shortage of dirty nappies?

[dueinnovember]

Hoping some mumsnetters can help. My daughter is seven weeks old and for the last 3.5 weeks has only had dirty nappies every 4-6 days. Prior to this we'd have a few every day. She's exclusively breastfed at the moment, is putting on weight ok (following curve just below 50th percentile) and seems ok in every other respect. Health visitor says not to worry as its just the way she is, but this isn't particularly helpful and doesn't explain why or what's happening. She often has quite short feeds (10-15 mins)but I think I'm producing enough milk as there's a very strong let down and if I'm not careful it'll squirt a couple of feet away. (sorry about the detail!) Very early on my midwife who'd seen her feed at home on quite a few occassions said not to worry about the length of feeds as she could hear how much she was gulping down very quickly. If anyone has any ideas about what's going on I'd love to know. Many thanks from a paranoid mother. PS If anyone thinks I'm not getting my fair share of dirty nappies I have my two year olds to deal with which are dreadful!

Breastfed babies often don't need to go very often; once every 1-3 weeks, even, in many cases. It's such an efficient food source, very little goes to waste! Quite clever of Mother Nature, eh?

My exclusively BF DD hasn't had a dirty nappy for at least a week, her farts smell rancid and she's getting tummy ache now. Surely that's not right is it?

After the first weeks, a gap of several days is totally normal, dueinnovember. It's to do with the maturing of the gastro-colic reflex, rather than the way the body uses up all the milk, though (but that might be part of it as well, I agree).

thanks everyone. tiktok does it take long until it settles down and should I expect this to continue for a while? RGPargy the farts are horrendous aren't they. If I don't know what she was up to I'd think she'd been drinking lager and eating curries all night.

Oh god dueinnovember, i swear that's what she's been doing!!! DD is almost 6 weeks so i'm guessing my DD and yours are both out on the beer together!

DueinNov (surely time for a name change now? ) my ds once went nineteen days without a poo. I was terrified actually, I thought something was seriously wrong. I actually ended up giving him a spoonful of pure orange.

But when he finally went... OMG it went everywhere.

We had a shitty situation this morning (pun intended)

Our 6 week DD is poo-minus 10 days and counting (having gone a week previously). With everyday that passes I keep thinking that it's going to be more and more spectacular.

Heck, for the sake of our washing machine, I might just put her in disposable nappies until it happens!

See, that's why i use disposables. The thought of all that poo to scrape off does my guts in!! I wouldn't mind using reusables for wet nappies for yuk @ dirty ones!