Introduction: When your baby is newborn, you’ll see black and green, sticky, gasoline-like poop on his diaper. Since a newborn’s meconium consists of amniotic fluid, mucus, dander and other things absorbed in the womb, and has little smell, you may not even realize it’s time to change your baby’s diaper. Two to four days after birth, your newborn’s stool will become lighter in color, a little army green, and less sticky. This is called “transition stool” and it indicates that your baby is starting to digest the first breast milk or formula he received and that his intestines are functioning properly. Is it normal for a baby to have a stool once every 3 to 5 days? Some breastfed children in 2-3 months, 2-3 days or even 5-7 days once a stool, but the discharge of the stool is yellow soft stool, no defecation difficulties, does not affect the child’s growth and development, parents do not need to worry, this is a normal phenomenon, is due to the small infant anal sphincter is not mature, the gastrointestinal tract growth and development caused by immature, may also be due to good digestion and absorption of breast milk, called save belly, if the baby No discomfort, you can not deal with. If the time is too long, affecting the baby’s milk intake, sleep unrest, you can use cotton swabs to save vegetable oil around the anus to stimulate defecation. How to deal with constipation and difficult bowel movement? What should I pay attention to? If your baby is constipated or has difficulty having a bowel movement, you should first find out if there are any danger signs such as crying, bloating or blood in the stool. If any of these red flags are present, especially if it affects the baby’s growth and weight, you should consider the possibility of anal fissure, congenital megacolon, anal stenosis, milk protein allergy and other pathological conditions, and refer the baby to a doctor. If there are no danger signs above, you need to know how your baby is feeding and how much milk he or she is feeding. Breastfeeding is advocated, while breastfeeding mothers should avoid spicy food intake. Babies who are artificially fed should be careful not to over thicken the formula and increase the intake of water to increase the number of stools and the amount of water in the stool. Prebiotics have the effect of softening stools, while calcium, iron, zinc and other nutritional supplements may increase the dryness of stools and should be applied under the guidance of a doctor. For constipated babies, you can start from 2-3 months of age and give a certain amount of time to put the stool after meals to keep the memory of the frequency of bowel movements; give your baby passive or active exercises to get more exercise, with abdominal massage, that is, with the umbilicus as the center, rotating clockwise massage to promote intestinal peristalsis. We need to cultivate regular bowel habits for a long time and patiently, combining dietary intervention with behavioral adjustment, and pay attention to the care of baby’s buttocks to avoid the occurrence of red buttocks and anal fissures. Use a cotton swab dipped in vegetable oil to rub around your baby’s anus before defecation to stimulate defecation and reduce the stimulation of the mucous membrane around the anus by the stool. Mupirocin ointment can be used when there is anal fissure.