Baby struggling to poop
Hi guys,
(To preface this, we are taking him to the Drs today)
My baby is 2 weeks old and formula fed and for the last week, he has really struggled to poop.
He's passing some really hard paler yellow stools. Once he passes these, he seems to be able to get less formed stools out but it's still more formed than it should be at his age.
He's constantly straining, grunting and trying to go and none of the methods like cycling his legs, etc seem to work.
Have any of you come across this before?
What worked/what was the cause in the end?
From,
A Mam that just wants her baby to poop comfortably 🥺
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Get him seen by a doctor if his poops are hard as obviously at this age it should be as I like to call it a chicken korma consistency.
My daughter was like this and she has a milk allergy (wasn’t diagnosed till 5.5 months old) but in the meantime she had some stool softener to help her go and be more comfortable. She also ended up with piles bless her x
Def speak with the doctor. But you said they are formula fed, have you tried doing a couple of feeds with the ready made, rather than the powder. That always seemed to help get our little one moving
Ready to feeds can help a bit but I would see a dr too, which formula are you using you may find a goat milk formula is easier on his digestion 🙂 or a comfort formula may be beneficial x
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