When babies swallow, they will gulp down an awful lot of wind with the milk. This is particularly bottlefed babies, much lesser breastfed babies. All winding really means is holding the baby up, so that the wind can come to the top of the stomach and then be burped off again.
You don't actually have to do any patting or any thing fancy, you just hold them up giving a chance for the baby to burp, about halfway through the feet. It isn't really a big deal to be honest and some babies who are colicky babies, may need to be winded a bit more.
Quite often we get babies coming to the world who are screaming and, I'll say to the nurses, can you work out why this baby is screaming and, they may will say, it's because they're actually quite windy and if you wind them well during their feed, they settle and they're much happier.
You hold the baby just either over your shoulder and just hold them up there for two, three, four minutes until they do a little burp, or you can just hold them up on your lap, just hold them ahead up on your lap. Some babies, parents will find, wind in a better position. They'll wind better up sitting on the lap or they'll wind better over shoulder. But you know you winded them, because you hear the burp. It's as simple as that.
Many children will do what we call posseting which is a little bit of milk will come out and will trickle down their front, not a serious vomit. If a child is vomiting every time they feed, and it's a serious amount, you need to talk to your health visitor about that and maybe about to your GP. What matters if children vomit, is whether or not they're gaining weight in the long term, but many, many children do vomit a little bit with their feeds.
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