Can Infrequent Bowel Movements Still Be Normal?
Since milk is such a nutritious substance, sometimes almost all of it is absorbed and there is little left to move along, and stools become infrequent. For example, some perfectly normal breastfed infants only go once a week. Other infants just have a slower (but completely normal) gut, so they also go infrequently. Prolonged, severe constipation can have a medical cause (for example, if the muscles in the intestine don’t work or there is some sort of blockage), but that’s a very rare occurrence, while infrequent, hard stools, on the other hand, are very common.
