When the baby is found to poop for several days, the mother must be anxious and worried! Is the baby constipated? The old people around you will tell you that as long as the baby pulls out yellow soft stool, it's normal. It's the little guy who's saving his belly. Why does the baby save his belly?
It's normal for a baby to have a belly
"Save belly" generally appears when the baby is 2-3 months old, which refers to the change of the baby's stool law. The baby's defecation will change from 2 ~ 6 times a day to once every two or three days, or even once every seven days. During this period, the baby eats and sleeps normally without obvious crying, the weight gain is normal, and the stool shape is normal. "Save belly" shows that the baby's digestive ability has been improved. At the same time, it also shows that the mother's breast milk quality is quite good. Mother can rest assured!
PS: after adding supplementary food to the baby for 6 months, the baby's intake of dietary fiber and other components will also increase, and the law of defecation will change from once a few days to once or twice a day, which will last until the baby is two or three years old.
The difference between "stomach saving" and "constipation"
1. Different stool forms
Save belly: normal yellow soft stool, no induration
Constipation: the stool is hard, dry, bloody or mucus
2. Different defecation feeling
Save belly: no pain during defecation
Constipation: decreased stool frequency, difficulty in excretion, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and fecal mass can be touched in the left lower abdomen
Baby "save belly" insists on abdominal massage
Although "saving belly" is normal, it is also important to help your baby establish normal physiological defecation. Mom doesn't think it's easy for him to pull one day for more than ten days, so let him go. She should insist on helping him with abdominal massage! The method is very simple: take the navel as the center, turn the palm clockwise around the navel eye, massage 10 times, and do abdominal massage 3 times a day!