Lots of baby hiccups at 35 weeks...

[Anonymous]

Is anyone experiencing this regularly? I have felt them very low between 4-6 times a day for about 3-5 minutes for probably the past 2 weeks. I always thought this was a good thing (like the baby is practicing breathing) but then I went and googled it (I know, I know FTM - back away from the google machine...) & now I am not so sure. Just wanted to hear if others were feeling the same thing.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Happened all the time with my first. She's a totally healthy 21 month old. I've felt them once or twice with my second (29 weeks along now), but don't expect to feel them regularly for a few more weeks.

You could ask your OB at the next appointment, but I wouldn't worry.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be worried about it.

[Anonymous]

Don't google!!!!! I made the same mistake and came across dr Jason Collins. My MFM flat out said he was off his rocker!

[Anonymous]

My DS had hiccups all the time for months. He's totally healthy.

[Anonymous]

Normal normal normal.

[Anonymous]

My baby is doing it right now and I feel it all the time. Same with my first. Nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous]

My water broke early (31 weeks) and I was in the hospital on bedrest for 3 straight weeks until i delivered. I had an ultrasound everyday and the ultrasound tech, the nurses and my daily OB visit loved to see/hear about those hiccups. It let them know that my DS was doing great (that and all the other monitoring). It is a practice breath of sorts and those hiccups helped me keep a high biophysical profile score and kept the pregnancy going vs my OB inducing. I went into labor on my own, DS is fantastic and still hiccups like crazy at 7 months while smiling.

[Anonymous]

My DS had constant hiccups around that age - felt like I'd swallowed a vibrating cell phone. OB said he wouldn't be surprised if DS had them a lot in the newborn stage, and he did. He also had acid reflux, so maybe it was all related? In any event, they faded away and he's a perfect two-year-old with no health concerns to speak of!

[Anonymous]

My baby hiccuped a lot in the womb and then immediately in the newborn period. I highly recommend having gripe water on hand. Oftentimes the hiccups would keep DS from going to sleep, and the gripe water made them go away roughly two times out of three. The swing also helped distract him from the hiccups.

[Anonymous]

Put it this way- would you be worried about YOURSELF if you got hiccups 3 times in one day? Probably not. So why would it be a worry for the baby? Don't Google things like that; all you'll get are hits for threads from paranoid people who think hiccups and a bite of Greek yogurt two days past its expiration date are going to kill their fetus.

[Anonymous]

I'm 35 weeks and at my last appointment I mentioned that the baby had the hiccups. My OB said that's a really good sign, and it's sort of practice for building his breathing muscles. He also said to expect them to become more common in the next couple of weeks.

The baby got them right before I went for an ultrasound at 34 weeks and when we saw him, he was sucking his thumb -- maybe that's how he soothes himself afterwards!

[Anonymous]

My first daughter had them in utero all.the.time and when she was a newborn. Now she's a perfectly healthy four year old. I swear I get hiccups more than the average person, but I am completely, ridiculously healthy, as are both my kids. I found the hiccups when pregnant quite irritating though. It was kind of like one of those eyelid or random muscle twitches.

[Anonymous]

OP here, thanks for all the reassuring responses! I knew I was traveling too far down the google rabbit hole but sometimes its hard to stop. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

In utero, my 5 yo DD would hiccup and soon after I'd be really hungry. Now, when she starts hiccuping, I know I need to feed her something soon. Pretty cool connection.