Constipated baby :(

Hi,

My DS has been having trouble passing his stool. I just started cereal, he was fine with rice cereal. but i just started oat day before yesterday. I prepare it with 1tsp prune paste 1 scoop formula spoon of cereal with 2 ounce of formula. it did the same with oat cereal but he has been constaped. I see the stool but it is hard for him to pass it since the stool is so hard. i tried corn syrup also in 1 oz of warm water with 1 tsp of corn syrup, but it has not helped. He cries in pain and has cuts around his anus area from pushing. I feel so helpless. I finally gave him a glycerin suppository but its not suggested with the pediatrician. it also didn't help much he passed only a little bit . what do i do ?

Do you know anything that helps with constipation that i can give him at home that helps.

 

We had "issues" too. Our ped said to do 1/2 ounce pear juice to 1/2 ounce water up to 3 times a day. That seemed to work for us. What did your Ped say to do?

 

I have always used corn syrup and water or a suppository. The corn syrup takes about 12-24 hours to work and the suppository a few hours. When did you try all of this?? My twins have always had constipation, it's genetic I believe <_< and it isn't easy watching your little ones hurt so much :hug:

 

I feed straight prune baby food when needed. Hope he feels better soon!

 

:hug: I'd call the pedi and see what s/he suggests. Maybe add a little more water to the formula he drinks, warm bath, tummy massage, helping him if he is struggling to poop (not pleasant, but might help). :hug: :hug: :hug:

 

If it had already sat in we did prune juice in their bottles and warm baths. To keep it from happening they got prune baby food (about 1/3 of a container) each night with their "dinner". Once we started doing that we didn't have many more problems.

 

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I have always used corn syrup and water or a suppository. The corn syrup takes about 12-24 hours to work and the suppository a few hours. When did you try all of this?? My twins have always had constipation, it's genetic I believe <_< and it isn't easy watching your little ones hurt so much :hug:



I know i was in tears watching him in pain i feel so helpless in this. The pediatrician said to use corn syrup i put prune paste in their cereal. I started this yesterday it was 2nd day of oatmeal cereal which i think i will stay with rice since they were fine the week of rice cereal. Suppository i did yesterday too he did a little bit but not much. Doc sugg not to use suppository but he was in so much pain i said hell with it. But i don't want to make it a habit of supp since babies have a hard time learning how to push stool out, he was in so much pain i couldn't see him in pain. I didn;t know that corn syrup takes that long. thank you for that info i am such a lame mother