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"Spitting up" or regurgitation, is very common during a baby's first few months of life. About 40% of normal, healthy babies spit up, usually right after feeding. The liquid your baby regurgitates may look very similar to the milk she was just fed; or, if it has been partially digested, it may appear curdled and smell like sour milk. Though it may seem like your baby is spitting up a lot of milk, that's not likely to be the case. The liquid spit up during regurgitation is usually made up mostly of saliva and gastric juices, and only a small amount of milk.

For human, there is an elastic-like muscle at the entry to the stomach closes like a valve to prevent liquids from being pushed back up. For young babies, however, this valve or sphincter isn't fully effective until between 6 and 12 months of age. Since it isn't fully developed yet, the valve is easily pushed back by the contents of the stomach - resulting in regurgitation or spitting up.(Summer did have the same problem in her earlier month)

So to minimize your baby's regurgitation, you could try the following:

1)give your baby less to drink during a feeding, but feed her more frequently. And don't move your baby about too vigorously after a feeding.

2)how you position your baby during the twenty minutes after a feeding is important. Any upright position, such as holding your baby to your shoulder (as you would to burp her), will help reduce regurgitation.

Good Luck