Hi,
So my 3 week old has been a bad pooer since day one. She’s had a dirty nappy once every 5-6 days (after the meconium). When she does go it’s a normal consistency/colour.
Anyway so last week she was really struggling with it, she was straining and pushing for days. She wouldn’t settle for more than five minutes.
We took her to the gp but as baby was quite settled during the appointment I don’t think she really understood what it’s been like.
She prescribed lactulose, but told us that it was basically for our benefit as baby is fine it’s just our peace of mind.
After reading the leaflet we decided against giving it to her and eventually she had a poo 36 hours later.
That was Saturday, and we’re back to square one again now. She did not sleep at all yesterday or last night because of the struggling.
I just don’t know what to do.
I changed my diet abit (added fruit juice, dried apricots etc) to try and get things moving for her but I don’t think it’s a case of the poo being too hard, and I’ve stuck to this new diet all week so it’s obviously not making much difference.
I was hoping once she’d gone a few times she’d get the hang of it but apparently not!
Any experience, advice or just next steps would be very much appreciated