from 10 poos a day to NONE?!

[hakeber]

Is this normal? She's 5.5 weeks. Can an efb baby get constipated? She has fussed and seems to be grunting like she usually cues before a big poo, but nothing comes, just a few farts! Weird, right?

[Abraisme]

Originally Posted by hakeber

Is this normal? She's 5.5 weeks. Can an efb baby get constipated? She has fussed and seems to be grunting like she usually cues before a big poo, but nothing comes, just a few farts! Weird, right?

Both my kids started pooping less around 6 weeks and then after about 8 weeks they both only went once a week. There's a wide range of normal.. 7 times a day or once every seven days. I doubt she's constipated, but you won't know until she poops. If it's little hard pellets then she was constipated, if it's soft, then she's just going less often.

[stephanie95]

All of my children have done this. My baby quit pooping with every meal around 7 weeks and now poops every several days. The nurses say it's possible to go up to 10 days without a poop in a breastfed baby. This baby has gone as long as 9 days between poops. I don't complain. He often has gas and it can get smelly especially if I have eaten peppers or broccoli!

[hakeber]

Ahh, right Okay. I can definitely cope with fewer poopy bums to clean!

I just don't remember ds ever having so many and over the last month got really use to her pooping every hour or so!

[emmaegbert]

yeah, DS went almost 2 weeks once.

DD never more than 2 days in between.

People are so different...

you could try a little tummy time to move the gas along.

[JayJay]

Bella's gone from about a million times a day to 1-3 times a day. Today for example, we had two poos: one in a diaper - nice big one, that one - which I changed. Then, after our bath, I popped her on a towel and...bingo! Another fair sized one on the towel!

Funny thing was, that the same way as a diaper, she then fussed for the towel to be "changed!"

[mandms]

ive always noticed this at about six weeks or so too.. just about at that here ourselves.
its apparently due to the slow decrease/ to eventual transition to complete milk at this time. there is still a small quantity of colostrom up until this point that is slowly reducing, and colostrom has laxative properties. as their body adjusts it may take a month or two of spread out BM's then they resume a more recognizable pattern.

[tmwmommy]

That's totally normal. Breast milk is so perfect that there's not much to waste! My dd still went every other day or every day but many babies go 2 weeks or longer!