What can I do to ease spitting up?

Try these tips:

• Keep your baby upright. Keep your baby's head higher than the rest of the body for each feeding. Keep your baby upright for 30 minutes after each feeding. Don't do active play or use an infant swing right after feeding.
• Don't overfeed. Feed your baby smaller amounts more often.
• Burp your baby more. Burping during and after each feeding can keep air from building up in your baby's stomach.
• Watch what you eat. If you're breastfeeding, your baby's healthcare professional might suggest not eating dairy or certain other foods.
• Keep tobacco smoke away from your baby. Tobacco smoke adds to gastrointestinal reflux in adults. Besides maybe making your baby's spitting up worse, being around smoke is bad for the baby's health in many ways.

Even if your baby spits up, put your baby to sleep on the back. This is to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, also called SIDS. Don't put your baby to sleep on the stomach to try to keep the baby from spitting up.