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!

Yes definitely call the doctor!

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

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

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

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.