What does it mean? With the increase of breastfeeding rate, the baby does not have painful stools for 2-3 days, or even 4-5 days, and the stools are still yellow and soft, without hard knots, and the amount is not particularly large. This is because the baby can digest and absorb the breast milk fully due to the improvement of digestive ability for a period of time from before and after the full moon to two months, and the remaining residue is not much, which is not enough to stimulate the rectum to form a bowel movement, so the number of bowel movements of the baby will be reduced. At the same time, it also means that the mother’s breast milk is of good quality, nutritionally balanced, and the baby’s digestive ability is very good, which causes the baby’s intestinal peristalsis to be inadequate (because it is too well absorbed and does not need to be fully peristaltic), resulting in the phenomenon of “belly accumulation”. How to distinguish the belly and constipation? Save belly baby although a few days to defecate once, but the discharge of the stool is normal yellow soft stool, this is the key to the difference between save belly and constipation. Other differences between the two can be seen in the absence of painful bowel movements, the small amount of stool and the absence of hard knots. Constipation refers to a change in the frequency and nature of the child’s stool. Constipation does not only mean a decrease in the number of stools, but more importantly, hard, dry stools that are difficult to pass. Sometimes the hard stool will bruise the intestinal mucosa, and there will be blood or mucus outside the stool. Large and hard stool will also cause anal fissures and anal pain, and make the child lose appetite, bloating, and the stool can be touched in the left lower abdomen. What should I do if my baby has a retained belly? If your baby has a normal stool from breastfeeding, you don’t have to worry too much about it. However, some studies suggest that the amount of breast milk at this time is just enough or slightly insufficient for the baby, so it should also be adjusted to the ideal number of stools, which is 1-2 times a day. To better ensure that the rapid metabolic needs of infancy and seize the opportunity to develop good bowel habits of small babies, to effectively prevent the occurrence of constipation in the future. At this time, parents can take the following measures: 1, adhere to do abdominal massage every day. (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) infants lying on their backs, grab the baby’s 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, which is conducive to the discharge of stool; 2. Increase the amount of milk. If the child’s stool is reduced, the weight gain is not ideal, caused by insufficient breast milk, then you can promptly give the child to increase some formula; if the baby has more than 6 months, you can also add a little rice soup, it will be better to improve the situation of the stool; 3, stimulate the anal bowel movements. Twice a day, about 20-30 minutes after the baby eats milk, with an oily topical medicine (such as aureomycin ointment) applied to the baby’s anal opening, pad with soft paper, gently push and press the anus, slowly do 10 times. Generally soon there will be stool or defecation; use sterilized cotton swabs dipped in vegetable oil, gently stretch to the baby’s anal opening, can also cause rectal defecation.