I’m looking for advice to help baby poo. My baby turned 8 weeks old yesterday and hasn’t pooped in 5 days now. He’s been trying for a few days and has been grunting and straining but nothing. He had a poo stain in his nappy yesterday and farts often but that’s as far as it goes. He doesn’t seem all that uncomfortable though. Apart from the straining and grunting he isn’t upset or crying (even when straining) and doesn’t seem to be in pain. Iv tried a warm bath, foot massages, bicycle legs, tummy massage and I’m at a loss now. I’m going to be speaking to my health visitor tomorrow about it as well
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Try and call the GP, they should prioritise your baby and book you in the same day. They might give you lactulose to help him poo easily.
He has an appointment for this afternoon 🤞🏻 we had such a bad week last week with his reflux that resulted in him choking and needing to be seen at out of hours and now that we’re on top of the reflux and he’s doing great this is happening 😭 it’s so stressful

I would recommend these for future use. It says excess gas, but the whole lot usually follows through - https://www.boots.com/windi-gas-and-colic-reliever-for-babies-10-count-by-fridababy-10292824?srsltid=AfmBOopl2g5hEhVpCoBXFPu0CF6G-aV7yq4nAAHMlCN5voXbhTVTIq59
thank you il pick these up !
UPDATE: he finally pooped ! And it was an explosion 😂