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Hi Tanya. My little boy is 7 weeks and he has the seem problem. He pushes and grunts for a long time poo a little and then in half hour to an hour he is pooing again. I taught he was constipated or had dirreaha . Found out the stools were normal. I give him some grip water time to time. It helps bring down the stools and ease the pain, I find that moving his feet in a bicyle form helps. Putting his belly on my shoulder helps as well. Hope he feels better soon.

my son grunts and turns red like he's pushing but it's when i hear gas in his stomach or when he needs a burp as well. i don't think he's trying to push it out for that long of a time

I just think it is odd because he will do this every morning for about 5 hours. He has his last bottle at about 10pm and then about 6 hours later the pushing starts - there is definitely gas and he does pa__s it while he is doing this pushing thing, but he pretty much doesnt stop until he poops! The doctors say that he may just be a "pushy" baby - I was hoping to hear that someone else has a baby that "pushes" for 4 or 5 hours so that I would stop feeling that it is so odd!

Yes, my 4 week old daughter grunts and groans for hours on end as well, before producing any poo. She's not constipated either.

Has your doc said anything? Mine keep saying it is ok but I just think it is so odd!!

My doc said it was quite normal too. He gave me a med cant remember the nameand said to use grip water. Grip water works. Ok he gripping now and daddy is panicing (HA) :) Gotta run !!!

I have gripe water and it worked for my son. It has sodium bicarbonate, fennel and ginger in it and helps settle the belly. HTH