Baby eating milk powder without pooping

Many new parents have no idea how to take care of a baby. They don’t know when the baby will be hungry or when the baby will poop. Women usually choose to breastfeed their babies, but women who have just given birth may not have milk yet, so mothers can only choose to feed their babies milk powder. Mothers are confused when their babies do not poop after eating milk powder. Is it normal for babies not to poop after eating milk powder?

Newborns cannot defecate on a regular basis because their defecation mechanism is not fully developed. They often have a lot of stool. The nerves in the rectal wall feel the expansion pressure and trigger reflex defecation. This is why some babies only defecate once every few days. Stimulation with a thermometer can also induce a defecation because it can trigger a reflex. Babies who are breastfed absorb breast milk more completely and have less stool. On the contrary, some babies may only defecate once every few days and do not necessarily defecate immediately after eating. Therefore, if a newborn baby does not have a bowel movement for a few days, it is not necessarily constipated. The way to determine whether a newborn baby is constipated is to observe the stool characteristics. If the characteristics are normal, it is normal not to have a bowel movement for a few days.

For artificially fed newborns, if they are mainly fed with milk, their stools will be light yellow, drier in texture, and have a distinct odor. This is because milk contains high protein, which smells bad when it decomposes. There may be white milk lumps in the stool. This is because milk contains a large amount of complex protein, which easily combines with calcium to form soap calcium during digestion.

2. What to do if your newborn has diarrhea

How many times does a newborn baby normally defecate? It depends on the time and feeding situation:

1. Frequency of meconium: Newborn babies have irregular bowel movements every day. At first, the baby will expel the meconium that has accumulated for 9 months, but it must be cleared out through frequent bowel movements, so the number of bowel movements will increase. It usually takes 2-3 days, 3-5 times a day, for the dark green color to disappear. If the baby has no meconium within 24 hours after birth, parents should pay attention and suspect that congenital malformation of the digestive tract has caused fecal obstruction. The baby needs to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

2. Number of bowel movements during breastfeeding: For breastfed babies, the frequency of bowel movements is very flexible. Usually, the frequency is higher in the neonatal period, 2-5 times a day, or even after each feeding. This is because breast milk is easy to digest, easy to excrete, and because of the reflex peristalsis of the intestines after food is input. Therefore, if a breastfed baby has loose stools or has more frequent bowel movements, it is normal as long as he is in good spirits and feeding, is gaining weight normally, and does not have difficulty defecating, abdominal pain, or bloating, and parents do not need to worry.

1. Physiological loose stools: Mothers need to feed their babies properly and provide better care for their babies. Pay attention to changes in your baby's spirit, appetite, and weight. Generally, no special treatment is required.

Dietary adjustments for breastfeeding: If a breastfed baby has diarrhea, do not wean the baby off breast milk easily. At this time, you can shorten the time of each feeding and let the baby eat the first 1/2-2/3 of the milk, because the first half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as protein. The second half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as fat, which is difficult to digest, so this part of milk can be squeezed out and poured away.

2. Improper feeding: Parents should correct unscientific feeding methods. If the baby's symptoms do not improve after correction, he should go to the hospital for treatment.

3. Allergy to milk powder: Parents cannot feed their babies milk powder blindly. They need to feed their newborn babies special milk powder according to the doctor's prescription.

4. Cold: Parents should speed up the treatment of the baby's cold. If you are worried that the baby will become dehydrated, you should give oral rehydration appropriately.

5. Viral or bacterial infection: When a baby is infected with rotavirus, he will experience vomiting and fever. If not treated in time, dehydration symptoms may occur, so special attention should be paid. In addition, parents should not hesitate and seek medical treatment immediately after discovering the situation. Before going to the hospital, you can drink small amounts of boiled sugar and salt water multiple times to prevent dehydration.