Constipated 7 month old

Senior Member Joined: Jul 24 2005 Posts: 186

Hi, My seven month old is very constipated.
Any good advice?
Thanks

Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2007, 12:15 pm Post subject:

You can try glycerine suppositories.
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Senior Member Joined: Jul 24 2005 Posts: 186

He could make it just hurts him alot. any foods I should or shouldn't give?

Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2007, 12:25 pm Post subject: re: constipated 7 month old

Add a half a teaspoon dark corn syrup in his milk bottle - works like magic!

Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2007, 12:30 pm Post subject: re: constipated 7 month old

No bananas, no applesauce, no rice, you could give him prunes in the baby jars or even apricots. Also when you see that he's trying to make, while he's laying down, help him by gently pushing his legs back towards his shoulders.

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 2694

My dd was (and at 5, very often still is) ALWAYS constipated.

What worked:

8 oz of prune juice each day
maltsopex (sp?) - I think you could get this syrup in the pharmacy

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 07 2006 Posts: 3623

It's summer! LOTS of peaches & plums! (You could puree them for him.) Should I send you some? My 16 mos. old won't stop eating them (like 5 a day, easy) and we're starting to have the opposite problem.....

Oh, just remembered - also pears (they say the 'P' fruits!). I give my babies peeled soft pears whole and they gobble them down.