What to do if your baby doesn't poop

We all know that when babies are young, they are particularly prone to diarrhea and constipation, especially for children who eat milk powder. The thickness of the milk powder prepared by mothers will affect the baby's stomach digestion function. Many babies who eat milk powder will suffer from constipation because the nutrients contained in milk powder are most likely to cause the baby to get angry. So what should I do if the baby does not defecate?

Once food is eaten, it is healthy only if there is a balance between intake and output. For babies who cannot speak yet, their health condition is actually reflected in their "stink". As long as we observe carefully, we can clearly know the child's health condition.

The growth story of a good "stinky"

Eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping are the main growth tasks of a newborn baby. Each one is indispensable and extremely important. What we are going to talk about today is the problem of baby's "defecation". After food is eaten, the nutrients will be absorbed and utilized by the human body. The remaining waste and residue that are not completely digested and absorbed will become excrement. Toxins and waste will be excreted through feces, forming a normal and healthy body cycle.

Whether the "poop" is normal is a barometer of the baby's health.

1. Newborn meconium (dark green)

I guess the first time a child came into the world, he or she probably scared the parents a lot. It was a lot of dark green poop, and the fathers were so scared that they ran to call a doctor.

Even if a newborn baby has not eaten anything, he or she will pass dark green meconium 6 to 12 hours after birth.

I don’t know if it’s because the babies cherish their mothers, or they don’t want to dirty the amniotic fluid they swallow every day, but the babies must come out of their mother’s belly before they are willing to poop for the first time in their lives. Meconium that has accumulated for 9 months must be cleared out through frequent bowel movements, which usually takes 2 to 3 days, 3 to 5 times a day, for the dark green color to disappear.

Meconium is usually odorless, viscous, and nearly dark green in color. It is mainly composed of amniotic fluid swallowed by the baby in the womb, epithelial cells shed by the fetus, vellus hair, sebum, bile, intestinal secretions, etc. These innate things are difficult to wash off, and experienced elders will tell the children's parents that they must use diapers instead of cloth diapers in the first few days.

Experts remind you - this is not a bad "poop": the time for premature babies to excrete meconium is sometimes delayed, which is mainly related to the poor intestinal motility of premature babies or delayed feeding of children.