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Baby Not Poo'd For Five Days

by Bernie
(UK )

My 2 month and 1 week old has not poo'd for 5 days now. She did the same last week and poo'd on the 4th day, where it looked like a chunk of peanut butter.. in the meantime she gets real smelly gas and urinates like every 30 minutes or sometimes more :-) Any advice?

Baby Help Line Response:

Hi Bernie!

Is your daughter breastfed? In such case this is completely normal and you can simply sit back and relax this short period of very few dirty diapers. If she is formula fed and seems to be constipated (pain and hard stools), click here for some advice and remedies. But since you are saying that the poop is soft, my guess is that everything is just fine.

Hope this helps,

/Paula

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Baby Not Poo'd For Five Days

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Oct 03, 2009

Baby Not Poo'd for Five Days
by: Anonymous

Hi Bernie
My almost 5 month old has been doing infrequent poo over the last 10 days or so. He just went,and as you describe, was awful smelling and looked like a chunk of peanut butter (basically a more mucusy blob of peanut butter though)... have you found any explanation for this? My baby is exclusively breastfed. He used to go every day and the smell was text book like off yoghurt. This is pungent. I wonder could the smell be because it has been so long between poos? But why the mucus peanut butter blob? Cheers.