Is it normal for 2 week old to go all day without dirty nappies?

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I'm rather worried that my 2 week old has suddenly got awful constipation. His last dirty nappy was at his 2.00 am feed this morning and since then his nappies have only been wet.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid? However, up until now every nappy has been dirty and some really full of the usual new baby runny poo (have had some nappy changes too where he has poo'd on us 2-3 times during change).

I have just swapped from breast to bottle feeding (another story) and am worried that the formula has made him constipated! However, he started formula on Thursday and it's now Sunday, although today is the first day that he's had no breast feeds at all (had last one late Saturday morning).

I know it seems particularly paranoid to worry about this, but you do tend to worry about everything when they're this new. I'm sure he's going to have terrible tummy ache soon

By the way he is feeding really well, drinking loads (and always has done, hence usually lots of very wet and very pooey nappies).

Thanks in advance for any advice or reassurance.

If he's weeing loads I wouldn't worry yet. Brfed babies do often go ages (up to 2 weeks) without poos, maybe he's still in transition.

i think he's ok for a day or 2 but get ready for the BIG explosion

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... prepare for a big explosion when it comes!!!

the switch from breast to bottle means his digestive system has to get used to it.. oh it will!

Make sure you have lots of nappies/wipes at the ready (and top tip.. from someone who has dealt with projectile poo.... avoid coffee mornings with mums who have'cream sofas' )

Good luck... am sure he will get moving soon!

agree with everyone else, fine, but there will be a big bang, normally up to the neck and down to the toes. Prepare prepare prepare. Good luck

My midwife told me she once asked a GP how long he would consider 'normal' for a newborn to go without a pooey nappy before he would be concerned and he said 10 days..! So I agree with the others...for the first few weeks of life dd only had one every 4 days (oh, if it were so now...)

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Thanks all - that's reassuring. I was just being paranoid after all.

In fact this morning he has finally produced a pooey nappy - absolutely full, but much more solid than has been (pastey rather than runny), so didn't leak . Poor old thing did seem to have to make a bit of an effort to begin with though - was grunting and straining, so think he was rather constipated.

Unicorn - loved your tip on projectile poo (in fact he did one of those on dh last week - had pooed twice on changing mat and dh cleaned each one up, then after had cleaned up did a projectile one onto his lap. Dh was annoyed that I just sat there laughing - well better to laugh than cry (too easy to do the latter in these early weeks).

Don't worry distracted. Dd (4 weeks) has just had her first poo since Wednesday; the one before that was last Sunday. They're pretty horrible to clean up (dh got tasked with it this morning!). Will hopefully get the chance to talk to you tomorrow when the older ones are at nursery.

This porblem threw me when I had No. 4. My other three had all pooed regularly and sometimes too copiously(!) but No 4 went days without pooing sometimes and it rather worried me at the time, but he was breast fed and I was told there could be very little waste from a b/f baby.
BTW Distracted, just because your baby grunted and strained (perhaps went red in the face?) doesn't mean he was constipated. It can be quite normal for a baby to do that. Think about yourself on the loo. Don't you ever strain or make faces? Maybe not! Perhaps I am revealing to much about myself here! Anyway, someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I think to be constipated, the poo has to be very infrequent and hard.
Congratulations and best of luck with your baby. This is the beginning of continuous worries and joys for you and your dh!