$%*!@@!#$% hiccups!

[honey_mustard]

Ethan gets the hiccups about 2-4 times everyday. That's okay. No big deal, right? But he gets them usually 5 minutes after I've laid him down happily fed, burped, changed, and asleep. They wake him up every time. They last for 20 minutes, and he cries and cries because they shake him all around. They are crazy stong. It drives me nuts, because they

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[kelglitter]

OK... well... this is going to sound nuts, but since you're already working on toilet-training...

Hiccups are when your diaphragm goes into spasms of contractions. Singers who have good control of their diaphragms can often just do some breathing or singing and get them to go away on the spot. This is also why holding your breath sometimes works - in refraining from breathing you can sometimes control your diaphragm. (But most people have poor diaphragm control so they don't actually manage to get rid of them that way.)

Maybe getting him to imitate you with a singing or blowing type thing before he goes to sleep will help him get better control of his diaphragm so that hiccups don't happen. Like maybe singing a lullaby and encouraging him to make noise with you. He's probably too young for that to work (I know nothing about babies and the ages at which they can or can't do something) but it might be worth a try.

[quirky_layne]

Yeah, so there with you.

[vip1]

Weird. I always thought they said hiccups didn't bother babies....Lila used to get them when she was tired, so I would just hold her until they stopped (coincidentally, when she also fell asleep), so I don't really know any advice to help keep the hiccups from waking the poor little guy up. :-\ Hopefully this is a short-lived phase....

[beyond_eden]

I know a lot of parents who's babies get hiccups immediately to 10 minutes after breastfeeding. Most of them grow out of it. A lot of people I know have found pacifiers offer some relief.

[auddiegirl7]

but they're soooooo cuuuuuuuuute!!!!
haha