What’s wrong with your newborn’s red face from straining to poop?

The gastrointestinal tract of newborns is not very well developed, and when there are pathological factors, the newborn baby will have slowed down gastrointestinal peristalsis, so it will be especially hard to poop, and the face will be red, sometimes accompanied by stirring legs and shaking limbs. This is usually due to indigestion, and the baby’s stool may be accompanied by more milk flaps. In this case, the mother can give the baby oral probiotics to regulate the micro-ecological environment of the intestinal tract, which has the function of promoting digestion and regulating the intestinal tract. In addition, mothers can give their babies auxiliary treatment by rubbing their hands into their lower abdomen to give hot compresses and massaging clockwise along the umbilical cord, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and help babies to defecate. In addition, the mother’s diet will also affect the baby’s stool properties, breastfeeding mothers try not to eat too greasy, otherwise the baby will be prone to indigestion, or dry stools, constipation, defecation efforts.