6 week old bowel movements

My 6 week old has always struggled with pooing. She only goes every 3-4 days and struggles with trapped wind/strains when pooing. I’ve tried gripe water which does help her burp and poop, I feed her cow and gate formula, has anyone had any experience with cow and gate comfort? I’m in 2 minds whether to try it or not

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I think pooping 3-4 times at that age is quite normal. Mine poops about 1-3 times a day, and I'm not concerned.
She also struggles with colic and trapped wind - I find that baths help x

she goes once every 3-4 days lovely. Not 3-4 times a day x

Sorry - misread that. Apologies. I was wondering how many times you were expecting a baby to poop a day.
Has the GP advised anything? X

don’t worry haha it’s easily done 🥰. I haven’t spoke to the GP yet as they’re a bit useless tbh. I have the health visitor supposedly coming today but I don’t have much faith in her showing up. I might just give the GP a call and see what they say. X

That's terrible that they've not been showing up! Good luck with it - I'm sure there will be something that can help x

oh I’ve not seen these before! I’ll look into them. Thankyou x

did u add it once a day ? And how old is your baby if you don’t mind sharing

My baby boy is 4 weeks and we are currently going through the same thing where he poops every 3-4 days. You are right, my GP only advised that I should give sips cooled boiled water between feeds and it probably is his routine as long as he is not constipated. However, I have heard that it does get better within time. If you are not very concerned hopefully it should get better, but just for reassurance you can still check in with your GP.

I did! She is now 7 weeks, we started using this at about 5 weeks where she kept holding her poos and then we had a poonami at about day 3. HV etc all said it was normal though, so equally it could have been time that actually helped. My baby is combi fed too, so can’t guarantee it was these that worked, but the timing worked out perfectly x

I had this with my little boy - at 8 week the doctors prescribed me with the smallest dose of lactulose and it's worked wonders. 2 weeks have passed now and he's going every 2 days rather than 4/5 - still not as consistent as I'd like as sometimes he does pull his legs up to his chest but he's definitely going more

Thankyou for your reply! I have briefly spoke to a health visitor on the phone today who should be calling me some point before the week ends to go into more detail but she did say she isn’t concerned as it can just be baby’s pooing cycle so I suppose it might be the case for a few babies! X

Thankyou for this! X

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