Magic tips to burp at night

[nightlarking]

18do DS is pretty good at burping during/after a feed during the day, but for some reason is impossible at night! Even if he's sleepy/asleep during the day, he can often get his wind up.

Without a burp, he's prone to a projectile vomit & my bed linen is about 75% baby sick at this point (I will get round to changing it at some point )

I have tried all sorts;

• sitting upright and rubbing/patting back
• putting him on my shoulder
• laying him down with legs at right angles for a couple of minutes then sitting up right
• sitting him upright for 20 mins or so before laying him back down.

Does anyone have any fail safe winding tricks?! Or do I just continue running the nightly sick gauntlet and hope he grows out of it? It's turning the night feed into a 1 to 2 hour affair and I'd really like some more sleep!

I used to sit ds up, put the flat of my hand on his spine and sort of push the middle of his back in so that he was sitting straight up. Enormous long slow burp resulted!

He was exactly the same as your baby. No burp.... 🤮

There's a method where you sit them on your knee then rotate their torso in a circle and that always got a burp out of DD, and didn't wake her too much compared to back patting. Hang on and I'll find the YouTube video of it

Have you tried bicycling their legs, or the “tiger in the tree” hold?

Walk up and down stairs. It hard work in the middle of the night.

Are you sitting as upright in bed at night as in during the day? If not put a chair in your room to help.

Sit them up straight and wiggle and bend their torso a bit. Much more efficient than back patting.