Hi ladies,
I tried searching for this but didn't find anything that quite answered it. Apologies for asking a dreaded poop question! My LO is EBF and drinks pumped milk from bottles at daycare, currently 15 weeks. My pediatrician had let me know that it is quite common for EBF babies to slow their bowel movements down a lot after 6 weeks of age. This happened for my LO....she got into a pattern of only having one every other day or every 3rd day. She was only BF at home with no bottles. However, when she started daycare 5 weeks ago and began taking milk from bottles in addition to BF at home, the past few weeks she's upped her frequency with having 2-4 daily BMs. I called my pedi about this and she was not concerned since LO is otherwise healthy, just a little slow on her weight gain when we went in to have her checked for a cold and she wound up having an ear infection. I was glad for the reassurance....but I am just curious if others' LO have experienced something similar to get a comparison if this is another common occurrence? I never thought I'd find myself worrying about this topic. Welcome to motherhood I suppose.
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