constipation help please!

sunflwr2

I feel so bad for my daughter just turned 1 shes so constipated. A few weeks ago we transitioned to milk and now shes on 3 bottles of milk and no formula. I had no idea milk, eggs, and yogurt constipates babies! And of course thats what i was giving her thinking it would help. She cried the other day because it hurt so bad and there was a tiny bit of blood in her stool. What can i do to naturally loosen things up? Ive been giving her 6oz of water with 2oz of apple juice hoping that would help.
Poor thing!

memali26

Try cutting back on the dairy a little, and offer "p" fruits - pears, peaches, plums/prunes, pumpkin. If the apple juice isn't helping, try prune or pear juice. Make sure she's getting plenty of water. 

MesmrEwe

Straight up prune juice...  Pumpkin is good this time of year...  Start there...

Otherwise, if it's really bad consistently, I'd start getting the Ped involved, a ped gastro if you have to... 

avbliss

Prune juice helps, but I highly recommend going out a buying Dark Karo Syrup and putting 1-2 tsp into her milk. Call your Ped tomorrow to get exact dosage. It works with in 12 hours and helps immensely! Both of my girls used it for severe constipation at one point, especially DD2 who was on added rice formula for reflux, she had 1tsp added to every bottle from 3-5mos. Changing diet and doing the prune juice will help it from happening again, but the Dark Karo Syrup will help loosen what's already compacted. Good luck! Hope she feels better soon. It's horrible watching your LO in pain, especially if it's something that was avoidable. DD1 got it the first time because I was feeding her banana, yogurt, milk and cheese, not realizing that ALL was constipating. It happens to all of us at one point or another, but it won't last long.

christina_williams

My son was around 6.5 months old (EBF) and got constipated on a few occasions after we started giving him solids.  We tried all the "P" fruits and even tried Miralax without any luck.  Finally, we gave him 1 teaspoon of flax seed oil from Trader Joe's.  Worked like a charm, let me tell you!!!  And we haven't had any problems since.  It's also beneficial as a good source of omega-3 fatty acid.