My baby girl is just about to hit her 1st birthday, and in the past few months she's been getting constipate. She strains to poop and sometimes even cries as she does it. It gets bad enough that we have to peddle her feet or massage her belly to get her to do it, and it's like she's giving birth.
Yesterday was her first poop in 2 days and she cried and screamed the whole time. It was very hard and I can tell she didn't get it all out, she's still straining and gassy and normally has a telltale "explosive poop" after she's been constipated for a few days.
We've tried the infant glycerin suppositories, but only twice when she was painfully backed up.
We've done warm prune juice, pear juice, cut out all rice, wheat, and bananas, been keeping her hydrated as much as possible and done everything I can think of.
I hear constipation is normal when babies first transition to solid foods, but I can't imagine it's this painful! Im a first time mom and Im not sure what to do
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For us, I found that having baby cereal wasn't an issue if we mixed applesauce & a bit of prune juice in every time. I also mix pear puree with almost everything she eats. To be honest though, I'm not sure our tricks worked or if she just needed to adjust and then it was smooth sailing. Some kids need prune juice everyday to stay regular.
Good luck mama.. hopefully it's just an adjustment issue.
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1) She gets a yogurt everyday now that she is older
2) Pear/Mango puree for breakfast everyday when she was first eating solids (she still gets it occasionally)
3) Probiotic drops
4) Prune/apple juice if nothing else is working but I find it makes her crazy gassy
5) Avoid apples, bananas and cheese.
My LO struggles with constipation unless she has 2 tablespoons of prune purée a day. If prunes didn't work I would suggest offering her more. If I give my LO 1 tablespoon it doesn't work. If I give her an entire jar of it she has 3 poopslposions that day. It was kind of a guessing game on how much to give her for a little while. We discussed constipation with her doctor and she said to try prunes or plums and if that didn't work to try Miralax. I hope your sweet babe feels better soon!
I didn't buy the baby juices I used full on prune juice or pear juice. Stick with the P foods pear purée was great along with the prune juice.