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Newborn regurgitation
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Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
Regurgitation of a small amount of air and stomach contents, observed very often in children in the first year of life. This phenomenon, associated with the structural features of the esophagus and stomach in infants, can accompany each feeding. Regurgitation usually stops over time.
When sucking, a baby sometimes swallows a lot of air (aerophagia). It is observed in restless, excitable and therefore greedily sucking children. It is advisable to stimulate belching (the release of gas or gas together with food gruel from the stomach into the oral cavity) during feeding, otherwise the stretching of the stomach with air will interfere with the absorption of food, contribute to a false feeling of satiety, and also regurgitation. Aerophagia can also be caused by hunger, too tight breasts of the mother, improper feeding technique, etc.
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