Newborn change in toilet habits

[Booboostoo]

DS is six weeks old, ebf with the addition ofvitamin D drops. He has done a lot (10 a day) of pooey diapers since birth, all property liquid yellow. For the last 30 hours he hasn't passed any faeces at all. His last diaper before that was a small amount of slightly been faeces. I have spoken to the doctor who said that bf babies can go up to a week with no faeces but I am worried about the change as such.

He is generally in an OK mood. Wednesday he was cluster feeding and yesterday he settled in for a huge seeing day. He has plenty of wet diapers, no fever, no vomiting . at night he does grunt and strain but he has done this from birth. He is passing gas.

It is a common age for bowel habits to change in bf babies. They can go a week or more without a bowel movement without it being counted as constipation

www.mother-2-mother.com/normal.htm#NormalStools

boo, all sounds normal.

There's a typo in your post I don't understand - 'been faeces', and huge 'seeing' day is prob 'feeding' day? But even not understanding those, I think there is nothing to worry about.

Your doc has confirmed all is well - time to relax about it? :)

Brilliant thank you both very much! The link is great thanks.

Autocorrect typos, sorry! That's what happens when you are trying to type, breastfeed and convince a three year old to go to school all at the same time! It should have been 'green faeces' and 'feeding'.

I do sound PFB don't I? And it's a PSB! The reason is that the doctor was asking me some odd stuff, e g am I eating enough fruit, so I just wanted to double check as people on here often have more bf knowledge.

He's just done a ginormous poo; it can be seen from the international space station.

Hmmmm......doc's question is a bit of a giveaway. You eating fruit will have no effect on the frequency with which your baby poos :( :(

However.....GPs are usually pretty good at spotting when a baby is normal and healthy, so it's good to have that reassurance.

That was my thought exactly. The doc is lovely but I am not sure how much she knows about bf (she has also advised not to drink orange juice to help with baby's reflux).

It was a telephone consultation so she never saw him.

Not drinking orange juice to help with reflux?

Oh dear.....that is crazy :(