Constipation or just no poop
My baby is 5 months old and is going through his second episode of no poop for over 7 days. Last time it happened we used a suppository and it all came right out; the glycerin hadn’t even melted inside yet. Right after, the same day, he pooped again. Both times the poop was normal paste like consistency and color.
After that he went 3-4 days without poop again until we used laxative drops. And the poop that came out was again normal consistency and color.
Since then he hasn’t pooped again for over 7 days. He’s all happy and chirpy. Feeding well. It’s also summertime here so it gets quite warm.
Now we tried the suppository again and 5-7 mins literally nothing came out. Instead I feel we just traumatized the little baby. He kept straining and going red because of it.
Now all of this is making me wonder if he isn’t producing any poop at all given that he’s exclusively breastfed and the summer heat is making him sweat out and pee more of it than turn it into poop. Just really looking for some validation at this point because the paediatricians here don’t seem to think out of the box and keep pushing the same old treatments all the damn time.