Your baby’s food, drink, and poop are the most important concerns of moms and dads, and the slightest change in poop and poop makes them nervous. The consultation clinics or the backstage of the baby basket often have moms asking about poop and poop problems, and constipation is one of them. If a baby does not have a bowel movement for two or three days, parents get anxious and get angry, thinking that the baby is constipated, and start to take various measures to treat and relieve the baby’s constipation. Is it necessarily constipation if the baby has long intervals between bowel movements? Each baby’s bowel pattern and bowel habits are different, so a long interval between bowel movements does not necessarily mean that the baby is constipated. As long as your baby does not feel difficulty in defecation and is in good spirits, parents should not worry too much. Preserved belly can also cause babies to have long intervals between bowel movements. Babies with preserved belly may not have a bowel movement for three or four days. As long as the baby eats normally and is in a normal state of mind, the mother should not worry. The baby’s digestive ability gradually improves after the first month of life, and the breast milk is fully digested and absorbed, resulting in very little food residue produced each day, which is not enough to stimulate the rectum to form a bowel movement, a common phenomenon. This condition also indicates that the mother’s breast milk is of good quality and nutritionally balanced, and the baby’s digestive ability is good, so the nutrients are absorbed too well, which causes the baby to not need to fully peristaltic intestinal tract, resulting in the phenomenon of “saving belly”, which usually occurs in babies who are exclusively breastfed within 6 months of age. What kind of constipation is it? Constipation is a common problem for babies of all ages. When a baby is constipated, not only will the number of stools decrease, but the nature of the stool will also change significantly. If your baby has difficulty passing stool, the texture of the stool becomes hard or small pellets, or even blood on the stool, your baby may have pain when passing stool, and some may refuse to pass stool because of the pain, these situations often indicate that your baby is constipated. Parents should not conclude that their baby is constipated just by looking at the decrease in the number of bowel movements. The decrease in the number of bowel movements does not necessarily mean that the baby is constipated, but the focus should be on the nature of the baby’s stool. What should I do if my baby is constipated? 1, pay attention to the intake of water In the baby to milk as the main food, before 6 months do not need additional water, but after the addition of complementary foods must pay attention to the amount of water the baby drink every day. You can roughly judge the amount of water your baby takes in by observing the number and weight of diaper changes. 2, the choice of complementary foods baby in the addition of complementary foods, more likely to constipation problems. There are two main reasons: First, constipation caused by allergies to certain foods, milk, eggs, fish and shrimp, etc. To improve this cause of baby constipation, parents can suspend the addition of complementary foods for babies, or simplify the baby’s complementary foods, and try not to let the baby eat complementary foods that can trigger allergies. To improve constipation due to this reason, just add rich dietary fiber to your baby, such as green leafy vegetables and fruits. In addition, the staple food that babies eat should not be too fine, not always made with refined white flour, you can consider using whole wheat. 3, guide your baby to develop the habit of regular bowel movements Parents can slowly cultivate the habit of sitting to relieve the baby, this posture is conducive to the relaxation of the sphincter muscle, convenient for the baby to relieve the bowels. It is recommended to carry out bowel training around one and a half or two years old (this depends on the baby’s age and specific ability): prepare a child’s toilet for the baby, or install a child’s potty cover on the adult toilet, or put a stable footstool under his feet so that the baby has support under his feet when he defecates hard, and do not let the baby use the adult toilet directly. Does my baby need medicine for constipation? If your baby’s constipation is severe and cannot be relieved through regulation, you may consider giving your baby medication to relieve constipation under the guidance of a doctor. The common medications used today are opiates and lactulose.