My baby hasn't defecated for two days. Is this normal?
It is said that breast-fed babies will keep their stomachs, and it doesn't matter if they don't pull for 5 or 6 days. Is it true?/You don't say.
Poop is a barometer of baby's health. Thin? Fuck? Stop pulling? Rado? Everyone is worried.
In fact, the baby's stomach is still developing, and it is normal to have irregular bowel movements every day, so we can't judge whether he has loose bowels or constipation.
So how to judge, is it correct? Nana will share it today, half a small bench, and listen for 5 minutes!
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How many times does the baby defecate every day to be normal? Sometimes, sometimes.
The number of times the baby defecates every day is really not accurate, so it is a reference for novice parents.
Because normal adults usually defecate once a day, but the baby's digestive system is not yet mature, and the digestive ability of food, intestinal peristalsis and nerve control ability of defecation are all developing, and the number of defecations every day is long or short.
For example:
The frequency of defecation decreases with age.
In the first week of life, babies pull at least four times a day, and three times a day when they are 1 year old. The frequency of defecation is similar to that of adults when they are 4 years old, and it is 1 time a day.
The frequency of defecation during lactation is irregular.
In the lactation stage, the baby sometimes pulls 7-8 times a day, even more than 10 times, sometimes only pulls 1 ~ 2 times, sometimes pulls 1 time for a few days or a week or two, and most of them are normal.
After the baby starts to eat complementary food at the age of half a year, the stool will gradually take shape, and the number of defecations will gradually stabilize every day.
By the age of 1 year, many babies will have a stable frequency of defecation, about 3 times a day.
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You can't judge constipation or diarrhea by the number of stools.
Many parents will judge whether the baby is constipated or has loose bowels by the frequency of defecation, which is actually inaccurate.
Why?
Because there are no accurate figures! Even if the baby does not have any digestive problems, his defecation frequency is constantly changing.
You should judge whether the baby is constipated or has loose bowels by whether the stool is dry or thin. For details, please refer to the Bristol poop classification below for understanding.
This method can teach you to distinguish between good and bad stools!
Infants in general lactation stage:
Normal poop is mostly the sixth kind, like peanut butter paste, which is shapeless.
Occasionally, it will dry up, and the fifth irregular block poop or the fourth irregular strip poop will appear.
These types of poop are very soft and can be discharged smoothly without causing constipation.
But if the baby's stool is as hard as 1, 2, 3, it means he is constipated.
If the baby's stool changes from the sixth kind of even paste stool to the seventh kind of watery stool, it means that he may have diarrhea.
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Three conditions are often mistaken for constipation.
In fact, the incidence of hard defecation of babies within half a year old is very low.
When the baby has the following three situations, it is often mistaken for constipation, but it is not.
The first case: the interval between defecation is very long.
As mentioned above, the frequency of defecation during lactation is very irregular, sometimes it takes several days or weeks 1.
The stool is soft and there is no uncomfortable performance. This is not constipation, but the baby's digestive system is immature.
You don't have to worry, and you don't need to give him any medicine to promote defecation.
The second situation: defecation is very difficult or crying for a long time.
If the baby has to force or cry for more than ten minutes to discharge soft stool, it will return to normal after defecation. This is not constipation, but a unique "defecation difficulty" in infancy.
This is because the baby's neural control of defecation is still developing, and it is temporarily impossible to coordinate the process of increasing intra-abdominal pressure, and at the same time relax the pelvic floor muscles, which makes it difficult for him to defecate.
This situation usually occurs at 1 month after the baby is born, and will relieve itself after a few weeks. You can hold your baby's calf and pedal his bike to facilitate his defecation.
But if the baby is accompanied by vomiting, bloating, little or no breastfeeding, no weight gain, bloody stool, etc. It is best to go to the hospital for examination.