Tips for Common Feeding Issues

Spitting Up

Is Your Infant Spitting Up?

Babies commonly spit up after meals. Spitting up can occur because your infant may have swallowed air while feeding. She may have been overstimulated, overfed, or rushed through a feeding, or she may be responding to a change in the environment. Spitting up can also occur if the formula is flowing too fast into your baby's mouth.
 

Tip

  • Feed your baby before she becomes frantically hungry
  • Give her smaller and more frequent feedings.
  • Make each feeding as calm and relaxed as possible.
  • Burp her more often. Feed your infant for a few minutes, or a few ounces, and then stop and burp her.
  • Turn her bottle upside down to check the flow. It should come out one drop at a time, not a steady stream. Change the flow by adjusting the tightness of the bottle- top screw ring, or by changing to a slower flow nipple.
  • Hold your infant upright after each feeding.
  • If you are concerned about your infant's frequent spit up, ask your baby's doctor about Enfamil® Thickened A+® infant formula, clinically shown to reduce baby's spit up by over 40% *.
 

* Study used Enfamil A.R.® before the addition of DHA and ARA. Enfamil A.R.LIPIL® is compositionally similar to Enfamil® Thickened A+®. Study with infants who regurgitate frequently (5 or more regurgitations per day), comparing frequency of spit up after feeding Enfamil A.R. to the same babies at the beginning of the study.

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