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Celia is not pooping - I mean, she has pooped - she passed all of her meconium and then had a few (very few) breastmilk poops - but for the past few days, there are only a few streaks in her daipers. (they are sufficiently wet) Is this normal??
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From what I remember from when I attend LaLache League regularly, is that a "poop" could constitute a dime size smattering in the diaper. It sounds like Cecilia fits into that category from your description. She might be one of those babies that goes for a long time (12-14 days) and then has a major blow outs, as well.
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One of my girls used to not poop for almost a week and then have 3 or 4 blow-outs in one day...and then the cycle would start over. I was very concerned at first, but she was never uncomfortable, it was just how her little body worked. She was the only baby out of 10 to have this "pooping" routine.
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My kids will have a long time in between poopy diapers too. They were not uncomfortable at all. The Dr said something about me having high quality breast milk and giving me a thumbs up 
Right now my dd is 2.5 months old and has about 2 poopy diapers a week..she is cooing and squealing and sleeping like a champ...all is well! 
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As long as she is peeing I think you are okay. However, if the pee is dark orange at all, then she is getting dehydrated. Or if the pee is kind of crystalized looking, all dehydration signs. The little to no bowel movements are signs too. And believe me, you can think you are nursing for hours, baby can seem content, and still end up with a dehydrated baby (it's happened twice to me!).
But if it looks like good old-fashioned wet pee, then no dehydration!
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but no bowel movement for I think it's 10 days can be perfectly normal in a breastfed infant.
I would just hold off on any concern for at least a few more days as long as you're getting enough good and wet diapers.
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Another way to tell dehydration is to lightly pich the skin up into a "tent shape" on the back of the hand, if it stays tented and doesn't go right back down, that is a sign of dehydration. That's how we knew to take dd in when she was a couple of days old. God bless you and sweet little Celia(that's what we were planning on for nickname for our little one, too, it sounds so cute and affectionate.)
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Okay, so she made up for it this afternoon - two really big poops! :) Yay Celia! LOL! Thanks for all of the reassurance.
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I'm glad she made up for it today.  I have to say that I would differ slightly from the blanket reassurance offered. In general we don't like to see newborns not pooping and going those extended times, like several days. It does become common in some breastfeed babies but more often seen with an older baby - say after 4-6 weeks. It can be a sign that a baby is not getting enough milk. You can get enough to stay well hydrated but not sufficient for caloric intake/fat. So with a baby who isn't pooping, especially a newborn it is important to have a good monitor of the weight gain. If weight gain is looking fine, then, yes, it can be a variation within normal.
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It's probably late to tell you about my experience, but it may help someone else who comes along this thread.
My youngest would go FOREVER without pooping. Probably closer to a month (no, I'm not exagerating). She wasn't overly moody or anything, was gaining weight, and peed TONS!
When I brought her to the doctor he told me that sometimes their pooping muscles just aren't strong enough so he had me give her a tsp of mineral oil every two days until she was going more often. I think I only had to give it to her 4-5 times all together. Worked like a charm. She poops now. She's not consistant, but she goes waaaaay more often then 1x every 3 weeks or so...
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MaryM wrote:
| I'm glad she made up for it today. I have to say that I would differ slightly from the blanket reassurance offered. In general we don't like to see newborns not pooping and going those extended times, like several days. It does become common in some breastfeed babies but more often seen with an older baby - say after 4-6 weeks. It can be a sign that a baby is not getting enough milk. You can get enough to stay well hydrated but not sufficient for caloric intake/fat. So with a baby who isn't pooping, especially a newborn it is important to have a good monitor of the weight gain. If weight gain is looking fine, then, yes, it can be a variation within normal. |
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For us too, this was our experience, baby was not getting enough milk. Our Dr, tried to reassure us how perfect breastmilk is. But when we noticed him start to loose weight, he was still peeing well.... For us, for our family it seems that not enough poops was not a good sign. Our babies are usually really big babies and double birth weight by 6-8weeks.
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What is the 'solution' for a breastfed baby that is not gaining??
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it depends on why Lisa
Nursing more frequently.. sometimes you get a sleepy baby that is just not waking frequently enough and "asking" to be fed often enough. Sometimes the day time feeding go well but you get a baby sleeping too much as night which is really hard on mom because it's so nice to get that sleep.. but baby may need to still nurse every 2-3 hrs at night and mom might have to set an alarm to be sure baby is doing so.
Sometimes you can have a fore/hind milk imbalance and while baby is getting enough fluids.. baby isn't getting enough of the richer/higher fat hind milk.. often poops will be frothy with this and less mustardy.. this can be "fixed" by nursing on one side only per feeding or longer on just that side (like for a 2-3 hour period you only nurse from one side no matter how often baby nurses and then switch to the other for the next 2-3 hrs).
You can also have a mother that may not be producing enough milk.. so there are herbs (mother's milk tea, alfalfa, etc) that encourage milk production and you need to support your body with reasonable nutrition and hydration and REST so that milk production can be increased. You can also be sure to switch off sides more to encourage let down (this is why you want to be sure it's not the fore/hind milk imbalance where you stay on one side longer to fix it)
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Lisbet wrote:
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First, we'd try to figure out why there isn't sufficient milk transfer going on. Is it a supply issue or a baby not being efficient with milk removal issue. Most likely the later from my experience with mothers and babies. Then treat issue accordingly - work to boost supply and/or work to improve suck. With a very experienced momma like you I know you are aware of supply and demand, increased nursing, herbal boosts, etc. That is what leads me to wonder about suck. A baby can spend tons of time at the breast and if she isn't nursing well won't necessarily get more milk.
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