Can the newborn have constipation?

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For new mothers, there are many things that they have not experienced in parenting, so they still lack parenting experience. Sometimes, if the newborn baby does not defecate for a period of time, it often causes the fear of the baby's mother, for fear that the baby will have constipation symptoms. Will the newborn be constipated? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Can the newborn have constipation?

In most cases, if it is breast-feeding baby generally will not appear constipation, because the water and nutrients contained in breast milk will not cause burning and dry symptoms in the baby's intestine, so there will be no constipation. To the newborn is more likely to appear is the symptoms of breast milk diarrhea, which is also physiological diarrhea, generally do not deliberately to deal with.

The constipation of newborns after feeding is mostly due to the lack of breast milk or insufficient milk secretion of lactating mothers, so that the baby needs to eat milk or stage formula feeding, which is more prone to constipation of newborns. This is because the milk is easy to catch fire or when the milk powder is fed, the milk powder deployment is unreasonable.

When breast milk is insufficient and breast-feeding substitute is added, we must pay attention to increase the amount of drinking water for the baby in order to remove the fire. And for milk powder feeding must be strictly in accordance with the stage of formula feeding baby, and pay attention to the deployment of water addition ratio, to strictly control, can not add too little water, too thick milk powder will cause constipation.

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Usually have time, you can also give the newborn appropriate massage. That is, when the newborn is lying on the bed, gently massage the newborn's stomach with finger pulp in a circle, which can accelerate the peristalsis of the intestines and help the newborn defecate smoothly. If the newborn has a big fire, you can go to the hospital to give the newborn a little clear fire treasure to drink in the water. Can also reduce the symptoms of constipation.