Experts aren't sure why young
babies hiccup so much; some say it's due to a miscommunication between the brain and the diaphragm, the abdominal muscle that controls breathing.
Why do newborns and
babies hiccup so often?
Not exact matches
Many end up shaking
so hard and become
so distraught that once their parents realize that CIO is not going to work, the
baby is shaking uncontrollably and
hiccuping, too distressed to sleep and too distraught to be calmed down even by a loving parent.
So in the same way a laugh, sneeze or
hiccup is a sound shared by us all, the sounds your
baby makes are also universal and not dependent on a specific culture, accent or race.
The
hiccups don't usually bring any trouble or extreme discomfort for the
baby,
so there's nothing to fret about.
JEN GRAHAM: Yeah, I mean, because you know, when we have
hiccups, we feel uncomfortable but
baby just really, their little systems are just not completely developed yet,
so they turn to get
hiccups a lot, and it doesn't really affect them at all.