did you burp when you was a baby?

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Just curious

I had trouble burping as a baby and was often uncomfortable and i didnt really burp properly until teens.

Did you burp as a baby?

I only learned how to burp about six months ago! I'm not even kidding! A lot of automatic reactions actually had to be learned with me, though. They were not automatic.
I had a gastroscopy for GI issues and I think that may have alerted my brain to where the problem was. For the first month or two I had to press sort of out and down at the base of my throat and concentrate on opening my throat to make it happen, but it's got easier the past few months. I'm still not great at it, can't do it very reliably, but I can do it now! Which is awesome, I used to get so embarrassed because - little known fact - if you can't burp, the pressure stays in the body for hours, and you get very loud "gurgling" going on which you can't control. I used to have to restrict eating, for example, to several hours before I went out, and lay horizontally so gasses wouldn't rise with nowhere to go, to avoid the embarrassing gurgling.
That's probably a lot more than you asked for. So no, didn't burp at all as a baby. Took me decades to learn how.

If I did, my parents never told me about it. I remember literally nothing from when I was a baby.

No, because I thought it was too rude.

Ha ha, kidding.

My parents never told me if I did, and it's embarrassing enough knowing I did other things that were a lot more gross and smelly and often without warning in the worst times and places, and my parents had to deal with all of that.

When I was a little older, however, I learned how to swallow lots of air so it could be released into a big disgusting burp which being a kid I found really funny. Drinking fizzy pop also did the trick. I would be careful not to do it around adults, though.

I think I did, as my mum has never said I didn't.

Why do some parents laugh their heads off when their baby burps? It's a natural every day thing to do. The poor baby looks around with a confused serious face wondering what all the fuss is about.

only when accompanied by throwing up, when i was a baby and still to this day. rather than burping i let out little bubbles over a longer span of time.

I was a little too young to remember if I did