Cara Mengatasi Perut Kembung pada Bayi: Tips Dokter Anak

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So, ooh, just got one. So first thing we're gonna do is rub down on the baby's belly, just maybe about a minute.

You're gonna go in a clockwise motion with your hands, and same thing, just kind of rubbing down.

Hi. And sometimes he kind of smiles. Because it feels good. Okay.

Now, we're going to go back and forth maybe 20 times.

Now we're gonna do some circles, just in the same position.

10 the other way, and then we're gonna do some bicycles. So, okay.

Ooh. Oh, yeah. And push down, and I'm not pushing hard, you guys, like at all.

I'm just kind of putting a little bit of pressure on his legs.

And it's getting a lot of gas out. Say bye-bye, guys.

Gassy stomachs can be uncomfortable for our kiddos, and I'm a doctor of pediatrics, so let's talk about it. First off, I want to say what this mom was doing was absolutely incredible.

You could see that she's very attentive to her child, and as she's doing all of these steps, she's looking at the child in the face and making it kind of a fun bonding time for her and the child, and a pretty stinky bonding time.

But either way, it looked like they were having fun doing it.

The child was laughing and smiling, and so was the mom.

But does this actually work? In short, it may help.

Now, the very gentle rubbing of the stomach at the beginning is likely relaxing the child, which then will allow them to kind of pass gas more easily, but it's likely not facilitating gas that much.

But now, in terms of the moving of the hips and the bicycles, that can facilitate the movement of gas out of the body, as we saw multiple times there.

In terms of pushing both of the hips downward and kind of pushing pressure on the stomach, I'd be very careful with this, and as the mom said, do it very gently.

But something that you could do instead of pushing down on the hips like that would just be do some tummy time.

By doing tummy time, the baby's weight will be putting the pressure on the stomach, which then could kind of push the gas outward as well.

Outside of this great bonding time that this mother showed us, there are a couple other things that we could do.

One would be to slow the flow of the nipple.

Sometimes babies swallow so much air that that can make them gassy as well.

Two would be try to remove the air from the bottle.

There are some bottles that are designed to be vented, collapsible, or angled that are supposed to help with that.

Three, before the age of four months old, babies can have a hard time burping, so making sure to burp your baby frequently throughout the feed and after the feed can also be beneficial.

Number four, if you're using formula, we have to shake it a lot, which will create a lot of bubbles within that formula mixture.

Allowing that bottle to settle and some of those bubbles to pop and to disperse can help with the gas.

Another option would be to try to use the ready-to-feed formulas that you do not have to shake aggressively to mix the formula, but those could get really costly.

And lastly, a question I get asked a lot, should I get the gas drops over the counter?

Ultimately, it doesn't show that there's harm in taking them, but there may not be the best benefit either.

So what I generally recommend is only buy the ones that the manufacturer guarantees money-back guarantee if it does not work. Again, the studies do not show that they are that effective, and they're pretty costly, so I'd only get them if there's a money-back guarantee.

Babies are gassy, and some of these tips and tricks may help.

Comment below with any tips or tricks that you have.