Is it normal for a newborn baby to not have a bowel movement for a day?

Parents should pay attention if the feces are not excreted within 24 hours after birth, and go to the hospital for examination. (4) congenital hypothyroidism, in which the child suffers from constipation due to slow bowel movements. If the baby in the neonatal period (within 28 days after birth), there is no stool for 24 hours, parents can not worry too much, especially breast-fed children prone to “save belly”, simply eat human milk children, 2 to 4 times a day defecation, 1 week later most of the time once a day. The stool is yellow or golden yellow, uniform soft paste, sour gas, no odor. Some newborn babies sometimes 2 to 3 days or 4 to 5 days to defecate once, but the stool is not dry, still soft stool or paste, defecation to force breath, face red, as if defecation difficulties, which is a common phenomenon of breastfeeding, commonly known as “save belly”. Each baby’s stool is different, as long as the appetite, good mental state, weight in the physiological weight loss gradually increased, then do not worry too much about the number of stools more than one or less than one, and do not worry too much about whether the stool is paste or stripes. If the newborn does not defecate for a long time, parents can use 2 – 3 ml of special infant open cork, under the guidance of the doctor, active laxative treatment to avoid intestinal toxins and bilirubin reabsorption, followed by the addition of intestinal probiotics to increase the normal function of the intestine, and hot compresses, clockwise massage of the abdomen to promote gastrointestinal motility, can help defecate.