Prune juice for constipation (FF babies)

daisy_dueller

Hey mamas! DS is having some poo problems, which we are trying to correct with prune juice right now...if you used it as constipation relief, how much did you put in the bottle, and how often? We put 1 tsp of juice and 1 tsp of water in his bottle last night, and again this morning, and plan to do it again tonight, and tomorrow morning until he starts going more regularly...right now it's every 3-4 days, and it's quite formed...poor guy.

jackielambert

what we did was put 3 oz of water, 1 oz of prune juice and 1 scoop of formula in a bottle once a day. this helped my DD a little, but she was only going once every 2 days, so now she's on 1 teaspoon of miralax a day and that is working wonders for her!

RaeAnt

We did NOT combine the juice with the formula. Our pedi said to do 2 oz water morning and evening. DS didn't like the plain water so I added just the tiniest of pear juice for taste, usually by bedtime he had a movement. if the water didn't work, then she had mentioned straight baby prune juice.

Culkinator54

We started this with DD when she was REALLY backed up and did .5oz juice with .5oz water (no formula with it) twice a day.  When she started going 2-3 times a day, we took it down to once a day in the evening (so my mornings were less complicated), and now she goes once a day, sometimes twice.  When she consistently goes 2 or more times a day, we'll either reduce the night one or cut it out and see what happens.