burping or not

I stopped burping Alana sometime a little earlier than six months. It was after a midwife told me that in Europe they don’t birp the babies at all (and think its mighty strange we go around slapping our little ones on the back). I find if she needs to birp she works it up on her own. Of course she wasn’t a spitter.

I can’t get Cooper to burp most of the time these days. He usually burps on his own and 1 or 2 after he has eaten, which of course still brings back formula and such, but he arches so bad when we try to burp him that we have almost given up. I try usually at the end but only for a minute or 2 depending on how much he is arching or crying, b/c in the long run that is more harmful than him not being burped in my opinion.