Poop advice lol

Hey mamas I need a little advice! My 7 week old is having some hard poops and I can’t tell if he’s constipated or not! My 1st born never had poops like these and I’m not sure if it’s constipation or not. He’s formula fed and poops every 3 or so days (normal) but the consistency is like just a big chunk of play dough in his diaper lol no sign of mucous or blood in his stools they’re just really hard/pasty. Just wanted to know if I’m overreacting or not!

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I don’t think they should be hard. Call their peds doc!

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Yes definitely call the doctor!

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I had called bc my baby wasn’t pooping for a while and they definitely said to call back if they were hard!!

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If the stool is hard call the doctor. However, if baby is just not going as regular as they used to that’s normal newborns have a hormone that actually makes them go and they don’t have to think about it but after a while that hormone goes away and the baby has to learn how to get it out. So sometimes they will go a few days without having a bowel movement and then have an explosion. It’s totally normal and just the process of baby learning

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Sounds like constipation. No biggie. Talk to your pediatrician. Also, try adding a little more water to your formula (literally a little more above the ounce line) and do some exercises with your baby to create movement. This should help with bowel movements especially since babies can’t move much

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My baby had hard poops while on similac 360 I started giving her bio Gaia probiotics daily and mylocon with her feeds per her pediatricians recommendation cause she was also having to push hard for a small hard poop and she was 2 weeks old. it helped but not enough ended up having to switch her formula and that did the trick.

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