Yea, having babies does all kinds of not so lovely unexpected things to your body.

You have good suggetions thus far. I can't recall if I saw taking an OTC stool softner. Colace. Not peri-colace. The peri has the stimulant. The Colace will just make things not so much stressing. Which irritates things.

However, I don't know if this is recent discussion with the baby being little, or a later thing brought up??? If an infant that you are breast feeding anything passes through your milk to the baby. If so, make sure you check with your doctor first.