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🫁 Why do we get hiccups?

Everyone knows that little discomfort that arrives without warning: a strange sound, a little jump, and it's off for a ...
Baby hiccups are normal, harmless, and should resolve within 15 minutes to an hour.
Hiccups occur when your diaphragm contracts in a spastic, involuntary manner. You can get rid of hiccups by stopping the spasms.
At one point or another, most of us have been woken up by a nightmare or an intense urge to go to the bathroom. Waking up because you have the hiccups may be a less familiar middle-of-the-night ...