baby after breastfeeding lying down

[LondonKiwi123]

My baby is 6 weeks old and we have finally gotten him happy to sleep in his bedside cot instead of his bed.

To make the nights easier (he's still up 4-5 times) I'd like to try BF lying down. I did it a couple of times when he was a only a few days old, but when we had some latching problems I forgot that it was an option until now!

Now that I feel established with BF I'd like to try again. What I wonder though is how you wind your baby after the feed? Would you have to sit up anyway? My DS is really hard to burp and I hate to see him all squeaky and uncomfortable with trapped wind. So I try winding after each feed but...admit I can get lazy or don't try as long as I could when I'm half asleep.

So any tips about winding after a lying down feed, or just about feeding lying down, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

I just didn't burp him. During the day when I fed upright more often I would hold upright but at night I never worried about it - if he was awake for a nappy change anyway and seemed like he needed it I might have but not otherwise. Feeding lying down is great!

DD seems fine not being winded at night, but i guess it depends on the baby.

I wish I could crack BFing lying down - the angles always seem wrong to me.

If mine were happy after a lying down feed, which they generally demonstrated by falling asleep, I didn't bother.

I didn’t burp my breastfeed 4 babies either. We were told they didn’t need it. A good patch meant no wind was being swallowed, whereas a bottle means you gulp more air in.

DD usually fell asleep feeding lying down so I didn't bother, but if she looked like she needed it I think I used to prop her over my side to do it. I think that was a fair bit later than six weeks though. She was a right pain to wind to start with and DH was much better at it than me, so I used to make him do it so I could stay lying down!

I'm the same. I either don't burp them if we both fall asleep or I pat their back whilst they are lying down or kind of prop them up over me, so I'm still lying down, burp and lay them back down. I find that feeding on your side at night tends to mean that they have shorter feeds so are less windy, or they fall asleep their side so are less uncomfortable.
I think feeding lying down is a complete game changer once you crack it, especially when they can latch themselves on and you don't properly wake up.

Didn't bother winding mine either

Thanks for the replies everyone! Sounds like the consensus is that it's ok to skip the burping.

@Frlrlrubert DH is also better at burping DS so I love the idea of handing him over at night! Unfortunately he's on the sofa when I'm in bed and vice versa because shifts seem to be the only way we both get enough sleep atm.

@junobug did you find that the shorter feeds lying down meant that your baby would then wake up sooner for their next feed? Having said that, I don't think there's such a correlation for DS cos his sleeps get shorter and shorter towards the morning even though he seems to feed the same amount (hard to be sure though, of course).