Who gets hiccups?
Although babies are inclined to hiccup more often than older children and adults, we all experience episodes of hiccups from time to time. Some people are more predisposed to hiccupping than others. For a small number of people repeated and/or prolonged bouts of hiccupping can be a real problem. Babies hiccup even before birth. A pregnant woman can often recognize when her unborn baby is hiccupping. One theory on the reason for this is that hiccupping has the purpose of assisting to preparean infant’s lungs for life outside the womb.Hiccupping is extremely common for newborn babies. Repeated bouts of hiccups generally rapidly decrease with age and have often disappeared by the time a baby is 6 or 9 months old.
