4 week old baby

[Randommum1]

Hi
Look for some advice on my baby

Congratulations on your new baby. What advice are you looking for?

Aww, congratulations. Are you and baby doing ok?

Happy to help in any way I can. What's up?

My baby has a cough and I’m assuming he’s had belly ache as he’s been constipated today he managed to open his bowels once today but he normally has atleast 4 a day and he’s very unsettled.
He’s not a crying baby but at the moment he can’t wake up without crying I feel so mean.

But I was asleep with him before and I got a phone call and I dropped my phone it got my baby so I feel so bad I don’t know what it is that’s upsetting him
If it’s hurting because of the phone or if it’s cause he’s not well I jjst feel awful

My advice is to call 111, NHS helpline.
None of us here are able to help determine what could be wrong.
with such a young baby I'd seek help from a medical professional

Yes, definitely 111 as not pooing isn't ideal. Try not to worry about dropping the phone, where about on him did it land?

Agree with above, and any sort of respiratory change like a cough is worth double checking just with him being so young.

Get the cough checked if you're worried about it.

Babies can have irritable/crying days (or at least the 3 I've had seemed to have the odd off day now and again) so I wouldn't worry about that too much. Lots of cuddles and skin to skin will hopefully settle them down.

Re the constipation: of you're breastfeeding then the regularity of their poos can change. Mine went from frequent poos to pooing once a fortnight without being constipated. I think the change started around 3-4 weeks - the time between poos started getting longer gradually and by 3m it was around once a fortnight.

YouTube have some food tummy massage videos that can help of you're worried.

Hope everything is ok

@UserOne Pooing once a fortnight? That’s once every two weeks. Is that what you meant?

@Randomnum1 please call 111 as they will give better advice than anyone on here