"The baby is 2 months old, pure breast milk, recently it is 3 or 4 days to have a stool, the stool is also soft, is this constipation, what to do?"
Many breastfeeding mothers encounter similar problems, often in a hurry, asking their predecessors for laxative methods.
A common manifestation of the baby's belly and constipation is that they cannot defecate for several days. Baby belly is a normal phenomenon, but constipation is a manifestation of the baby's bad stomach.
Therefore, only by distinguishing the difference between the two can we correctly judge the baby's condition, better care for the baby, and ensure the baby's health.
So, how to judge whether the baby is stomach or constipated, and what is the difference between the child's belly and constipation? Moms can judge according to the following method!
1
The shape of the poop
Belly saving: The baby only has less time to defecate, but the nature of the poop is still thin and mushy, and the baby does not have to work hard when defecating.
Constipation: The baby's poop is relatively dry and hard, so it will be more difficult to defecate, and sometimes it can make the face red.
2
Baby's mental state
Belly saving: The baby's mental state, food intake, sleep and all other manifestations are as usual.
Constipation: The baby may also have unsteady sleep, easy to cry when defecating, irritability and other bad emotions.
3
Time of occurrence
Belly saving: Only occurs in babies 2 to 6 months.
Constipation: any stage can occur.
To sum up, belly puffing is a common phenomenon in babies after the full moon. As long as the baby's mental state is good, there is no painful performance when defecating, the stool is yellow and soft, not dry and not hard, no hard knot, the mother does not have to be too anxious. You can do nothing about it, and you don't have to rush to give your baby water.
Constipation not only refers to a decrease in the number of stools, but more importantly refers to induration, dryness, and difficulty in excreting stools. Sometimes the feces are hard and scratch the intestinal mucosa, and there will be blood or mucus sticking to the outside of the feces, and the large and hard stools will also cause fissures and pain, making the child lose appetite, bloating, and palpable fecal lumps in the left lower abdomen, which is very different from the stomach.
Solution to your baby's constipation
Adjust your diet to relieve constipation. If the baby does not eat breast milk but eats milk powder, it is more likely to have constipation symptoms, which may be due to the excessive concentration of milk powder mixed, or it may be that the protein content in milk powder is too high. In order to eliminate the constipation caused by this cause, parents can adjust the proportion of milk powder to try.
Dietary fiber in complementary foods is not abundant enough. To improve constipation caused by this reason, just add rich dietary fiber to the baby, such as potatoes (such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc.), melons (such as pumpkins), vegetables (such as bamboo shoots, hollow cabbage, etc.), fungi (such as fungus), algae (such as kelp), and fresh fruits (such as pears, plums, apples, etc.) are rich in dietary fiber food.
Properly train your baby to bowel. Some parents in accordance with the traditional habits, early start to give the baby to urinate, in the case of the baby does not have the intention to urinate or stool, let him work hard to defecate, which is also easy to cause the baby constipation one of the reasons. In order to avoid the baby's symptoms of constipation, it is best to wait for the baby to grow to 18 months old before scientific defecation training
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