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This might be soothing-the comments which mention longer times, not the post itself.

https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-day-old-and-no-poop-for-16-hours

My first baby hardly pooped at all in her first few weeks - it felt like it went against everything I found in baby books or on the internet at the time (and I called the pediatrician about it more than I'd like to admit!)...but they reassured me each time that if she seemed comfortable, was peeing regularly and eating well, we were okay even if she only pooped once-ish a week (or even a less often than that, though I don't remember the particulars). My memories of her first few weeks definitely revolve around waiting for her to poop though...looking back, I wish I'd been able to see it as one of those things that can just look different from baby to baby, but it was hard to push the worry aside in the moment.

@Mrs. Marshmallow: congrats on the newest sweet baby! How is it going?

My younger DD had us worried with a lack of pees and poops in the early days. My milk took time coming in so we were triple feeding but baby spit up milk since her stomach was so small.

Our docs cared about wet diapers, not dirty diapers. I heard a lot of breast milk being a perfect food and might not create much poop. Our story came to a head after a day of triple feeding and supplementing w/ no diapers when we went to the hospital under docs advice - only to check the diaper when we got there and finally see what we needed to see.

Days are long, years are short (yadda yadda) - I hope your baby has started cooperating and things are smooth sailing for you!

this was an issue with both my second and my third. even though i had experienced it once before i still got concerned when it happened with my third because it's so uniform that they tell you at least one poop a day! but my pediatrician wasn't concerned at all and they started pooping more regularly after a while (there were definitely a few lengthy periods of no poops before they normalized). i would not worry as long as you are getting plenty of pees.