Is it normal for a three-month-old baby to not have diarrhea?

There must be many people who don’t know what “holding the stomach” means. It is actually a folk saying. It is easy to understand. It specifically refers to the change in the baby’s bowel movement pattern. This situation mainly occurs within one month of the baby. With more and more breastfeeding, the baby will have holding the stomach and the bowel movement will also show many changes. But some babies have not had holding the stomach even after three months. Is this phenomenon normal?

Is it normal for a three-month-old baby to not have diarrhea?

I wonder what the child’s mental state is like? It is normal for children to cry while eating if they are in general good condition, because their gastrointestinal function is not fully developed during this period. It can be adjusted by taking intestinal probiotics.

"My baby is 2 months old and is exclusively breastfed. Recently, he has only defecated once every 3 or 4 days, and the stools he excretes are also soft. Is he constipated? What should I do?"

Many breastfeeding mothers have encountered similar problems and are often extremely anxious, asking their predecessors for advice on how to relieve constipation.

In fact, mothers don’t need to worry. The baby’s behavior may be due to constipation, not constipation.

1. Holding back the stomach is a normal physiological phenomenon

Stomachache often occurs after one month of age in babies who are exclusively breastfed and have not yet started to eat complementary foods. This is because, after the baby is one month old, his digestive ability gradually improves, and he can fully digest and absorb breast milk, resulting in very little food residue every day and longer bowel movement intervals.

Also, because breast milk is rich in dietary fiber and oligofructose, it can prevent stools from becoming dry. Therefore, no matter how many days a baby with constipation has not defecated, his stool will not be dry or lumpy, but will still be normal soft or mushy, and defecation will not be difficult. As the baby grows, his appetite will gradually increase. Generally, after 4 months, the baby's stomachache will gradually decrease until it disappears.

Only when the stool is dry and hard and the baby has difficulty in defecation, it is true constipation.

2. A table helps distinguish between constipation and constipation

3. Three ways to promote bowel movements when you have a full stomach

Although constipation is a normal phenomenon and will not affect the baby's healthy development, if the baby has not defecated for four or five days or even seven or eight days, parents will definitely be anxious and anxious to relieve the baby's constipation. In this case, you can try the following 3 methods:

(1) Abdominal massage. Center on the baby's belly button, massage clockwise 10 times, and rest for 5 minutes. Repeat 3 times.

(2) Leg flexion and extension exercises. Let the baby lie on his back, hold the baby's legs and do flexion and extension exercises for a total of 10 times, and then flex and extend one leg 10 times. This can promote the baby's intestinal peristalsis and facilitate the discharge of feces.

(3) Vegetable oil. First, steam the vegetable oil for about 20 minutes to sterilize it. After the oil cools down, dip a sterilized cotton swab in the vegetable oil and gently insert it into the baby's anus about 1 cm to promote defecation.

4. Don’t do this when you are hungry.

(1) Long-term use of enema or soap bars to relieve constipation

Enemas can only be used in emergencies and are not a prelude to regular bowel movements for babies. Long-term use will lead to psychological dependence. After all, soap bars are chemical products that will irritate the baby's delicate intestinal mucosa and will also cause dependence if used for a long time.

(2) Rush to add formula milk or complementary food

Mothers should not think that their baby’s constipation means that they do not have enough breast milk, and blindly add formula milk or even complementary food to their baby in advance. This is wrong. Whether the baby eats enough depends on whether the baby's height and weight growth are up to standard and whether his development is good, rather than the frequency and amount of bowel movements.