Infrequent Bowel Movements
Q: Is it normal for a two month old to have infrequent bowel movements?
A: Yes.
According to “What to Expect”… it is perfectly normal for a breastfeeding baby to not have daily bowel movements. It is even normal for a baby to have them every other day or even once a week. I looked up all these different sources on the internet and found that many other parents had the same issue with their children. So we were some what reassured. It had been about six days since Edith had her last one. Mommy even set up an appointment at Kaiser tomorrow if nothing happened… The only warning they gave was that it was going to be explosive…
They weren’t kidding. After holding up at the “train station” for six days, the train left the station this evening. There was just too much to handle in the size 2 diaper that Edith was wearing. Needless to say, she got a bath right after the incident.
The brown ring around her belly is not part of her shirt nor is it a towel or some special effects of the photo… That, my friends, was the overflow from the diaper. The pants were fine… it was just everything above the waist that wasn’t protected… her stool just overflowed out of the diaper and onto the shirt… it ended up being a two person job to remove her clothes and to wash her down.
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