Constipated baby :-(

bikitybinx

N has been constipted since Friday.  I have been giving her pear juice, prunes and peaches but her stools are still small, hard and round.  How long until I should see some sort of effect?  She is miserable when she poops. Any other suggestions on remedies?

 

Edit: typo

MollySm

We had the same problem.  We kept up all those things, and gave fruit as finger food at every meal and after maybe 5 or 6 days it started to work.  She's much better now.  

preggersINschool25

We had a similar issue not too long ago and I'm thinking it took 3 or 4 days before we saw a difference. We did the same method you are doing.

Jeanine88

My dr also recommended putting Vaseline on a rectal thermometer and stimulating it that way. We never got to that point, so not sure how it works. Poor baby!

bikitybinx

Thanks.  I'll keep up with what I'm doing - I was thinking by now we'd have a few blowouts with all the juice and prunes I'm giving her!  I went a little overboard with the bananas this past week.  I'll be laying off those for a little while...

jmccall79

Yeah, I'd probably lay off too many bananas too.  I can always tell if Ian has had too many...his poo will be a little more solid than usual.  If I give him bananas I always make sure he has something 'green' that day.  But I do that with his food anyway...if he has something orange/white for breakfast, I make sure he gets green for lunch or dinner; just to balance the food.  I know that may sound a little OCD but I feel like there needs to be a difference in foods throughout the day, but that's just me.  Like, I wouldn't give him peaches for breakfast, sweet potatoes for lunch, and squash for dinner.  IMO, that's too much orange and not enough of a mixture.  Hope that makes sense...and it keeps him regular...we've never had constipation issues.  I don't know if it has anything to do with the way I do his food, but it works so I'm not going to change it, lol.