Common in 2-6 months of breastfeeding babies, manifested as 3-5 days defecation once, or even longer, some babies may not defecate for more than 10 days without painful performance, until defecation is still yellow soft stool, not dry and not hard, this phenomenon is called “save belly”. This is because the baby’s digestive capacity gradually improves after the full moon, and the breast milk can be fully digested and absorbed, resulting in very little food residue produced every day, which is not enough to stimulate the rectum to form a bowel movement, which eventually leads to a common phenomenon.
How to distinguish the constipation from the belly?
1.Shape of the stool
Save belly: the number of times the baby poops is reduced, but the nature of the poop is still a thin paste, so the baby does not struggle to defecate.
Constipation: The baby’s stool is dry and hard, so it will be more difficult to defecate, and sometimes can hold the face red.
2.Mental state
Stooling: The baby’s mental state, food intake, sleep and other performance are as usual.
Constipation: The baby may also have unstable sleep, cry easily when pooping, irritability and other bad emotions.
3.Time of occurrence
Stooling: It only happens when the baby is 2 to 6 months old.
Constipation: It can happen at any stage.
What should I do if my baby has a stagnant belly?
The baby appears “save belly child”, as long as it is breastfeeding normal stool (paste), the mother does not need to be too anxious. You can do nothing about it, and there is no need to rush to give your baby water. However, it should be reminded that when a baby has a saved belly, it means that the amount of breast milk feeding is just right or slightly insufficient, so the number of times the baby poops should be adjusted to the ideal state (usually 1~2 times a day) to ensure that the baby’s rapid metabolism needs during infancy.
How exactly do you develop good bowel habits? Mom and dad can take the following 4 kinds of measures.
1, train your child to poop regularly
Because the phenomenon of belly accumulation generally begins to appear in the baby about 2 months, so at this time to train the baby to poop regularly (such as every morning and evening to poop), you can let the baby early to form a good bowel habits.
2, every day adhere to do abdominal massage
① gently rub the baby’s abdomen with the palm of your hand, take the navel as the center, rotate from left to right and massage 10 times for 5 minutes, then massage 10 times, repeatedly for 3 times.
② baby lying on his back, grab his legs to do flexion and extension exercise, that is, stretch a flexion, a total of 10 times, and then single-leg flexion and extension 10 times. This will help the baby’s intestinal peristalsis, conducive to the discharge of stool.
3, appropriate to drink more water
For the fat baby’s belly, you can feed some boiled water every day between the two milk, until the full 6 months after the addition of complementary food, you can completely solve this stool situation.
4.Increase the amount of milk
If your child’s stool is reduced and weight gain is not ideal, it may be because of insufficient breast milk, you can add some formula to your baby in time; Suzhou mother and baby guide suggests that if your baby is more than 4 months old, you can also add a little rice soup, it will be better to improve the condition of the stool.
Warm tip: Do not use laxatives for constipation in small infants (using drugs may lead to more than diarrhea). When the baby stool accumulation too much, soap can be plugged into the anus to stimulate defecation; or injected into the anus with a corked lotion, relying on the role of glycerin lubrication to help defecate. However, these mechanical methods should not be used frequently, and poor control can cause anal damage.