Baby constipation?

ok, I had typed this really detailed answer out - but I hit my back button by accident grr!!

doctors don’t give advice about babies…they’re doctors…not peadiatrics.. or health visitors..

a trick my friend taught me (whose a midwife) is this, and it worked great for me. my second baby had really bad constipation, and I alsways had to ‘help’ him ‘go’…

when baby is laying on his back, you know the position they go into when you change their nappy (knees up to tummy) well get baby in that position, but knees NOT together… they need to be apart so his legs are ‘spread’ but knees to tummy and feet as normal down…this makes it impossible for babt to ‘tense’ up when poop is coming out.

when you’re constipated, poo gets really hard, and it can be painfull to pass a bowel movement…and the baby is simply tensing up, this position STOPS that tensing…

noe, next to the bottom hole and in between the cheek bone there is this fleshy area, if light pressure is applied to that area is stimulate the anus’s muscles to expel what’s in there…and if he’s constipated, it’s in that area that the poop will be..

the finger goes no where near the ‘hole’ itself. but you know when you’re having a poo, and the poo gets to a certain stage where the muscle in the anal passage takes over and the poop is expelled..with little or no effort from you, thats what you’re stimulating, the legs being up stop the babt from tensing up.

the anus is the same diameter as the passage, so anything that comes out will be able to come out, more importantly, it needs to come out. it’s a harmless way to help baby poop…

it’s really important to also make sure baby keeps VERY hydrated. all the time the poop is in the bowel water is still being extracted from it as the body needs it, and this is where problems can occur..this poop needs to come out becuase the mositure from the poop isn’t an ideal way for the body to retain moisture…but through the body balancing out it’s water levels, it will take it from where ever it can (osmosis etc) so baby needs to be hydrated so the body doesn’t need to seek water from elsewhere…

maybe try a different brand of baby milk…it could be too thick, although constipation is very common…generally babies don’t like water!!

but I would advise when seeking advice about babies, she speaks to health visitors / midwifes / or other mums…doctors do infections and bacterias..thinngs they can prescribe for, not help with…