If you feel burping is helpful to your baby, then keep doing what you’re doing. If trying to burp your baby after every feed is stressing you or your baby out, then you don’t have to keep doing it.
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Babies should never sleep on couches, sofas, stuffed armchairs or an incline. Co-sleeping is a bad idea, too.
When there is no “village” to help raise a child, parents often turn to baby books for guidance — but they don’t always hold the best advice.
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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PhD Researcher in Biological Anthropology, Yale University
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Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University