My son is 6 months and is eating purées (fruit and veggie) and breast milk. How often should he be popping? I think today was the first day of his life he didn't poop.
C had bad constipation when he started solids. The pedi told us that he should be pooping "1.8 times a day." We still laugh about that. He was at like 1.8 poops a week. We tried altering his diet and it didn't work, so the doc wrote him a subscription to lactulose which we use as required. This gets him up to about 0.8 poops a day. We'll take it.
My EBF baby pooped about once a week. Once we added solids, he started pooping once a day. Now, his diet is mostly breastmilk and fruit, and he poops at least twice a day.
The first few days of solids, things were in flux. One day he ate a lot and seemed to have stomach/ gastro pains. He pooped a little less and then went back to normal, or maybe slightly less frequent pooping. At age 2 our kid is finally down to an average two poops per day.
It could take a few weeks until he finds a new normal and there is a wide range of what is medically normal. Then it will change again because you add protein, or wcm, or he's eating more table food than purees.
Look for signs of distress - straining, but no actual poop, gas/bloating, extra fussiness, etc. all of that would be more concerning. If he's happy, but just not pooping it's not too much of an issue.
Do read up on which fruits and veggies are binding and which are known to cause more/looser BMs and balance them appropriately in his diet. I'd stay away from bananas particularly and push peaches, pears, and plums until he poops again.
It could take a few weeks until he finds a new normal and there is a wide range of what is medically normal. Then it will change again because you add protein, or wcm, or he's eating more table food than purees.
Look for signs of distress - straining, but no actual poop, gas/bloating, extra fussiness, etc. all of that would be more concerning. If he's happy, but just not pooping it's not too much of an issue.
Do read up on which fruits and veggies are binding and which are known to cause more/looser BMs and balance them appropriately in his diet. I'd stay away from bananas particularly and push peaches, pears, and plums until he poops again.
He's not a big fan of bananas anyway and had peaches and squash today:)
He's been fussy some, but I think he might be teething. Not especially gassy as best I can tell.
What is the point to call the doctor? Obviously not at one day, but just to know in case?
E lately has been once a day on average. He used to go every 36 hours or so but that was before solids. I think of it's been a few days and he seems really uncomfortable is when a doctor call might be a good idea.
It could take a few weeks until he finds a new normal and there is a wide range of what is medically normal. Then it will change again because you add protein, or wcm, or he's eating more table food than purees.
Look for signs of distress - straining, but no actual poop, gas/bloating, extra fussiness, etc. all of that would be more concerning. If he's happy, but just not pooping it's not too much of an issue.
Do read up on which fruits and veggies are binding and which are known to cause more/looser BMs and balance them appropriately in his diet. I'd stay away from bananas particularly and push peaches, pears, and plums until he poops again.
He's not a big fan of bananas anyway and had peaches and squash today:)
He's been fussy some, but I think he might be teething. Not especially gassy as best I can tell.
What is the point to call the doctor? Obviously not at one day, but just to know in case?
We took c to the doctor after a few stretches of 6-7 days. So basically once we realized that it wasn't a one-time thing, and all of the usual dietary fixes weren't working (prunes/pears/peaches, etc).
We are not offering water at present, but I'm not opposed to trying that.
We found that water did help a lot. We also found that with harder stools, he had a really hard time pooping while he was sitting up. If it looked like he was straining, we put him on his tummy, and that usually resulted in a poop.