My little guy is 7 weeks old and is now only formula fed, due to such a rocky start. I don’t see a poo regularly and I can see he is desperately trying. It’s averaging every 3 days! I’ve been to the drs but they don’t seem concerned because they measure by consistency and not length of time. But it’s awful seeing him strain with no result. Anyone else having this?
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We’ve had this but ours was every 5/6 days, drs told us it’s not concerning until 10 days! We swapped her milk from normal Kendamil to Kendamil comfort and she’s gone down to every 2 days. If you can see he’s in a lot of pain drs advise infacol but my little one was sick straight after so we try some gripe water on her dummy every so often.

try to give him one ready made bottle (ready to feed) and regular belly massages as well as bicycle kicks etc. the ready to feed bottle usually helps my neices and nephews, not tried it with my little boy yet xx

My first was the same. Think the longest we went was 5 or 6 days. It is normal (although bloody stressful for us) As long as hes feeding well and having lots of wet nappies - we always said we would call drs if it went longer than a week, which it never did.
We did warm baths, we use the shnuggle bath. Baby massage etc. Infacol and gripe water. We're also using colic drops this time round.
Also with our first we tried a few different formulas (combi fed) and the only one that worked for him was kendamil. Some of the others would bumg him up. It might be worth trying a different formula till you find one that works best. Good luck x

Both of mine have been only pooing every 2-4 days. It can be hard to see them so uncomfortable but only thing that seems to work for us is tummy massage & rocking knees/bicycle legs.
My friend is an osteo & did a little treatment on him which worked immediately though! So if he’s really bad could try a paediatric osteo/chiro

My December baby had normal poo but still really struggled to get it out for no reason and was super fussy and in discomfort/pain until he eventually went. We asked the GP to try lactulose and it was a life saver to finally have a happy baby. We still use it now and he enjoys having it as it’s a sweet syrup.