Constipated Baby

Constipated Baby,  Normaly the baby's feces vary according to age. Starting with a greenish watery stool (meconium) in the early days postpartum. Furthermore usually after the first week, the baby changed its feces according to milk they drink. Feces of breast-fed infants are different from the feces of infants not breast-fed.

Constipation related to the nature of feces. When the hard stool consistency, volume and the relative lack of clay, generally more difficult than if it issued the baby stool is normal, that is soft, damp (moist) like toothpaste or a very ripe banana.

When a baby is called constipation? If in two days without a bowel movement. Normally babies defecate once to twice daily. During normal stool consistency and volume, a new bowel within 48 hours no problem. Considered normal if the baby's stools soft, damp (moist), volume (contains) is tough, and not too watery. Baby constipation is expressed in two days if no bowel movement, and the stool is hard, and clay.

Infants who consume enough breast milk are generally not a problem with the amount of waste water and rare cases of constipation. Likewise, in infants who have received supplementary food (solid food breastfed), more rarely suffer from constipation, as long as the food contains enough fiber (dietary fiber). The first solid food in the form of milk porridge. Intestines to work harder when there is already a daily food content (bulk). We know the staple food of infants initially liquid (breastfed), and not the food (which is solid, it contains).

Constipated Baby

Constipated Baby

Constipated Baby

Constipated Baby