July 10th, 2009 Graig
because a newborn baby’s organs are still developing they tend to experience hiccups on a far more frequent occasion that toddlers or adults do. LL gets hiccups about five or six times a day, and they tend to last for about 5 - 10 minute spans (apparently it’s even normal for them to last up to half an hour or as short as two minutes). There’s no “cure” for hiccups and they tend to bother the parents more than the baby (at first, but as they start creating air bubbles in LL’s stomach, she starts getting upset).
Unlike when I hiccup, LL doesn’t tear up. That may be because they don’t start developing tears until two or three weeks old and they don’t start developing visible, dripping crying tears until 7-8 month (you’d notice irritated, red eyes if they weren’t producing any at all).
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