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Newborn Constipation
By dr.Ted | January 7, 2010
Does your newborn baby ever suffer from constipation? Normally a newborn is usually the same as us adults, always defecate every day. If the newborn has constipation, marked by several days the baby does not defecate. And if the newborn was more than three to five days without defecation, the baby will often fussy, crying and could not sleep quietly. But you do not need to panic because this is the natural things that are sometimes experienced by new-born baby.
In the first days of life, the form of new-born baby’s stools is soft, thin and dark green. Form of new-born baby’s stools is soft because the newborn drink only breast milk. Newborn faeces dark green due to dirt in the new-born baby’s body is still mixed with amniotic fluid. Later on your newborn baby will have regular bowel movements that are lighter in colour. Normally a newborn will have defecated regularly after the fifth day onwards in his life. If on the sixth day onwards your baby does not defecate for several days, means might be having newborn constipation.
Newborn constipation can be caused because you are changing the formula. Some milk formula has a high concentration of iron and this may cause the constipation. Usually constipation only happened the first week uses the new formula, because the newborn digestive makes adjustments with the new formula.
First aid you can do for newborn constipation is a warm bath. Bathe your baby, and then let the baby relax a while in warm water. You can gently massage your baby’s stomach when the newborn was relaxed. After a warm bath, dry the baby and give baby oil such as eucalyptus oil on your baby’s stomach while gently massage baby’s tummy. Then give drink warm water to your newborn baby in order to hydrate the baby and would also assist in bowel movement. Believe me after these things you do, and then your newborn will defecate immediately.
If you’ve done the steps above but your newborn is still not defecating, then you must immediately bring your newborn baby to the doctor.
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