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Hey everyone. My mother in law and her mother both told me last night that a good way of getting rid of my baby's painful hiccups is to dip the very tip of her pacifier in sugar and the hiccups would go away. Well, I thought it sounded strange, but this morning, my daughter had really bad hiccups that just would not go away no matter how I tried burping her. So, I tried that sugar thing and it worked! My only concern is, is it safe for a 1month old to be having any amount of sugar, however small? Has anyone else heard of this, and if so, what is your opinion?
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 | Hi - October 9 |
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Don't know if it is safe for your one month old, but a spoonful of sugar works for children and adults for hiccups. It makes whatever is causes hiccups to go back to normal. It's much better than holding your breath to get them to stop!
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 | ray - October 9 |
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when did hiccup get painful? they are annoying but they wont hurt a baby. why woudl you give her sugar? you people are so crazy. sugar is worse than hiccups.
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I was told you should never dip a pacifier in sugar, because you can ruin their teeth. However, my gran said that her mother did used to dip a give used to wrap sugar in a piece of muslin for her babies to suck. She had 13 kids (madness!) and they all had perfect teeth. In fact, my gran is 83, and still has all her own teeth. So, I don't know. I wouldn't do it, just in case.
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Oh boy! I'm really tired! I hope you understood what I was trying to say there, because I'm too tired to re-type it. :)
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I have been told you can dip the pacifier in anything, its not what they are sucking on but how they are suckin. Try dipping the paci in formula or even just some water and let her suck on that. Good luck!
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ray, I asked a question about sugar and hiccups. I DID NOT ask you to give my baby a medical eval. I think I can tell when the hiccups are bothering my own baby. If you can't answer a question respectfully and helpfully, then maybe you shouldn't answer it at all. K?
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If you dont like a response, then maybe you should refrain from asking any more questions. The end of your posted question asks "what is your opinion". Maybe it should have said "tell me what I want to hear"! Hey, Ray gave you some free advice. Take it or leave it, but dont b___h about it!
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Jill, are you serious? It looks like you asked......... "My only concern is, is it safe for a 1month old to be having any amount of sugar, however small? Has anyone else heard of this, and if so, what is your opinion?" AM I WRONG?
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Sometimes feeding the baby a little more (b___st or bottle) will cure hiccups, too.
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I just do what we like to call the "Top her off" method. If she gets the hiccups, we just give her a small amount of formula back in her bottle and the hiccups go away within minutes of her sucking on it.
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 | P - October 11 |
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Breastfeeding always got rid of my daughters. She gets them all the time but they never seem to bother her. I would never ever give her sugar or anything else of the sort.
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It's not the sugar or whatever else you dip the pacifier in; Dipping the pacifier makes the baby swallow. It's the swallowing that makes the hiccups go away - that's why, as an adult, you drink water...because you're swallowing something.
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