Does solids = really bad gas and less often poop?

LisaF23

DD is EBF and ever since starting solids twice a day she has really horrific smelling gas. Also, all day you can tell she wants to poop and is pushing but nothing comes out for a few days. Then on like the 2nd or 3rd day she finally poops and it explodes out of her diaper...there is SO much! I'm used to her going like 2-3 times a day and now she goes like 2-3 times a week! Is this normal??

Lolita0626

Did you start by giving her rice cereal? It can be constipating. 

JewelzNBean

I'm not sure if it is normal, but it is what is happening here!!

X started solids on Jan 3, and didn't poop again until the 11th, and then not again until today! Both were terrible explosions! As in, bye bye, diaper shirt - never to be seen again! It went right in the garbage along with the diaper!Horrific is the exact word that I would use to describe his gas!!!

ETA: We started with rice cereal, but changed to oatmeal 3 days after that.

JOEBunny

DS did not poop for 5 days when he was starting solids.  It got better after about a month.  By 8 months, he was pooping once a day.  Now, at 10 months, he sometimes poops 2 or 3 times a day.

FirefightersBride

what kind of solids is your baby getting? I started DS on rice cereal and it stopped him up. Once we got him on oatmeal in the morning and veggies at night...things definitely were moving again. The oatmeal was the key!

ljlkm

This is pretty much exactly what happened with DS.  The gas got a lot better after a couple of weeks.  And he still only poops every couple of days, but there isn't a lot of straining.

LisaF23

vjrun21:

Did you start by giving her rice cereal? It can be constipating. 

 No, we didn't do rice cereal. Just started with veggies and fruit.

Heather577

My DD started pooping all the time after we started solids.  Like, 5-6x per day.

BugLuv

No - if anything he is pooping WAY more - we started with Avocados, and have done oatmeal, squash, bananas (which he won't eat) and pears, poop central here...

 

rebus82

I don't know about with cereal, but I think "real" food is actually better for poops. DS used to be horribly constipated (maybe once every 3 days with terrible straining) but once he started fruits and veggies he's been going at least once a day, except once where he went a couple days between.

The gas ... well, it's about the same. You can only get so much worse than terrible