Constipation....help!!

Hi my baby is now almost 4 months old and she's on Nan HA. when her tummy battles to go I just give her 1ml of the safari prune juice and then not long after her tummy goes you can also try the treacle sugar. hope this helps

Thanks Lauz. I need to breathe!

We ended up at the paed today, he wants us to stop any meds she is on (any laxative and Nexium).

He told us to get NAN HA which is easier to digest and see how it goes.

We'll start this evening!

Good morning Celeste,

Firstly take a deep breath and calm down. It's pretty normal for formula fed babies to not go every day but to see them irritated because of being so constipated can be very frustrating.

I don't suggest water between feeds, but what you can do is add a teaspoon of treacle (dark brown sticky) sugar to the formula and see if that works.

Also have you tried massaging the belly clockwise start close to the belly button and spiral outwards. There is also the bicycle movement just to get things going as well.

Always best to get advice from Paed as well, good luck


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Our Baby (almost 3 months old) is constipated.

Our midwife advised us to change from NAN to Novalac IT - she pooped twice then nothing for 4 days.

We then used Lacson, she pooped and then nothing again for 5 days. We tried glycerine suppositories but that did absolutely nothing.

Our midwife told us to increase the Lacson dosage to 5ml twice a day. She had a small poop this morning.

I'm phoning our paediatrician for an appointment thus week.

Have you had any experience with baby constipation?

Has anything helped for you? Are we meant to be giving her water inbetween formula bottles? It appears that when we do manage to get some water down (she hates it) she makes a number two.

Worried mommy and daddy!!