Constipated bf baby
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our lb was the same when he was younger, our midwife said it's normal for them not to poo for 2 weeks, i was very shocked at this information. My new little baby has been constipated and we've been doing exercises with his legs like he's riding a bike and putting his toes to his nose this was advised by the midwife and it's helped a lot we also give tummy massages x
If she isn’t uncomfortable then let her be. EBF babies are known to go up to a couple weeks. If she’s eating well, having good number of wet diapers, and isn’t uncomfortable then just leave her. 💖
Glycerin suppositories work wonders! They have some on Amazon! My baby has a severe cows milk allergy and went through 6 different formulas!
She’s exclusively breastfed and been on lactulose since last Saturday but still nothing it’s all very stressful but these comments are reassuring
My newest baby just went 7 days without poo. I replaced one breastmilk bottle with a formula bottle and he pooped finally. Had to do the same when I had my second kid too.
My EBF baby went up to 24 days without pooing. Suppositories worked for him, the laxatives didn’t work. We saw GP/ A&E and paediatricians and they all seemed fine as long as his tummy was nice and soft. I wasn’t fine with it though (stressed like you) and from trial and error I figured out he had an egg allergy and was reacting through my milk. I stopped eating egg and he started pooing every day
Both my kids are exclusively bf and they both went a week or 2 without a bowel but when they do go they go. My 3 month old just saw her doctor today and he had no concerns with her bowel schedule
Is she acting uncomfortable? Ebf get very efficient at processing the breast milk. If she's acting uncomfortable, you can do what we called "squatty potty poses" where we held our little one up to our chests with his knees up and apart to his chest and we'd rock a lot. Ours was combo fed so he'd poop like every 3 days at this age, but he had lots of gas problems and a hard time with his poops and this really helped.
@Miriam not really a little bit every now and again but I don’t know how much of it is to do with the lactulose as it can cause stomach cramps and gas etc x
@Emily I bet that wasn’t easy to figure out, maybe I should start a food diary x
Do leg exercises with her and the bowel movements will just start releasing….
My daughter when she was around the same age went a long time without pooping as well. She is EBF. I bought glycerin syringes, put one in her bum (doesn’t need to go all the way in) and it took less than 5 minutes and she did a massive poop