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Constipation - No BM in 2 days

scharle3scharle3 member
in May 2015 Moms

My baby has not had a BM since Saturday morning. He has been eating pretty good and having wet diapers. Saturday afternoon he slept from 2:00-6:45, I was kinda worried, and that night he was kinda restless, he would sleep for every 2 hours and then wake up and repeat the same schedule. Last night he slept ok, but still has not had a BM. All along I was giving him gas drops and he was passing gas, but just not having a BM. I told daycare and they mentioned about talking to Dr about giving baby a little pear juice. I had never heard of that before and I'm waiting to call the Dr to ask what to do. Anyone else have this problem and have tried pear juice on a 11 week old baby

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Re: Constipation - No BM in 2 days

  • CanadaMom17CanadaMom17 member
    edited August 2015
    What does he eat?  Breastfed/breastmilk babies don't necessarily poop every day.  My lo has reduced her poops to often one every third day, and she does get restless just before she poops. Then the poop makes up for having missed a day or two!  ;)
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  • scharle3scharle3 member
    He is breastfed, but he is very irritable at times and I believe its because his stomach hurt, so to me that is not normal.
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  • MrsWhiteToBeMrsWhiteToBe member
    Yeah my baby has only been pooping every other day. Sometimes gas drops can give you an upset stomach.
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  • kremerj1kremerj1 member
    Our dr encourages pedialight when we have the same thing happen. Only an oz, it's supposed to hydrate and loosen the stool.
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  • ballinbaby15ballinbaby15 member
    When my LO was constipated, my doctor told me to give her an ounce of water, give her a warm bath, and to use a rectal thermometer to do recital stimulation. It worked pretty quickly!
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  • rae430rae430 member
    If he seems uncomfortable, you can put some Vaseline on the head of a q-tip and put it in his rectum (just the cotton part!!) and circle it a couple times. Usually helps to get things moving. DH had to do this with our LO yesterday and it worked within a minute- he was MUCH happier after that!
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  • ali0608ali0608 member
    For babies, not pooping in 2 days is not constipation. Call your doctor. But I wouldn't do anything without dr approval.

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  • scharle3scharle3 member
    Daycare called me this morning and said he had a poopy. I'm wondering now, if drinking from the bottles  cause him to poop, bc BF this past weekend he didn't have a BM.
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  • CanadaMom17CanadaMom17 member
    Breastfed babies, either bottle or breast do not necessarily poop every day.  Ask your doctor.  Anywhere up to 7 days in between can be normal.  I don't think delivery system matters.  Basically, since everything in breast milk is usable by baby, once they get better at digestion, their 'output' goes down.
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  • vpianoplayer7vpianoplayer7 member
    It's not the frequency but the consistency of the poop that matters. They can poop every few days but if it's still soft they're fine :) especially when breastfed because they digest the milk so well
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  • Haileychristine32Haileychristine32 member
    We actually just went through this. Our LO is exclusively breastfed and normally has 1-2 dirty diapers a day, then last week she just stopped. She didn't poop for 8 days! She didn't seem uncomfortable until about day 7 so our pediatrician had us come in. She said sometimes their muscles just tense up down there and it prevents them from going and then it just builds up!
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  • babyblue0501babyblue0501 member
    I just called the pediatrician about this yesterday. LO hasn't pooped since Sunday. He said sugar water 1 teaspoon on 4oz of water, and give throughout the day. He got back to me last night so still no poop! He said if that doesn't work, ½-1oz of pear juice should do the trick.
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