[farahali]

Should mother stop breastfeeding if baby gets hiccups? Should mother continue breastfeeding if mother has hiccups?(it affects baby or not because if mother has hiccups her body shakes so maybe baby get disturbed} can mother cure baby hiccups through breastfeeding? How long should mother keep breastfeeding her baby? Till baby three or less more or more? Do baby gets hiccups after breastfeeding?

[pluckyflamingo]

I have a 3 month old and what I have read in books have said feeding your baby while they hiccup is perfectly fine. My daughter would actually stop hiccuping. And if the mother has hiccups don't stop feeding because of it, that will just disturb the baby even more. As long as the baby is getting fed the baby will be fine.

[DoulaLC]

Hiccups won't be a problem for mother or baby, and breastfeeding should continue as pluckyflamingo said.
Breastfeed baby as long as mother and baby both want to... there are many benefits for both mother and baby with long term breastfeeding. There is no age you have to stop, but sometimes baby decides, sometimes mother decides to wean from breastfeeding. Different cultures also will view how long a baby is breastfed differently, but it really is up to the mother and baby.

[J_9]

As an aside, I had a friend who decided it was time to stop breastfeeding when her son was sitting in a shopping cart and lifted her shirt right there in the grocery store.