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If you don't want your baby to suffer from constipation, please put away this parenting guide
When nursing a small baby, mothers can't avoid these top priorities: feeding, sleeping, and pulling.
1. How to judge whether the baby's bowel movements are normal?
Babies can't express themselves, which requires the mother's "fire eye golden eye" to observe carefully. How long the baby has two bowel movements is a "normal" phenomenon, which has no fixed value. Bowel movements are greatly influenced by factors such as your baby's age and food.
Normal bowel movements in your baby:
A baby born one week later, about 4 times a day soft stools or watery stools;
Babies in the first three months of life, breastfeeding about 3 times a day soft stools;
Formula-fed babies, 2-3 bowel movements per day;
When the baby is flushed due to the force of defecation, but after a few minutes there will be soft stools, which is only caused by the weakness of the baby's abs, and the mother does not have to worry about constipation.
Abnormal bowel movements in your baby:
Newborns, the stools are hard and less than once a day. (Some exclusively breastfed babies may be exceptions);
Older babies, hard stools, and 3-4 days of a bowel movement;
No matter how old the baby, the stool is large, dry and hard, and the bowel movement is difficult and laborious;
After a larger bowel movement, paroxysmal abdominal pain is reduced;
There is blood on the surface or inside the stool;
There is feces between two bowel movements.
2. Under normal circumstances, what degree of constipation does the baby belong to?
There are many mothers who think that the baby is constipated without pulling the stink for 3-5 days, but in fact, this is a misunderstanding of constipation. Determining whether the baby is constipated cannot be based on the time interval between bowel movements, but mainly depends on whether the baby's stool is dry and the degree of difficulty during defecation.
If your baby just has a long interval between bowel movements, but the stool does not dry, this is not constipation. Mainly because the baby's intestinal absorption function is strong, the amount of feces is small, or the intestine is immature, etc., usually this situation is called "belly".
3. What is the difference between baby belly and constipation?
Baby belly preservation mainly occurs in breastfed babies, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and does not require human intervention. Belly saving is mainly manifested as the baby's 2-3 days, 4-5 days, or even a week without bowel movements, but can still eat, drink and have fun. The large discharge is yellow soft stool, without induration. This is mainly because the baby's digestion ability is improved in the period from birth to two months, the breast milk is fully digested and absorbed, and the remaining residue is less than enough to promote the formation of rectum to defecate, and the number of bowel movements in the baby is reduced.
The most direct evidence to determine whether the baby is stomach or constipation is to look at the characteristics of the stool, if the discharge is normal soft stool, it is the belly; if the stool is hard, dry, and difficult to discharge, it is constipation. Among them, if the baby's stool is not dry, but the stool is difficult to discharge, and the interval is particularly long (more than a week), then you should see a doctor.
4. What should I do if my baby is constipated?
Mild or occasional constipation, mom at home with a few tricks can alleviate the condition
Constipation due to breastfeeding is rare, and if a breast-milking baby has constipation, it is more likely to be caused by other causes than dietary factors.
Formula milk feeding, according to the formula milk instructions in accordance with the proportion of milk powder, first add water, and then add a certain proportion of milk powder. Or try changing the brand of milk powder.
For babies over 6 months, fruits (especially prunes and pears) can generally help solve the problem of constipation.
When a baby who begins to add complementary foods has constipation, he needs to add more high-fiber foods to the baby's daily diet, including potatoes (sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc.), melons (pumpkins), vegetables (peas, soybeans, broccoli, bamboo shoots, hollow cabbage, etc.), fungi (fungus), algae (kelp), and fresh fruits (prunes, apricots, plums, raisins, apples, etc.), as well as whole wheat cereals, bread, yogurt, etc.
There is also a phenomenon of artificially causing constipation in babies that cannot be ignored: constipation caused by too much calcium supplementation. After calcium is taken orally into the gastrointestinal tract, too much calcium combines with fat in the intestine to form calcium soap, which is easy to cause constipation.
5. How should the baby with constipation take medication?
If the baby's constipation through the above methods still cannot be improved, you can consider giving the baby medicine under the guidance of a doctor. The most commonly used drugs are kaiser and lactulose.